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Request for Material Transfer for a Maintenance Activity Order#

🔒 MaterialTransfer.RequestForMAO

Overview#

This operation is used to make a Material Transfer request for a particular Maintenance Activity Order.

Setup#

No special setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

Preconditions#

  • Both the Source Facility and Target Facility must exist and be Active and Source Facility must be different from Target Facility.
  • The Product referenced in the Material Transfer must be Active and the Material Transfer Mode must be different from None.
  • The Requested Quantity can only be decimal if Product Is Discrete is false.
  • The From Facility must be defined and it must not be a Remote Facility.
  • If Material Transfer is either Inventory Transfer or Material Transfer, a To Facility must be defined.
  • If the To Facility is defined, it must not be a Remote Facility.
  • If the From Step is defined, it must have the Is Material Transfer Step set to true.
  • If the To Step is defined, it must have the Is Material TransferStep set to true.
  • If Material Transfer Allowed Pickup is Area Employee, the To Area must be defined.
  • When a Maintenance Activity Order is not associated with a Resource, there must be an open MAO assigned to a Resource.

Sequence of Steps#

To request a Material Transfer for MAO, it is necessary to open a MAO and then select the Material Transfer Request For MAO button to initialize the wizard.

Step 1: Details#

  1. Select a From Facility and optionally, a From Area.
  2. Select the Product (must match a Part in the list of Parts for the MAO) and the Quantity to be requested (it defaults to the quantity of the list of Parts of the MAO).
  3. Select an Urgency (values are taken from the generic table MaterialTransferUrgency). When the urgency is selected, the request delivery date is automatically set, based on the current date and the predefined Default Delivery Time for that Urgency (in minutes).
  4. Optionally, override the request delivery date.
  5. Optionally, enter a comment.
  6. Press Request to complete the transaction.

Screenshot showing a request for material transfer for maintenance, including an Acitivity Order.