Short closing maintenance material request

Short–closing maintenance material request

This page allows you to select a material request and short-close it. Tell me more.

Select the “Short - Close Material Request” link under the “Hangar Work Order” business component.

The “Short–Close 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 in the “Search Criteria” group box to search for a maintenance material request for short closing. Data entry in the following fields is optional:

Material Request #	The material request number, which you need to short-close (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 is similar to the value entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the material requests, which are in the “Fresh” or “Authorized” status.
MR Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the type of the material request you need to short-close. The system provides the options, “Fresh” and “Authorized”. The system displays “Authorized” 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 whose user-defined status is similar to the 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 short-close the material request (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the work order number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the material 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 material requests, irrespective of the work order.
Work Center #	Use the drop-down list box to select the work center, to which the maintenance request you need to short-close, is raised. The system lists all the “active” work centers defined in the “Create Work Center” activity of the “Work Center” business component. The system retrieves all the maintenance requests raised in the work center specified here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the material requests, irrespective of the work center.
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 raised on the customer number entered 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 raised on the customer name entered 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 in “Fresh” and “Authorized” 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 Status	The status of the material request, which could be “Fresh” or “Authorized”.
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.
Remarks	Any additional remarks pertaining to the material request (Alphanumeric, 255).

Enter the following field:

Comments

Any additional comments pertaining to the material request (Alphanumeric, 255).

The system displays the following:

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 in the “Notes” group box:

Pre-closing Comments

Additional remarks pertaining to the short closing of the material request (Alphanumeric, 255). Mandatory.

Zoom facility available.

Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline to select the material request for short–closing.

To short–close material request

Click the “Short-close” pushbutton at the bottom of the page, to short-close the selected material requests.

The system performs the following:

Deletes the firm demand created for the selected material request.
Updates the status of the material request to “Short Closed” in the “Material Request” business component.
If there are issue documents in “Fresh” or “Draft” status for the short closed material request, the system updates the status of those documents to “Cancelled”.
Updates the name of the login user and the current server date as the last modified date.

To proceed, carry out the following

Select the “Selective Short-close” link at the bottom of the page, to short-close material request for a selected part.

Short closing maintenance material request – An overview

This page allows you to select a material request and short-close it. You can carry out a search based on the material request number, status, visit package number, user status, work order number, work center number, warehouse and category of the maintenance request. The material requests that are in the “Fresh” or “Authorized” status are displayed in the multiline.

You can select a particular material request to be short-closed. The status of the material request changes to “PreClosed” and the firm demands that are created for the material request are deleted.

Prerequisite

The material request must be in the “Fresh” or “Authorized” status.