Service Entry with Reference to an Operation (Biblioteca SAP

Service Entry with Reference to an Operation

Purpose

You can use the time sheet to enter services, which are posted to the Purchasing component of Materials Management (MM-SRV), or to the Plant Maintenance/Customer Service (PM/CS) or Project System (PS) components in Logistics.

This means that you can post services entered in MM-SRV with reference to an order operation or network operation.

You can enter services performed by both internal and external employees in the time sheet and therefore detail order or network confirmations.

Nota

You can create different data entry profiles for internal and external employees. Only external employees should be able to enter data in the fields for entering a purchase order.

Process flow

External employees enter their working times, specifying purchase order details and for a particular order or network.

If there are entries in the Sending purchase order and Operation fields, the system recognizes that a service has been entered with reference to an operation.

You transfer the data to the target components MM-SRV and PM/CS or MM-SRV and PS.

The costs are updated to the order or network based on the service entry. To prevent activities from being allocated twice, the system transfers the data without an activity type to PM/CS or PS.

The system updates the status of the operation automatically (partial confirmation, final confirmation) when the confirmation is posted.

If a service in MM-SRV is not approved, this has no effect on the confirmation in PM/CS and PS. In this case, the data record should be changed or deleted using the time sheet.

The advantage of this procedure is that cancellation records are transferred automatically to PM/CS or PS. You should consider the effects this could have on other target components however.

As an alternative, you can change or cancel the confirmation in PM/CS or PS.