Equipement master

[former_member681145]

Hi,

Can you tell me wt is the relevence in Equipement master creation in ECC?

Pls explain detail.

Regards

Ishikesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

EQUIPMENT MASTER is the Master data used for Plant maintenance

The Eqipments used in Plant maintenance were Machinery, PRTs, Customer Eqipment, devices.

You can create Equipment master in the Transaction code IE01 .

please revert back if you need more details.

santosh

[former_member681145 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thnaks for your replay,

Wt is the relation ship between sale order creation and equipment master ?.

Can we consider equipment master as material in sale order ?

Regards

Ishikesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi

equipment master is like that,

for example if your maintaining the vehicle master to transport the goods to customers. then u can define the vehicle in equipment master.

with the t-code IE01 you can define vehicle as equipment, about its capacity and any contract with truck for transportation etc details can be maintained.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

An Equipment is single physical object which has Warranty, So Equipment contains the Materials which were used for replacement of Equipment.

So Equipment is used as an object while creating the Service notification and if any part is replaced we can create the Purchase order for it (material) to replace for Equipment.

An equipment can also be linked to a material by indicating that the equipment is made of the material (as a generalization - construction type) and/or indicating that the equipment is actually a material (material plus serial number in the serial data tab).

Hope you understood the difference between the Eqipment and Material

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ishikesh,

Equipment is an integration object that creates a link between SD and CS. In SD you are selling materials (Computers) say 100 quantities to a customer or different customers. Since the material codes for all the pieces are same, you need to maintain serial number to identify each piece ie. Material + serial number combination which is unique across the client.

After sales, you need to provide service to each object either under warranty or chargeable basis (after warranty), in some cases Service contract(AMC).

Need to maintain warranty and department / persons responsible to service the piece for material + Serial number. In SAP, material + serial number combination is treated as Equipment (object) with all CS related data like Service plant, Sales area, warranty period, accounting information, so called Equipment master.

Whenever there is a complaint / service request from a customer for an Equipment (material +serial number), the service processes may start with notification, service order, spare parts replacement/repair etc... would be carried out. Moreover, Serialization profile would automatically create an Equipment number for each material + serial number.

In CS, the Equipment is one of reference object to provide service to account cost / revenue after sales.

Hope this explanation clears your doubt. If you need more information, you may post this sort of queries in EAM forum.

Babu

[former_member681145 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply

I need to have some more clarifications.

If material + serial number which are the combination of a equipment-

My doubt is materials A,B, and C which are computers and serial numbers are1122,1123,1124.Then what will be the equipment master.?

While I am creating sale order for A,B,C I can assign serial number but what should I do and where I can assign equipment which is by creating IE01?

Regards

Ishikesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Suppose you have material computer monitor, 15 inch.

You represent it as material C-15. Now material is 1(C-15) but same material is sold thousands of time. So there will be many equipment records (IE01).

Suppose you sell 5 C-15. In the Sales order you maintain material C-15 with qty 5.

Then you enter 5 serial no.

Now you create 5 equip. rec (IE01) & in each you enter respective serial no.

Also in each IE01 you also maintain the Sales order no.

That is how you can link the two.

If you require more help then explain you scenario in detail. will help you further.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ishikesh,

You are delivering material A, 3 qty with serial numbers say 1001,1002,1003 and materialB, 4 qty with serial numbers 1001,1002,1003 and 1004.

Material A, 1001 and Material B 1001 are different peices delivered to a same customer or different customers. An Equipment number (#100001) for Material A,1001 will get generated in System automatically provided you have maintained serial number profile accordingly. Same is applicable for material B 1001 (Eq # 100002). Therefore, Material + serial number combination is unque across client.

You need not create Equipment manually (IE01) in the system.

Just open the Material + Serial number in IQ02 and click on Equipment view button, you can get further business views maintained for the Equipment category (Prerequisite: PM - Technical object - Equipment configuration ) that are relevant to CS.

This Equipment (Material + serial number) maintaining the history of your material + serial number. Moreover this Equipment is having partner functions like SH, SP, BP etc... for further transactions in CS related sales.

Hope this throws some more light. Revert back if any more details in this regards.

Note:

These sort of queries are expected in EAM forum for quick response and appropriate solutions. Hence you may close this thread in SD and open a new thread in EAM. In fact, I saw this query in SD while I was searching some SD related solutions.

Babu

[former_member681145 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks to all

Thanks BABU for your descriptive answers.

Regards

Ishikesh