Understanding PeopleSoft Maintenance Management Inquiries
PeopleSoft Maintenance Management provides the following online inquiries:
Asset Maintenance History inquiry.
The asset maintenance history inquiry displays the cost of maintenance for an asset. If the asset has a parent component, you can choose to roll up the child asset component cost to the parent asset.
Asset Maintenance Cost Inquiry.
The Asset Maintenance Cost Inquiry component enables you to analyze work order and non-work order related asset maintenance costs for assets based on a specified time frame.
Work Order History inquiry.
The Work Order History inquiry component enables you to view the estimated and actual cost of maintenance by business unit and shops. You can use this information to examine maintenance costs, plan budgets, and define cost anomalies. This inquiry is also helpful in identifying the general percent variance on the work order cost spread out over business units and shops.
Work Progress Tracking inquiry.
Work Progress Tracking component identifies which work order tasks are behind schedule. To determine if a work order task is behind schedule, the system calculates the difference between the scheduled end date and the actual end date, the scheduled start date and actual start date, both or either of those dates. This enables the users to identify which work order tasks are consistently behind schedule and why so that they can remedy the cause of delays.
Purchasing and Pegging inquiry.
Use pegging to associate specific supply, purchase requisitions, or purchase orders with work order demand. This essentially reserves the supply for that specific work order. Users can review the Purchasing and Pegging inquiry component to see if the supply is pegged and the work order to which it is pegged.
When items are in short supply, organizations peg higher priority work order demands to specific supply to ensure that those demands are satisfied. This also enables the organization to schedule work orders more accurately. The Purchasing and Pegging inquiry component also displays all of the associated requisitions and purchase orders that may exist for a given work order task.
Chargeback inquiry.
You use the Chargeback inquiry component to view costs that are generated based on work order transactions that are charged back to another general ledger business unit, department, account, and alternate account instead of the general ledger business unit that is specified in the work order business unit. The costs for labor, inventory and so on, go through PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses, PeopleSoft Inventory, PeopleSoft Purchasing, and PeopleSoft Payables and are then sent to PeopleSoft Project Costing, which calculates the chargebacks based on specific rules defined. Then the costs are sent to the general ledger business unit, department, accounts, and alternate accounts, which is different from the general ledger business unit specified in the work order business unit.
Capitalization inquiry.
The Capitalization inquiry component enables you to view costs associated with maintenance and repairs in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management. Because the costs of these repairs can affect the value of the asset, you can set up rules in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management that flags specific assets so that PeopleSoft Project Costing applies certain rate types that look at the work order costs used to capitalize the asset. PeopleSoft Project Costing also generates capitalization costs.
Crew Schedule Inquiry.
Using the Crew Schedule inquiry component users can view crew schedules using a date range. This inquiry enables users to search and view crew schedules across schedule periods, including all future and past schedules for a given crew. Users can drill down to the work order component to review parts availability, the requirements for each resource, and the work order resource schedules in detail.
Failure Analysis Inquiry.
Failure Analysis inquiry provides users the capability to select, group and analyze stored failure tracking data for a variety of useful metrics. Users can discover trends and relationships affecting future failure occurrence, asset reliability, and maintenance and repair effectiveness measures.