Performance-Based Equipment Documents

Definition

A performance-based equipment document contains the following information:

  • actual number of hours worked per activity type and equipment

  • operating hours of equipment

    for a specific usage site.

Use

Depending on your company’s requirements, you can define whether you want performance-based equipment documents (PBE documents) to be entered as daily documents (multiple item entry), daily documents (single item entry) or as weekly documents. You can make this setting in Customizing for ETM under Start of the navigation path Operations and Functions Next navigation step Document Types Next navigation step Define Document Types Next navigation step Details Next navigation step PBE dsply var. End of the navigation path

Recommendation Recommendation

If you want to be able to use all three types of document, you must create three separate document types, each of category PBE document , and then assign the appropriate PBE display variant to each of the three document types.

End of the recommendation.

Prerequisites

  • The PBE document must have been defined as a document type in Customizing

  • It must be of document category: PBE document

  • The equipment that is entered in the PBE document must be:

    • Performance-based equipment

    • Equipment item

    • of document category: PBE document

  • If you want to use the measuring point functions, two measuring points/counters must have been created in the equipment master record for each equipment (an actual measuring point and a calculated measuring point) Appropriate settings must have been made in Customizing

  • Equipment cannot have been entered as an item more than once in the same PBE document with the same ship-to party

  • No Inventory Management check takes place when you enter PBE documents

Structure

  • Header data

  • General data for each item

  • Data relevant to billing for each item

Example of a weekly document. recipients are 100050, 100101, 100102; equipment is 300000005 and 30000006

Header data for the PBE document

Period

01.02.1999

03.02.1999

External document number

123

Personnel Number

Recipient

Equipment

Item Data Performance Document

Item

Pers.Nr.

Recipient

Equi.

AT

UM

01.02.

02.02.

03.02.

Measuring point

WBS element

10

100101

10000102

E

H

3.000

1.000

1200

ESL004

20

100050

30000006

E

H

2.000

2.000

1310

ESL003

30

100050

30000005

E

H

4.000

1309

ESL003

40

100102

10000102

S

H

1.000

1.000

1200

ESL002

Integration

For more information, please see: Measurement Documents and Measuring Points and Counters (PM-EQM-SF-MPC) .