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 Creating a Service Notification for Advance Shipment

Prerequisites

If you want a particular type of sales order to be proposed when creating a service notification, you can define this as a default value in Customizing for service notifications.

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Service management Next navigation step Service processing End of the navigation path and then Start of the navigation path Notification Next navigation step Create (special) Next navigation step <Notification type> End of the navigation path .

  2. The notification header is displayed.

  3. Complete the necessary data such as sold-to party, equipment, problem description, and tasks that the service technician may have to perform.

  4. If you enter a piece of equipment as a reference object, the data for the sold-to party is entered automatically. Later, you will also be able to use the structure list to select the spare parts to be shipped, and copy them to the sales order.

  5. You must create a service order to be able to send a service technician to install the spare parts at the customer’s. To do this, choose Start of the navigation path Service notification Next navigation step Service order Next navigation step Create for notification End of the navigation path (see Creating a Service Order for Advance Shipment ).

  6. You must create a sales order to be able to send spare parts that the customer is to install himself.

    – If you choose Start of the navigation path Service notification Next navigation step Create sales order Next navigation step Standard order type End of the navigation path , the system copies the sales order type that is preassigned in Customizing, and branches directly to the sales order.

    – If you choose Start of the navigation path Service notification Next navigation step Create sales order Next navigation step Advance shipment End of the navigation path , you go straight to the dialog box where you enter the advance shipment parameters.

    You can overwrite the sales order type. Enter a shipping condition and an accounting indicator where necessary. Choose Continue .

    Confirm the following dialog box with Continue .

    If you have entered a piece of equipment as a reference object, the structure list is displayed. Here, you can select the materials that you want to ship as spare parts.

    Choose Select to copy the selected parts to the sales order.

  7. In the sales order, enter the spare parts or check the parts that were selected using the structure list.

  8. Complete any data required and choose Back to return to the service notification.

  9. Save the service notification.

Result

The system saves the sales order together with the service notification. You can use document flow to see the assignment of a service notification to the sales order.