Order Release

Use

When you have completed the planning with all the entries you wish to make, you can release the order. The employees on site cannot start with the defined activities until you have released it.

You can also release orders as soon as they have been created. This option is available for orders that the system has generated automatically, in other words:

  • For orders that have been created using a maintenance plan (maintenance call)

  • For orders that have been created from a notification by choosing Start of the navigation path PM Notification Next navigation step Functions Next navigation step Order Next navigation step Create End of the navigation path or Start of the navigation path PM Notification Next navigation step Functions Next navigation step Order Next navigation step Create for Notification End of the navigation path.

Integration

Releasing an Order Within Maintenance Processing

You cannot print shop papers until you have released the order.

Since, on many sites, the two work steps release and print shop papers always follow each other directly, you have the option of triggering both these steps with one single function in the system. See Putting an Order in Process.

Note Note

If you have activated the business function Enterprise Asset Management Part 7 (LOG_EAM_CI_7), you can also print shop papers for orders that have the status created or technically completed, for example. For more information, see Preprinting and Reprinting Maintenance Orders.

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You must also have released the order to be able to carry out the following activities:

  • Withdraw material

  • Post goods receipts

  • Create time confirmations

  • Complete task

Note Note

In many cases, technical completion is an integral part of performing and completing the work. Entry of the technical completion does not, however, depend on whether the order has been released or not.

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Prerequisites

If you want to be able to release orders as soon as they have been created, a system administrator must have set the Release immediately indicator for the appropriate order types in Customizing.

Features

When you release an order, its status is then REL. You cannot execute the functions above unless this status has been set.

When you release an order, the system checks the availability of materials and production resources/tools as well as the required authorizations. At the latest when the order is released, the material reservations are MRP-relevant and ready for withdrawal, and the purchase requisitions are created.

Furthermore, the following is valid for refurbishment orders:

After a refurbishment order has been released, you can no longer change the following data:

  • The total quantity of spares to be refurbished and their unit of measure on the header data screen of the order

  • All the entries in the Refurbishment section on the header data screen of the order

  • The item for the spares to be refurbished in the component list of the order