You can use the consumption-relevant counter-reading recording for vehicles to:

• Enter the counter readings (such as number of kilometers traveled or operating hours) for vehicles
• Enter the consumed operating supplies (such as fuel or oil)

• If necessary update material documents for vehicle consumption
• If necessary determine rules for the average consumption and therefore control the entered consumption

Using the entered data the system calculates the consumption values of you vehicle.

The consumption-relevant counter-reading recording is part of the Fleet Management of Plant Maintenance (PM) and of Customer Service (CS).

• In Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service you have defined the rules for the consumption control under Define Tolerance Check for the Consumption Control.

The vehicle consumption data is updated to a corresponding measurement document in the Plant Maintenance Information System (PMIS) when you save, as long as you have made the necessary settings in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Configure Measurement Document Update.

You can use the vehicle consumption analysis to evaluate the corresponding standard information structure (S114).

You can call up the consumption transaction of a vehicle and enter a gas station. Depending on the way you enter, various functions are available to you:

You can see all consumption-relevant counters for the given vehicle, these are separated according to consumption and activity counters. Using indictors it is clear which functions have a counter (such as consumption-relevant counter, primary fuel or distance counter).

For these counters you can update the counter reading and, for example, enter the fuel consumption quantity or the distance traveled or the operating time. For the activity counter the last current counter reading is provided for information.

For the creation of counter readings you can activate consumption control this means the system checks the entered consumption data to see that the entries are within the permitted value ranges. The allowed range is determined from the previously entered values with the help of the average consumption.

The consumption control only checks the counter reading of the counters that are defined in Customizing of Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Calculation Methods for Consumption Values for this vehicle. In most cases fuel and mileage are controlled. All other entries are accepted without checks.

In addition to the functions available to you when entering without tables you can update material documents when you enter with gas station.

If you enter the consumption for a vehicle using the counter reading recording (measurement reading entry) then this refers to a material withdrawal from the location ‘gas station’ for the relevant operating supply. For each consumption counter you can select additional operating supplies for which material documents are automatically generated when saving. You determine the material that the system should update, in Customizing (see prerequisites).