Understanding Line Types for Rental Management

You set up actions to control how the system processes related orders that are associated with rental contracts. To apply a group of actions that are relevant to a rental contract, you use the Line Type and Action Association program (P54R03) to set up line types. Then, when you enter the rental contract in the Rental Management system, you specify the line type to use for the rental contract. The system passes the actions associated with the specified line type to use for the rental contract.

You can set up a line type specific for a business unit, and with specific ship to or customer address number. Lines types that you set up without specifying business units, and ship to or customer address numbers, can be used for all business units.

You specify the line type to use when you enter the rental contract detail information in the Rental Contract Detail program (P54R11). The P54R11 program searches the Line Type and Action Association Header table (F54R03) for a matching line type, along with the Business Unit and Customer or Ship To field combination in the following sequence:

1. Line Type, Business Unit, Ship To

2. Line Type, Business Unit, Customer

3. Line Type, Business Unit, blank

4. Line Type, blank, blank

For each line type, you can specify the billing method to use: recurring contract billing with price from the Item Master table (used typically for rental items); one-off contract billing with price from the Item Master table (used typically for sale items); and one-off sales order billing (used for sale items, and billing happens though the sales order system).