Understanding Work Orders

PeopleSoft Maintenance Management manages the maintenance and repair of a capitalized asset. Maintenance and repair of an asset may require parts from PeopleSoft Inventory. Work Orders from PeopleSoft Maintenance Management can place demand for items into a PeopleSoft Inventory business unit.

Inventory item quantities located on a work order from Maintenance Management can be:

• Committed

  When a work order part is committed to inventory, then the item is placed in the demand fulfillment (IN_DEMAND) table, displayed in the Product/Item Availability page, and used by the Create Replenishment Requests process. When a work order line is committed there is no reservation or allocation; only visibility of the demand line in PeopleSoft Inventory. A work order line is committed to PeopleSoft Inventory based on the inventory commit rule found on the work order. Work order demand lines containing both soft-reserve items and non-soft reserve items can be committed to the demand fulfillment table.

• Reserved

  For soft reserve items only, a work order line can be reserved in PeopleSoft Inventory using the:

  • Online reserve process from the Work Order pages in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management.

  • Reserve Materials process in PeopleSoft Inventory.

  • Shortage Workbench in PeopleSoft Inventory. The workbench can also unreserve stock on a work order line.

  • Complete Putaway process when pegged supply is received into the inventory business unit.

  • Online reserve process in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management can automatically run after a work order has been created by the Run Projections or Run Preventive Maintenance processes. This is based on the WO reserve rules.

Note:

Work order demand lines do not follow the same fulfillment process as demand lines from sales orders or material stock requests. Work orders use different fulfillment pages to pick and issue stock.