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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? Kit Items – 2

One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items (Part 2): Q1 – What is the financial transaction types when I assemble a kit and when I disassemble a kit? Q2 – When I assemble a kit in which tab of the View Inventory Transactions action will I find the financial transaction for the kit item? Q3…
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Quiz Answers – Kit Items

One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items: Q1 – What is the best description for a kit item? A – Items used with a commodity group of PPE or CLOTHING B – A kit of parts on a rotating asset C – A set of items which are grouped together so that it can be…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Kit Items

One small topic, 10 questions on Kit Items (Part 1): Q1 – What is the best description for a kit item? A – Items used with a commodity group of PPE or CLOTHING B – A kit of parts on a rotating asset C – A set of items which are grouped together so that it…
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Quiz Answers – Rotating Items – 2

One small topic, 10 questions on Rotating Items (part 2): Q1 – What happens when you update the specification attribute values on an item marked as rotating? Answer – The attribute value is updated on all locations and assets that reference the rotation item and that have the same attribute. This is one of the characteristics of…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Rotating Items-2

One small topic, 10 more questions on Rotating Items (part 2): Q1 – What happens when you update the specification attribute values on an item marked as rotating? Q2 – Can you change the classification of an asset that references a rotating item? Q3 – What is the purpose of the two YORN fields on the…
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Item – Add Items to Storeroom

In the Item Master application, we had recently created item AJE11 as part of showing how the item’s description is generated using the classification and the attribute values that form the item’s specification. As you can see, we never added the item to a storeroom, the Storerooms tab shows no records. The action “Add Items…
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Item Classifications – Generating Descriptions in Multiple Languages

Contents When an Item is classified the description of the item can be generated. The same item can have multiple secondary languages. The question arises, whether the description in the secondary languages is also generated and what is its format? I have split the article into two, the first focuses on the description generation, the…
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Quiz Answers – Rotating Items

One small topic, 10 questions on Rotating Items: Q1 – All these descriptions are true, to some extent, but which is the best description of a rotating item? A – An inventory item where the balance in the storeroom is tracked individually as serialised assets. B – An inventory item with moving parts that rotate around…
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Assets – Issue Items from Storeroom

The action to “Issue Items from Storeroom” was added to the Assets application because in some industries, particularly in the IT industry, activity is performed in the context of an asset, a PC, laptop or server. The IT technician who is installing software wants to be able to issue items from a software storeroom, while…
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Item and Locations

Contents On the Locations application there is a Rotating Item field. This field allows you to reference an item or tool that is marked as “Rotating?”. A location cannot exist in a storeroom, as can an asset, so the term “rotating” in this case means a reference to a rotating item, rather than rotating stock…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Rotating Items

One small topic, 10 questions on Rotating Items: Q1 – All these descriptions are true, to some extent, but which is the best description of a rotating item? A – An inventory item where the balance in the storeroom is tracked individually as serialised assets. B – An inventory item with moving parts that rotate around…
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Condition Enabled Items

Contents The use case for a condition enabled item is to be able to reference one item with multiple condition rates, rather than having multiple items to manage where the description and cost distinguish one item from another. For example, a new pump costs $250, the same pump but refurbished might be worth $200 or…
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Lot Items

Contents A lot item is one that has a shelf life, paints and chemicals often fall into this category. From an inventory point of view, you would want to track lotted items to ensure that the lots with the closest expiration date are issued before those that have just been purchased and have a much…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Item Stock Categories

One small topic, 10 questions on Item Stock Categories: Q1 – What are the Stock Categories? Q2 – In which Inventory module applications can you define a Stock Category for an item? Q3 – Where in Maximo would you define the Default Stock Category for new items? Q4 – What action would stop you from being…
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Quiz – How well do you know Maximo? – Item Statuses

One small topic, 10 questions on Item Statuses: Q1 – Can you delete an item? Q2 – Which item status(es) is incorrect, PENDING, WAPPR, ACTIVE, APPROVED, PENDOBS, OBSOLETE, CLOSED? Q3 – There are 5 item statuses which one from the list above is missing? Q4 – Item statuses exist at the Item and Inventory level, but…
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