Procedure documentation Maintaining Inter-Departmental Relationships Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Hospital ® Basic Data Administration ® Hospital Structure ® Organizational Structure ® Inter-Dept. Bed Asgmt ® Maintain.

    2. The list of existing assignments appears.

  2. The following editing options are available from this list:

Now proceed with the following steps in relation to the processing option you are using:

Create New Assignments

Display and Change Existing Assignments

Delete Existing Assignments
  1. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The assignment detail screen appears.
  1. Select an entry, and then choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The assignment detail screen appears.
  1. Select the entry to be deleted, and then choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

The assignment detail screen appears.
  1. In the Org. Unit field, enter the identification key of the OU to whose beds patients can be assigned by OUs of other departments. In the Asgmt By field, specify the identification key of the OU with inter-departmental assignment authority.

You need to have created these organizational units beforehand.

In the Max. Number of Beds field, you can specify the maximum number of beds on the care unit to which the department may assign patients from other departments. You can display this specification in the bed scheduling function of Care Unit Management. When you assign patients, at present the system does not check whether the maximum number of inter-departmental beds has been reached.

The system uses the validity period common to both organizational units as the default validity period for the assignment. You can further restrict the validity period of the assignment.

You can specify sort numbers in the Sort Order field. These are taken into account when the list of free bed locations is output (see example).

  1. Change the data as required, and then save.

If you have changed the validity dates, a dialog box containing the changed time intervals appears. Confirm the changes by choosing This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

If you have changed the OU assignment, the system deletes the changed entry and creates a new entry. It issues a warning message accordingly. Confirm this by choosing This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

You return to the list of existing assignments.
  1. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

A confirmation prompt is issued.
  1. Save the data.

You return to the list of existing assignments.

The detail screen provides a navigation function to enable you to edit individual assignment records quickly and directly. To go directly from the detail screen to the detail screen of the next entry, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text. To go to the detail screen of a particular entry, specify the data of the required entry in at least one field in the Table Entry Selection group box. Then choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

To display the master data of the assigned OUs, you can double-click (choose) the required OU on the assignment detail screen.
  1. Confirm the delete operation.

The system deletes the entry and returns to the list of existing assignments.