Plant maintenance order plan costs are eating up budget dollars

[Former Member]

We have availability control with project hierarchies that include projects, WBS and subordinate plant maintenance orders. Budget dollars are assigned to the project. As commitments and actual costs are posted, the assigned amount in availability control is increased; thus, drawing down on the budget or available funds for incremental commitments.

Here is the problem. Plant maintenance (PM) order planned costs (planned only in PM) are consuming the budget by increasing the assigned amount in availability control. When a new commitment is made with a PM order, there are no funds available because the PM order plan costs have used up the entire budget.

Does anyone know how to exclude the PM order planned costs from the assigned amount in availability control without jeopardizing commitment processing and availability control functionality?

You guidance is appreciated

Lance

[Former Member]

Thank you for the feedback. The cost elements are relevant to availability control and are specifically excluded from OPTK. The "Appended Plan Update" and "Assign Funds in Plan" fields are unchecked for Order Category 30 in OPSV. Do you have any other ideas?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Not sure if anything else can be done specifically to avoid considering the planned cost from an order that is already supposed to be included for AVAC. I could find the following user exist "SAPLBPFC enhancement, EXIT_SAPLBPFC_002 component" for the tolerance limit. Hope this will help you to put in some custom checks.

Regards

Sreekanth

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check your OPSV settings. For order type 30 check whether the appended indicator is ticked.

Regards,

Syed Ammar Zaheer

[Former Member]

Hi,

One option would be to update the cost elements of PM Orders in OPTK as "exempt cost elements".

Regards

Sreekanth