Overview of Maintenance Organization
A maintenance organization is a typically an inventory organization in which the maintenance and repair of the assets is carried out.
To enable an organization for maintenance, you must set up the organization as an inventory organization, and then categorize the inventory organization as a maintenance organization. You can then set up the plant parameters for the organization to determine various functionality of the organization. Besides the common tasks applicable to all Oracle applications, Oracle Maintenance requires additional setup for plant parameters, lookups, work areas, resources, and work centers. The setup tasks are performed in the Setup and Maintenance work area. You can also set up the work areas, resources, and work centers in the Maintenance work area. A maintenance organization must have at least one work area and one work center defined.
For more information regarding the setups, refer to the Using Maintenance chapter of the SCM Cloud Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.
The following shows the preferred order in which the work areas, resources, and work centers are to be set up:
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Create the required work areas for the maintenance organization. Every maintenance organization has a specific region allocated for performing the maintenance activities. This region is referred to as work area.
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Create the resources that you require to perform the maintenance activities. A resource can be of type labor or equipment.
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Create the required work centers and associate each of them with the appropriate work area. A work center is a maintenance unit that consists of people or equipment.
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Allocate the resources to the required work centers. You can also assign shifts to the resources and maintain a work center resource calendar for each resource.