External Scheduling in Maintenance Planning (SAP Library

External Scheduling in Maintenance Planning

Use

You use this function in maintenance planning in your company to plan field services using an external scheduling system.

Prerequisites

You have performed the following settings in Customizing:

You have assigned the function module PM_ORDER_EXTERN_SCHED_DEFAULT to the fixed value S in Customizing under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Maintenance and Service Processing ® Maintenance and Service Orders ® Scheduling ® External Scheduling ® Configure Communication.

You have set the indicator Release immediately in Customizing under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Maintenance and Service Processing ® Maintenance and Service Orders ® Function and Settings for Order Types ® Configure Order Types.

You have set the indicator Automatic scheduling in Customizing under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Maintenance and Service Processing ® Maintenance and Service Orders ® Scheduling ® Set Scheduling Parameters.

Features

If you generate an order from the maintenance plan, the SAP System calls up the function module PM_ORDER_EXTERN_SCHED_DEFAULT.

Depending on the Customizing settings, scheduling automatically takes places in the external scheduling system. The external system looks for a suitable date and returns this to the order in the SAP System.

The SAP System saves the order and calls up the function module PM_ORDER_EXTERN_BOOK_DEFAULT.

The date is automatically posted in the SAP System and in the external scheduling system.

There is no dialog, and there are no proposed dates from which you can choose a suitable date.

External Scheduling in Maintenance Planning