Create Maintenance Organization

Explanation

Use this activity to create a new maintenance organization. A maintenance organization has several different functions. For example, employees are connected to maintenance organizations for organizational purposes. Also, maintenance organizations are defined on PM actions, work orders, work task templates etc, to indicate who is responsible for executing a work order, or a task on a work order.

For each maintenance organization, you can enter an hourly rate which is the internal personnel cost related to using a resource from this maintenance organization. This rate is used to estimate the personnel cost when preparing a work order, a PM action or a work task template, if resource group is not specified. The hourly rate for maintenance organization is also used when reporting time on a work order and when a Resource Group is not defined on the time report line.

You can also connect maintenance organizations to each other to form structures. 

Prerequisites

• The site information must exist in IFS/General Data for Inventory and Distribution.
• Users should be linked to sites in IFS/General Data for Inventory and Distribution.
• Work Time Calendars (in state Generated) should be defined in IFS/Application Services.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, maintenance organizations will be created which are site dependent. 

Window

Organization Basic Data

Related Window Descriptions

Organization Basic Data 
Organization Basic Data/Maintenance Organization

Procedure

1. Open the Organization Basic Data window and click the Maintenance Organizations tab. Create a new record (F5).
2. In the Maint. Org. field, enter an identity for the maintenance organization.
3. In the Description field, enter a short description of the maintenance organization.
4. The user's default site is displayed in the Site field. Use the List of Values to change the site, if appropriate. The List of Values will only display the sites the user is connected to.
5. Enter the work time calendar identity in the Calendar ID field. Use the List of Values to select a suitable value.
6. Optionally enter in the Belongs to Maint. Org. field the maintenance organization to which you want the maintenance organization in the Maint. Org. field to be connected to. Use the List of Values to select a suitable value. 
7. In the Rate/h field, enter the hourly rate that is to be charged for the maintenance organization. The rate is given in the company's currency.
8. Save the information (F12).