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   <Header>
      <Title>Installation Group, Service</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2779817">
         <Level1>Installation group</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <AimSection>
      <Paragraph>An
		Installation
		group is set of serialized items that have the same
		location and are owned by the same business partner. Grouping serialized items
		into an
Installation
		group enables you to maintain them collectively. Installation
		group help you to relate multiple objects for a
		particular customer, site, or contract.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You can also define an
		Installation
		group as a location for a group of objects. The key
		data include the location details and service center details of an
		Installation
		group. The other details serve only as defaults for
		the lower-level objects.</Paragraph>
   </AimSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>An
		Installation
		group is at the highest level in the bill of objects
		and includes header information for all the objects that belong to the Installation
		group, such as the business partner, location, and
		calendar. You can register the specific installation
		group (installed base) bought by the
		customers.</Paragraph>
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      <Paragraph>To include the serialized items or physical breakdown
		structures, you can include the item or top item in the Installation
		group lines linked to the Installation
		group.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <ConceptSection>
      <SectionTitle>Defining Installation
		groups</SectionTitle>
      <Paragraph>You can define an
		Installation
		group and its structure manually. Alternatively, you
		can generate the Installation
		group from service BOMs, purchase orders, sales
		orders, and project work breakdown structure or element structures.</Paragraph>
      <ExampleSection>
         <SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>For example, you can define the following Installation
			 group:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem>All computer hardware in a particular building</ListItem>
            <ListItem>An automobile or a truck</ListItem>
            <ListItem>A production machine, for example, a CNC operated milling
			 machine</ListItem>
            <ListItem>An air-conditioning unit in a large building</ListItem>
         </List>
      </ExampleSection>
   </ConceptSection>
   <ConceptSection>
      <SectionTitle>Linking Installation
		groups</SectionTitle>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>You can link the Installation
		  group in one of the following ways:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>Link the Installation
		  group to a business partner to designate the Installation
		  group as an external Installation
		  group</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Link the Installation
		  group to a work center or department to designate the Installation
		  group as an internal Installation
		  group.</ListItem>
      </List>
   </ConceptSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>Installations,
		Service</RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>Serialized items, Service</RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>