In this blog I want to describe a new feature which is already available via the traditional GUI and will be available in a future release via the Web User Interface in Enterprise Asset Management.
Creating follow on orders – what is behind it?
While inspecting a piece of equipment the technician discovers a defect. He has to confirm the results and his time for the inspection, but he has also the task to document that there is a follow on activity necessary. That this activity was related to an inspection is of very high interest for the maintenance manager. Therefore we created the new functionality to create follow-on orders. You can use this function to create maintenance orders as follow-on orders for an order or order operation.
When you create a follow-on order, you create a relationship to the preceding order or operation and you can display this relationship in the document flow.
You can create follow-on orders directly (transaction iw31), when changing or displaying an order (transactions iw32 and iw33), or when creating a confirmation (transaction iw41).
You can display the relationship between the preceding order and the follow-on order in a hierarchical structure.You can find more detailed information via this LINK .
This functionality is part of EhP7 Business Function “LOG_EAM_CI7” and do not require any additional license on top of the existing enterprise foundation license.
A direct access to more information on these new EAM features is available via the innovation discovery tool. You can access the toolhere.
This functionality is delivered with SAP enhancement package 7 supportpackage 7 it has been downported up to SAP enhancement package 4
See SAP Note 2115977