PAM

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

In Pool Asset Management, can we perform all requests starting from vehicle request to cost booking? At present we are using Zdevelopments for performing vehicle request and maintenance orders.After implementing PAM, can i be able to perform all these in standard transaction? Can any one provide me the steps involved in PAM?

Regards,

Sibin

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What is ETM(Equipment and Tool Management)? Is it a separate module or is it a feature available in ECC6? What are its advantages?

Regards,

Sibin

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ETM is separate module.

Its having functionality of Equipment Rental to Customer. It will enable option capturing the Equipment Rental request, capturing the usage of equipment at Customer site & billing the customer based on the usage of equipment.

Search in google, you will get more information about ETM.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Masheswaran,

Thanks for your reply. Since ETM is a separate module we are not going for it. But can you provide some features available in Asset Pool Manageent? Can we book equipments based on Activity types in APM. Can you please any documentation regarding this?

Regards,

Sibin

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Have a look at SAP Help link.

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/en/0b/5ad2c9e2f249abad4df1479243a001/frameset.htm

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Maheswaran,

I have gone through the document and found out that for PAM, each equipment should be defined in a pool. Can we define same equipment in different pools? In our case same equipment will be available in different WBS. At the end of month we need to create utilization orders for this equipment with different activity types(Usage rate will be different for different activity types). Is this feature available in PAM?

Regards,

Sibin

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I think its not possible to define the same equipment in different pool.

If its not frequent shift from one WBS to another WBS, then it should be changed then & there if the equipment is shifted from one pool to another pool.

Also I don't think, creating WBS as a pool will be good option. Create a pool using different criteria & while settling the cost, select the appropriate WBS based on usage.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Maheswaran,

In our case an equipment number can be deployed in different projects under different wbs elements. There are also 3 different rates maintained in Activity types of this equipment. So how can we implement this scenario?

Regards,

Sibin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

If the Activity price is based on WBS, then you can create different operations with different Activity Price.

So that, each operation wise cost can be settled to different WBS. Check for Operation Level Costing (OLC) feature.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Maheswaran,

Thanks a lot for your inputs. Actually we are creating activity types in KP26 and assigning this to equipment number in CR01 transaction codes. Later in IW31 we are preparing orders by mentioning Work center and activity types. In our case Work center and Equipment numbers are same. In settlement rule we will select either wbs or cost center. Presently we are doing this manually for all equipments. So after implementing APM, can we do it automatically?

Regards,

Sibin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I think, you get confused with PP Work Center & Maintenance Work Center.

Equipment & PP Work Center can have same code. But Maintenance Work Center is different from PP Work Center & Maintenance Activity types will be assigned in Maintenance Work Center for Labor cost.

In Maintenance Order, Maintenance work center will be selected & corresponding activity types will be selected. Based on that, Labor cost will be calculated.

While maintaining settlement rule, either define the settlement receiver manually (with different WBS or Cost Center) or make it automatic using user exit IWO10027 User exit: Generate user-defined settlement rule.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Maheswaran,

We have configured activity types similar to that of labor cost.If we are giving 10 days for a work center, system will calculate utilization cost by multiplying activity type rate associated with this work center and number of days. Will the same settings work fine for PAM? Suppose if I had created a pool and assigned 10 equipments under it, can I transfer these equipments to a different pool and make work orders for these 2 pools separately?

Regards,

Sibin

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Can we change the status of Pool equipments? For eg: if the equipment has not worked in that particular job for few days, can we set status as off road or surplus so that cost cannot be charged against it. Is it feasible to create pool based on functional location?

Regards,

Sibin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Charging Cost is based on the Actual Time Confirmation. It is not dependent on the status of Equipment.

You can create Pool for Functional Location (If you maintained Pool Category for the Functional Location)