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Returning Items under Warranty
Read more: Returning Items under WarrantyI was asked the other day what the process would be if I wanted to return a purchased item that was still under warranty. My answer was it depends on how long ago you made the receipt and whether it had been invoiced, but the actual process of return should be the same. Later I…
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Day Hire of Rental Tools
Read more: Day Hire of Rental ToolsSomebody asked me the other day how to handle the day hire of rental tools in Maximo. You have Lease/Rental Contracts but that would be too much set-up for a one-off rental of a tool, this is after all a purchase, besides Lease/Rental Contracts work with rotating items, and hence would require the creation of…
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Terms and Conditions in Maximo
Read more: Terms and Conditions in MaximoThe Terms and Conditions application will be found in both the Purchasing and Contracts modules. It is used to create a library of terms that are used in purchasing documents; Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Requests for Quotations, Contracts and Invoices. Terms and Conditions are also used if you have Maximo for Service Providers installed, in…
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Maximo Application Maps (7 of 9) Contracts Management
Read more: Maximo Application Maps (7 of 9) Contracts ManagementMaster Contracts A Master Contract is used to associate multiple other contracts for the same vendor, or to have a single place where terms and conditions are entered that are common to the contracts raised with the vendor. You can create another type of contract from the Master Contract and the new contract appears on…
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Maximo Application Maps (6 of 9) Procurement and Invoicing
Read more: Maximo Application Maps (6 of 9) Procurement and InvoicingThe Maximo supply chain process for external purchases can start with either a desktop requisition (Create Requisition) or a work order. From here a Purchase Requisition (PR) and then a Purchase Order (PO) is created. In between PR and PO there could be a Request for Quotation (RFQ). There are two Receiving applications. Receiving is…
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Receipt Tolerances
Read more: Receipt TolerancesA receipt tolerance is applied to a PO line and during receiving if the quantity or amount exceeds the PO line quantity or amount plus the tolerance then an error message will be received. Prior to Maximo 7.5 when this function was added a warning was received if there was an over-receipt of materials or…
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