Procurement of Services: Processes

In addition to their own workforce, many firms now employ external service providers to do work of various kinds. This may be due to a number of reasons: for example, their own staff may lack either the capacity or the qualifications to perform certain tasks.

This section describes the business processes available within the application component MM External Services Management for the efficient procurement of externally performed services:

You can specify yourself the cases in which the basic process with all steps is to be used and the cases in which it makes sense to omit certain steps in order to save time.

Procurement of Services: Basic Process

Accelerated and Simplified Processes

Procurement via Maintenance Plans (PM Plant Maintenance)

Getting the Service Provider to Enter Services Actually Performed

Procurement via Invoicing Plans (Rental, Leasing, Part-Payments)

Procurement Using Blanket Orders (for Low-Value Items)