Create Maintenance Organizations Using Quick Setup
The Manage SCM Common Components Quick Setup defines all required tasks and many commonly required tasks for the Maintenance Management functional area.
Using the Quick Setup, you can define the following:
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Calendar
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Units of Measure
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Inventory Organization
A maintenance organization is an inventory organization that is enabled for maintenance activity. To define a maintenance organization, you must create an inventory organization that is set up as a maintenance organization.
The steps to define a maintenance organization using Quick Setup are:
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In the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.
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Click the Setup button.
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Click the Quick Setup icon in the Facilities functional area.
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On the Set Up SCM Common Components: Calendar page, select an existing calendar or create a new calendar.
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Click the Next Button.
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On the Set Up SCM Common Components: Units of Measure page, select the unit of measure classes.
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Click the Next button.
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On the Set Up SCM Common Components: Inventory Organizations page, create an inventory organization by selecting from or entering values for the following fields:
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Management Business Unit
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Existing Master Item Organization
Note: You can also create a new master item organization by entering values for Master Item Organization Name and Master Item Organization Code fields. -
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In the Create Inventory Organizations region, click the Add icon to add a row for creating a new inventory organization.
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In the new row, select from or enter values for the following fields:
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Organization Name
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Organization Code
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Location
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Additional Usage
Note: To set up the organization as maintenance organization, select Maintenance from the Additional Usage drop-down list. -
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Click the Submit button. A confirmation message is displayed.