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Need specific information on Inventory Utilization

From: Travis Herron (2012-04-30 16:16)

I'm not using Maximo 7 yet, so I'll preface this by saying I'm no expert on the subject. But this is what I get from reading that document:
In Maximo 6.x and previous, when an Item was reserved on a Work Order's Planned Materials, it was treated like it was already gone. So if you had 10 widgets on the shelf, and 3 were reserved, the Reorder process acted as if there were 7 on the shelf.
Now in 7.x you have the choice of a Hard, Soft, or Automatic Reservation.
Hard reservations act much like Maximo 6.x reservations. It treats that inventory as good as gone (except in 7.x it looks like you can change the Required Date; 6.x it automatically set the Required Date to "now" if ordering from a storeroom, or you could change it if Direct Issue from Vendor). More on this below, at the end. . .
Soft reservations are not so. It's kinda like just a reminder that you might use it. I see this as useful in the following scenario: Say you have a dorm (I work at a college, so that's where my mind goes) with 100 rooms, and there's a PM to check all the toilet flappers. So, maybe you make a Soft Reservation for 100 flappers. This will tell the repairman which part he needs, and will help speed up acquisition of these if it turns out they are needed, but it doesn't automatically order enough to cover 100 of these. It may turn out that you only need to replace 5 of them. If it automatically ordered 100, now you are stuck with 95 you didn't need right now.
Automatic reservations are kinda right in the middle. You have to choose a required date. So it starts out as a Soft reservation, and you have until the Required Date to figure out if you need them and how many are actually needed -- or to cancel the reservation entirely. After that date, the reservation becomes Hard and is "effectively" removed from Inventory.
I **ASSUME** the logic would be:
--If reservation type is APSOFT, then it does not care what Lead Time is. It isn't going to try to reorder it.
--If reservation type is APHARD, then it will check to see if the reserved item is needed (Required Date) within TODAY + LEAD TIME. If so, it is going to get ordered. More specifically, if it is a HARD reservation that is Direct Issue, it should look at TODAY + REORDER LEAD TIME (supplied either at Reorder runtime if done manually, or in the Cron Task Parameters for automated reorder). If it is a HARD reservation ordered from a storeroom, it **should** look at TODAY + INVENTORY LEAD TIME + ADDITIONAL REORDER LEAD TIME.
--If reservation type is AUTOMATIC, it will look at Lead Time. It starts by treating the reservation like APSOFT. Then it monitors for when TODAY + LEADTIME (I presume using the definitions of LEADTIME I've laid out in the previous paragraph) > Required Date. When that happens, it changes the reservation to APHARD. I believe this matches up with what Arden posted earlier.
And of course when I try to test this out on IBM's preview site, the site is not working correctly. It's not letting me change the status of a work order. So I hope this helps and I hope it is right.
Travis Herron
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> Thanks, but this document doesn't give much information of value. What does, "...this reservation type is not time sensitive" mean? What logic does the InvResResTypeUpdateCronTask use to determine if it should change APSOFT to APHARD?
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From: ron_bryant (2012-05-01 08:33)

Has anybody worked out a process / procedure in Maximo 7.5 to charge the repair of a repairable spare to the Asset Location it came from, not to spares inventory? We have a business that wants repairable spares coming out of inventory to be issued at no value and the cost of repairing/replacing the broken item to go against the asset where it came from in the field. In other words, the Asset in the field gets actual cost, not inventory cost.
Also, has anyone work flowed or automated the creation of work orders and equipment moves necessary to complete the repairable cycle?
Any ideas?
Ron Bryant
IT Business Consultant
Plant Systems & Controls
Cargill
Linkedin Profile<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldbryant>

From: rick.mccallum (2012-05-15 21:59)

Hi Ron,
We have setup a process here that when the 'rebuild' item is issued from inventory, a child work order is auto generated by maximo (you could just be sent an email on issue and then create it yourself) and the rebuild stock item is auto returned and transferred to a fictitious 'rebuild' storeroom (this has its own account and therefore at any time yourself or the accountants can see what stock (costs) are in repair.
The auto generated work order is a child of the work order the part was issued from (the main work order can be completed when the job is finished and the child can stays open) and all the repair costs are added to this child work order. At the point the rebuild is repaired then the person managing the rebuilds can inform stores to transfer the rebuild back to its normal stores location and then the child work order can be completed.
This has worked for us (version 6 and soon 7.5) for many years, the auto generation of child work order and return / transfer of stock item is a customisation but this whole process could be done with configuration and user input.
hope this helps and if you require any more detail then let me know
regards
RickMac from down under
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, ron_bryant@... wrote:
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> Has anybody worked out a process / procedure in Maximo 7.5 to charge the repair of a repairable spare to the Asset Location it came from, not to spares inventory? We have a business that wants repairable spares coming out of inventory to be issued at no value and the cost of repairing/replacing the broken item to go against the asset where it came from in the field. In other words, the Asset in the field gets actual cost, not inventory cost.
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> Cargill
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Need specific information on Inventory Utilization

From: Michael Hanscom (2012-04-30 14:12)

From: phoner13 (2012-04-30 14:25)

From: Travis Herron (2012-04-30 16:16)

From: ron_bryant (2012-05-01 08:33)

From: Jagan Rajan (2012-05-01 07:26)

From: rick.mccallum (2012-05-15 21:59)