Selecting maintenance material request for modification

You can select a material request and modify its details. Tell me more.

Select the “Edit Maintenance Material Request” link under the “Hangar Work Order” business component.

The “Select Maintenance Material Request” page appears.

The system displays the following field:

Date Format

The format in which the date fields are displayed. This format is displayed from the "User Preferences" business component based on the login user ID. In case the format is not defined, the system displays the date format from the “Enterprise Modeling” business component by default.

Enter the following fields in the “Direct Entry” group box, if you know the exact material request number for which the details are to be modified:

Material Request #

The material request number for which the details are to be modified (Alphanumeric, 40).

Select the “Edit Material Request” link provided alongside, to modify the maintenance material request information.

Note: You cannot modify a material request that is in “Authorized” or “Cancelled” status.

To search for a material request

Enter the following in the “Search Criteria” group box, to search for a maintenance material request. Data entry in the following fields is optional:

Material Request #	The material request number for which you wish to modify the details (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the material request numbers that are similar to the values entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the material requests, which are in the “Draft” status.
MR Type	Use the drop-down list box to select the type of the material request. The system provides the following options:
	Planned – Select this option to retrieve the material request raised due to planned maintenance activities.
	Unplanned – Select this option to retrieve the material requests raised due to unplanned maintenance activities such as those triggered from line stations.
	Leave this field blank, if you wish to retrieve the material requests irrespective of their type. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Visit Package #	The number identifying the visit package (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the maintenance requests that are associated with the visit packages whose number is similar to the value specified here. Leave this field blank to search for all the maintenance requests, irrespective of the visit packages.
User Status	Use the drop-down list box to specify the user-defined status of the work order. The system lists all the “active” quick codes of type “User Status” as defined in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of the Material Request business component. The system retrieves all the maintenance requests that are in the user-defined status specified here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the maintenance requests, irrespective of their user-defined status.
Work Order #	The number of the work order for which you need to modify the material request (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the work order number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the maintenance requests that are associated with the work order whose number is similar to the number entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the maintenance requests, irrespective of the work order.
Work Center #	Use the drop-down list box to select the work center, for which the maintenance request you wish to modify, is raised. The system lists all the “active” work centers defined in the “Create Work Center” activity of the “Work Center” business component for the login user in the login organization unit. The system retrieves all the maintenance requests raised in the work center specified here.
Warehouse #	Use the drop-down list box to select the warehouse from where the parts can be collected. The system lists all the “active” warehouses defined in the “Create Warehouse Information” activity of the “Storage Administration” business component. The system retrieves material requests associated to the warehouse. Leave this field blank if you wish to retrieve the material request details irrespective of the warehouse.
MR Category	Use the drop-down list box to specify the category to which the material request belongs. The system lists all the “active” quick codes of type “MR Category” as defined in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of the “Material Request” business component. The system retrieves all the material requests, which are of the category specified here. Leave this field blank to retrieve the material request irrespective of the category.
Customer #	The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the customer number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the material requests with the customer number specified here.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the customer name in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the material requests with the customer name specified here.

Note: The "Customer #" and "Customer Name" fields are applicable only when the aircraft is not self-owned and the customer details are recorded in the system.

Note: Leave all the fields blank to search for all the material requests, which are either in “Draft” or “Fresh” status.

Click the “Search “pushbutton to search for the material requests.

The system displays the following fields in the “Search Results” multiline:

Material Request #	The material request retrieved by the system.
MR Type	The type of the MR, which could be either “Planned” or “Unplanned”.
MR Priority	The priority of the MR, which could be either “Normal” or “AOG”.
Need Date	The date on which the parts will be consumed or needed.
Warehouse #	The warehouse from where the parts can be collected.
Work Center #	The work center to which the material is issued.
User Status	The user-defined status of the MR.
MR Category	The category to which the MR belongs.
Visit Package #	The number that identifies the visit package.
Customer #	The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft.

Note: The "Customer #" and "Customer Name" fields are applicable only when the aircraft is not self-owned and the customer details are recorded in the system.

Enter the following field:

Remarks

Any other remarks pertaining to the confirmation or cancellation of the material request (Alphanumeric, 255). Entry in this field is mandatory if you wish to cancel the material request.

Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline to select the material request for canceling or confirming.

To cancel a material request

Click the “Cancel Request(s)” pushbutton at the bottom of the page to cancel the selected material requests.

The system changes the status to “Cancel”.

To confirm a material request

Click the “Confirm Request(s)” pushbutton at the bottom of the page to confirm the selected material requests.

If the ”Material Request Authorization” option is set as “Required” in the “Set Options” activity, the system changes the status to “Fresh”. Otherwise, the status is changed to “Authorized”. On authorizing the material request, the system updates the stock planning reservations from “Plan Demand” to “Firm Demand” in the “Stock Planning” business component. The system stores the name of the login user and the current server date as the last modified date.

To proceed, carry out the following

Click the hyperlinked material request number in the multiline, to modify the details.

Note: You cannot modify a material request that is in “Authorized” or “Cancelled” status.

Selecting maintenance material request for modification – An overview

You can select a material request and modify its details. If you know the material request number to be modified, you can directly enter it. Otherwise, you can carry out a search based on the material request number, MR type, user status, category, visit package, work order, work center and warehouse. The details of the selected material request, such as the number, type, priority, need date, warehouse, work center, user status, MR category and visit package. The system retrieves all the material requests, which are either in “Draft” or “Fresh” status based on the search criteria.

What you can do in this page

Cancel or confirm the material request

You can cancel or confirm the material request, which is in the “Draft” status.

Search and select the material request that you need to cancel or confirm.
Click the “Cancel Request(s)” pushbutton, to cancel the selected material requests.
Click the “Confirm Request(s)” pushbutton, to confirm the selected material requests.