Purpose

The amount of activity that is performed is settled for equipment. Delivery and return delivery is settled for materials.

The system generates documents and postings automatically during ETM settlement of equipment activity and material deliveries. This ensures that ETM mass data can be processed successfully.

Organizational structures in ETM are determined in accordance with (1) the providing party (equipment) and settings for the PM order administrator, for example, and (2) the account assignment object to be debited in the recipient master record. (You can make posting rule settings in Customizing to determine this).

Process Flow

The system separates settlement of activity and delivery automatically into internal cost settlement and external customer settlement (joint ventures) during the ETM settlement run.

Since ETM uses a providing and debited party as a base for calculations, additional posting rules have been defined that control debiting and crediting of the account assignment objects for each party. If required, these posting rules can be automatically redirected (per condition type) to account assignment objects (for example, collective cost center) other than those that have been defined in the equipment master record and in the recipient/customer master record. For further information on this subject, please see the appropriate documentation in the Implementation Guide (IMG).

Price determination for settlement purposes usually takes place using equipment specification catalogs. However, it can also be based on price lists and prices that have been entered directly in the equipment master record.

Result

Generated SD orders.