Different plants not permitted for installation/Dismantling

[Former Member]

Hi friends

The client is doing the supply and servicing the equipement for patients. Always central office receives the equipment from supplier and sent to the branches.All the services are carrying by the nurses/ drivers.

However when the equipment fails or damages they sent the equipment to repair shop(parent company). In fact repair shop location (space), technicians, engineers are coming under parent company role (different operation) . The spares are supplying by the service plant for repairing. If the material is required for repairing work they will inform to sister concern (service plant) to receive the material.The engineer/technicians are planning scheduling the repair jobs. These group of people only working for repairing tasks not for thier own plant jobs..All the expenses (consumption, manpower) want to book against the service plant .Every month sister ocncern is paying some amount to parent company for this task.

Now you tell me is it required to have seperate planning plant or it will come under the service plant ?

Actually I was set two planning plants and tried to install the repaired equipment to repair shop functional location. However the system is issued the error as "Different plants not permitted for installation/dismantling". Since previously the equipment was under service planning plant and not accepting repair shop planning plant. Every time dismantling of equipment from functional location, removing maintenance plant, planning plant is not recomended to install the equipment on repair functional location. The reason is that , users are very very few and daily so many equipments are going for repair shop.

Please tell me how to map this business scanario?

Regards

Thenna

Edited by: thenna arasu on Nov 29, 2011 12:48 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please clarify my queries.

1. How many companies you have defined? (I guess, it is 2)

2. What is need of 2 different company codes?

3. Service plant is coming under which company?

4. Is Service plant responsible for service & spare parts?

For your installation problem

As equipments are linked with maintenance plant, you can't install that in different plant. First change your maintenance plant in the equipment & install that.

Else, check this solution:

1. Create only one company, planning plant & maintenance plant.

2. Create the customer site as functional location.

3. Assign the equipments to respective functional location.

4. Maintain user status profile for the equipment

5. Maintain the status as equipment at customer site & equipment at repair work shop

6. In case of equipment at repair work shop, restrict the business transactions by double clicking that user status & setting Forbidden option for the required business transactions.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you mahesh.

SAP is already implemented in parent company and thier line of business is cylinder , gas manufacturing. Sister plant is handling the home care services. The repair shop is dedicatedly operating for service plant and nowhere else doing parent company job.

1. There is one company code for home care.

2. No 2 company code

3. Service plant is coming under

4. Yes.

If the planning is carrying by the different plant then need to create planning plant right? In our case persons are in parent company pay role and they look sister concern jobs only. Also they will report to sister concern about the jobs.

We dont like to use user status.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

As there is only one company code, create only one planning plant common to parent plant & sister plant (common maintenance plant for both. So maintenance planning plant & maintenance plant are same & only one). Create functional locations for the customer location & workshop.

If equipment has been received for repair, dismantle from customer functional location & assign to workshop functional location. So no need to change maintenance plant as well while installing to workshop functional location.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

For inventory tracking, equipment installation tracking purpose we are having different plants (branch which supply,service the equipment) under service plant.The same will be applicable to repair shop.

But there is one issue I am facing with this process. Actually the functional location is available for each plants and maintenance plant value also maintained. Now while installing the equipment to specific plant functional location the system is issuing the error. In fact the equipment master is generating automatically from serial no and doesnt have any maintenance , planning plant value. The fields are in blank only..

How to come out of this issue?

Regards

Thenna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As you have rightly said about inventory, which is plant/Storage location based, the link is established when equipment is created in background for that material.

This could be the cause of error message(!) which is correct as per SAP.

James Prabaharan

[Former Member]

While creating Equipments automatically from delivery, plant & planning plant details will not be updated automatically. That should be done either manually or using some BAPIs.