Service Parts Planning

Let us start exploring the detailed Functional setups and Technical aspects of the Service Parts Planning Module

Service Parts Planning setups

1) Setup Organizations

After the VCP instance is created, we need to setup organizations in VCP. These are the organizations that will be planned in VCP.

Functional setup
 Navigation - Service Supply Chain Administrator --> Admin --> Instances --> Organizations (B)
 Field details:

   Org               - Organization Code defined on the source instance

   Description    - Description of the org. Will be populated automatically.

   Type             - Type of the org. (Will be discussed further)

   Enabled         - Org is available               

   Collection Group             - User defined name which is used when running collections.(Collections will be discussed in detail)

 Below screenshot shows the organizations setup form

 Organization Type: An organization can be a DC (Distribution Center),   

                             External Repair (External Repair Organization),

                             Internal Repair (Internal Repair   Organization), Supplier, 

                             Field Technician organization etc.

 An example of Distribution center is -  Central Warehouse of a country from where the material is shipped to other warehouses managing small areas.

Technical Details

Entry made into the Organizations form will get saved into the table

                MSC_INSTANCE_ORGS

Important Columns:

SR_INSTANCE_ID    -- Source instance id

ORGANIZATION_ID   -- Organization Id of the organization entered. This value is derived from Source instance

ORG_GROUP         -- The collection group that we enter while setting up the org

ORGANIZATION_TYPE -- Type of the organization.             

                                  (Example: 6 - DC, 4 - External Repair, 8 - Supplier etc)

SQL Query

 SELECT sr_instance_id,
        organization_id,
        org_group,
        organization_type
   FROM msc_instance_orgs;