Create Deferment Request – A summary of the activity

The “Create Deferment Request” activity allows you to defer work order tasks allocated to a work center. The work center planner may have to defer some non-mandatory work units due to various reasons such as resource constraints, flying schedules of an aircraft or workload of an execution center. You can defer a work order task based on time such as the number of days, or based on parameter values such as the flying hours, engine hours etc.

Each deferment should be accompanied by an appropriate reason for deferring and requires approval from an authorized person. After creation, the deferment request must be authorized. However, if the “Authorization of Deferral” system parameter is set as “Not Required” in the “Set Options” activity of the current business component, authorization is not required. On approval of the deferment, the work unit is moved into the “deferral list”.

Deferment request status

• Fresh: The status of the defermet request when created.

• Cancelled: The status of the deferment request when cancelled. You can cancel a deferment request in “Fresh” status.

• Confimed: The status of the deferment request when confirmed. You can confirm a deferment request in “Fresh” status. This status indicates that the deferment request is ready for approval.

• Processed: The status of the deferment request after it is approved or rejected by the visit planner. The work order tasks which are referred in the deferment request, will have the status as “approved” or “rejected” as the case may be.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

What you can do in this activity

Select visit package and work order / task to create deferment request

Modify deferral limits for a work unit

Select visit package and work order / task to create deferment request

You can search and select the visit package in order to select the work orders / tasks in it, for creating deferment request.

• Use the “Select Visit Package” page, to search and select the visit package.

• Use the “Select Work Order / Task(s) page, to select the work orders / tasks in the selected visit package.

• Select the “Create Deferment Request” link in the “Select Work Order / Task(s)” page, to create the deferment request for the selected work order / task.

Modify deferral limits for a work unit

You can specify the deferral limits for a work order task, before deferring it. You can specify time based and usage based deferral limits for a work order task. The task will be deferred based on the deferral limits specified here.

• Select the task in the “Create Deferment Request” page.

• Select the “Edit Deferral Limit” link at the bottom of the page.

• Use the “Edit Deferral Limits” page to specify the time based and usage based deferral limits for the selected work order task.