Service Orders (tssoc2100m000)

Use this session to view, maintain, or create service orders.

Use the following options to view the related orders within the service package and the related orders originating from the packages such as Purchase, Manufacturing and Warehouse:

  • Related To:
    Starts the Graphical Browser Framework that displays the orders which originate from the current order.
  • Related From:
    Starts the Graphical Browser Framework that displays the orders that originate from the specific order.

Graphical Browser Framework allows you to view Multi level relations of the orders. You can view the details using the following options:

  • View Details:
    Use this option to view the details of the related order.
  • Reverse Tree:
    Use this option to start the Graphical Browser Framework in reverse mode starting from the order you select. For example, if you open Graphical Browser Framework in Related To mode, you can use the reverse option to view the orders in the Related From mode.
Note

To select multiple records, hold the CTRL key.

Use the Recalculate Price/Discounts Entire Order option to retrieve the default prices of the cost and invoice lines related to the service order or activity line from the service contract. This option is disabled if the price of the related cost lines, activities and invoice lines cannot be modified.

 

Service Order
The number used to identify the service order.

When you create a service order in the details session, you must select a series to assign the service order to. LN then generates a number for the service order.

Description
If the service order is created for an external customer, this field displays the name of the sold-to business partner.

If the service order is created for an internal business partner, this field displays the description of the service department that carries out the service order.

Service Order Status
The service order's current status.
Installation Group
The installation group for which the service order is created.
Description
The name or description of the Installation group.
Department
If the service order is for an internal customer, this field displays your company's department that owns the service order's Installation group.

Default value

The department specified for the Installation group in the Installation Groups (tsbsc1100m000) session.

Sold-to BP
If the service order is created for an external customer, this field displays the name of the sold-to business partner.

If the service order is created for an internal business partners, this field displays the description of the service department that carries out the service order.

Sold-to BP
The name of the business partner.
Project
If you create the service order for a project, in this field, enter the project's code.
Note

Only PCS projects with status Active can be maintained. In addition, you can only maintain this field if the service order status is Free.

In this field, users can also specify projects of type LN Project.

Service Department
The service department that carries out the service order.

Default value

The service department specified for the Installation group in the Installation Groups (tsbsc1100m000) session. Otherwise, the service department specified in the User Profiles (tsmdm1150m000) session.

Financial Department
Financial department.

The financial department enables you to process financial transactions for an order in another financial company than the financial company of the sales office.

Note
  • The financial department must have a tax ID in the tax country.
  • This field is only visible if the Use Tax Numbers of other Financial Companies check box is selected in the Tax Parameters (tctax0100m000) session.

Default value

  • This field is defaulted from the service department field.
  • This field retrieves the default financial data of its financial company for the service order.
Tax Classification
An attribute of order header and order lines that you can use to define tax exceptions for the transactions. LN retrieves the default tax classification from the invoice-from and invoice-to business partners.
Important!

For example, you can use the tax classification to indicate the following:

  • Payment to an invoice-to business partner is subject to withholding tax and social contributions.
  • Business partners with the same tax aspects for your company, for example, subcontractors or agents, must be grouped.
  • Tax must be paid in a country other than the sales office or service office’s home country.
Tax Classification
The description or name of the code.
Service Engineer
The service employee who implements the service order.

Default value

The service employee specified in the User Profiles (tsmdm1150m000) session.

Note
  • Users can only fill in this field if the service-order status is Free, Planned, or Released.
  • If you allocate a service engineer for an entire service order, this field is filled and can be changed manually.
  • If you change the service employee on the order header, this can lead to a change in service car, which in turn leads to changes in the actual warehouse of the material lines with delivery type From Warehouse in Car, as well as in the destination of the warehouse transfer and issue orders.
Description
The service engineer's name.
Service Type

Default value

The service type specified in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session. You can specify default service types for service orders that are generated in the following ways:

  • Manually
  • From a service order quotation
  • From a call, in the Call Management module
  • From a planned activity, in the Service Planning & Concepts module
  • From a field change order (FCO)
Order Procedure
Classifies the nature of the service activities that are required. In Service two procedures are predefined: Normal and Emergency.

Default value

The order procedure that is linked to the selected service type.

Interrupted
If this check box is selected, the service order has been temporarily put on hold.
Note

You can only select this check box if the service order's status is Released. If you clear this check box, LN does not clear the Interruption Reason field, because this interruption reason can be used for information.

Interruption Reason
The service order's interruption reason.
Canceled
If this check box is selected, the service order has been cancelled.
Note

You can cancel service orders in the Cancel Service Order (tssoc2204m000) session.

Cancel Date
The date on which the service order was cancelled.
Note

You can cancel service orders in the Cancel Service Order (tssoc2204m000) session.

Blocked
If this check box is selected, the service order is blocked.
Note

You can specify blocking reasons in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session. If you select any blocking reasons, LN performs blocking checks on the service order each time you attempt to change the order's status.

Cancel Reason
The reason why the service order was canceled.
Note

The reason that appears in this field is the reason the user specifies in the Cancel Service Order (tssoc2204m000) session at service order cancellation.

Cancel Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.
Note

The user enters this text in the Cancel Service Order (tssoc2204m000) session at service order cancellation.

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Consolidate Travel cost
If you select this check box, the following cost lines are created in the Service Order Estimated Other Costs (tssoc2140m000) session:
  • A Travel Total line is created if the parameter Distance or Time (or both) are selected in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

  • A separate cost line for traveling distance is created if the parameter Distance is selected in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

  • A separate cost line for traveling time is created if the parameter Time is selected in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

Note

You can select the check box only when you select the Consolidate Travel cost check box in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

Order Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.

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Order Date
The date and time at which the service order was entered in LN.
Last Updated
The date and time at which the service order's details were last modified.
Order Duration
The time required to carry out the service order, which is the duration of all the related service-order activities.
  • The duration cannot be entered on the order header.
  • The duration is determined as the duration between the planned start time and planned finish time of the order header, based on availability of the calendars.
Travel Duration
The amount of time the service engineer requires to travel to the location where the service order is to be implemented.

Default value

The travel time specified for the service order's Installation group in the Installation Groups (tsbsc1100m000) session.

Planned Start Time
The time by which the service order must be started.
Note
  • This field is available only for the service orders with the status Free, Planned, and Released.
  • If you add an activity to the service order with a planned start time (PST) that is earlier than the value you enter in this field, LN updates this field with the value of the activity's PST.
Planned Finish Time
The time when service order is planned to finish.

If you add a service order activity with a Planned Finish Time (PFT) that is later than the value you enter in this field, LN updates this field with the value of the activity's PFT.

Note

This field is available only for service orders with the status Free, Planned, or Released.

Earliest Start Time
The earliest time at which work on the service order is planned to start.

This date is used as the planned delivery date for allocating the required materials in a warehouse or as the planned delivery date for items to be purchased.

Note
  • The earliest start time of the header is determined by subtracting the smallest slack time from the planned start time of the header.
Latest Finish Time
The time at which the service order is planned to finish at the latest.
Note
  • The latest finish time of the header is determined by adding the smallest slack time to the planned finish time of the header.
ATP Date
The ATP date when the specific spare part is available in the warehouse.
Note

When the ATP date is greater than the earliest start time then the earliest start time is set equivalent to the ATP date. The Planned Delivery Date is also changed to match the ATP date.

The ATP date is not generated when:

  • The ATP check does not generate any date.
  • The Item is not present in the warehouse
  • The master plan is not present
  • When the item falls outside the range of the master plan horizon range.
ATP Check
Indicates whether there is a change in the Planned Start Time and Appointment as a result of a successful ATP check.

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Dispatch Time of the service order
The time frame within which the service organisation must provide a response to the customer.
Travel Start Time
The time at which the service engineer departs for the service site to carry out the service order.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the order status is Released.

Execution Start Time
The actual time at which the service engineer starts work on the service order.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the order status is Released.

Execution Finish Time
The actual time at which the service engineer completes work on the service order.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the order status is Released.

Coverage Time
For contract, quotation, or warranty coverages, the date and time as of which these coverages apply to the service order.
Business Partner
The code of the sold-to business partner.
Address
The address code of the sold-to business partner.
Address
The address of the sold-to business partner.
Contact
The sold-to business partner's contact.
First Reference
Any further reference information about the business partner that you want to include with the service order.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the sold-to BP field is filled, and if the order status is Free or Planned.

This field is available in the Released or Completed statuses if no actual cost lines are present for the order.

Second Reference
Any further reference information about the business partner that you would like to include with the service order.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the sold-to BP field is filled, and the order status is Free or Planned.

This field is available in the Released or Completed statuses if no cost lines are present for the order.

Sales Representative
The employee responsible for the service order.
Line of Business
A group of customers, suppliers, or employees that work in the same business sector.

Lines of business can be used as selection criteria when generating reports or inquiries of statistical and historical data.

Default value

The line of business specified for the sold-to business partner in the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000) session.

Note

You can only maintain this field if the order status is Free or Planned and if the Sold-to BP field is filled.

Sales Price List
The code of the price list linked to the business partner and used to determine the service order's sales price.

Default value

The price list selected for the business partner in the Sold-to Business Partners (tccom4510m000) session.

Service Contract
If an active service contract covers the service order's Installation group, the contract number appears in this field.
Order Quotation
If the service order is created from a transferred service quotation order, the service order quotation's number appears in this field.
Route
The route entered on the originating order. The default value is taken from the freight order header.
Carrier
The carrier that is to receives the goods on the current freight order line. The value in this field is taken from the freight order header.

The carrier that you enter in this field is overruled if the load building engine finds other carriers that offer lower prices and/or provide a better planning scope.

If you do not enter a carrier in this field, the load building engine selects a carrier.

If the carrier entered in this field is not to be overruled by the load building engine, select the Carrier Binding check box.

Business Partner
The ship-to business partner who receives the service order's material requirements.
Address
The ship-to business partner's address code.
Contact
The ship-to business partner's contact.

Default value

The contact specified for the business partner in the Invoice-to Business Partners (tccom4512m000) session.

Delivery Terms
The delivery terms as retrieved from the Delivery Terms (tcmcs0141m000) session.

This field is used as an informative field that can be sent to the Warehousing Package for the Shipment / Receipt related agreements made between supplier and customer.

  • This field is available only for external service orders.
  • This field is available only for the service orders with status Free or Planned.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Point of Title Passage

The point of title passage is the point of location at which the transition of responsibility of a consignment transfers from the supplier to the customer. In Service, the transfer is from the service company to the customer.

  • This field is available only for external service orders.
  • This field is available only for the service orders with status Free or Planned.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Location Address
The address code of the location at which materials must be received by the ship-to business partner.
Address
Address details.
Country
The country in which the above address is located.
Coverage Type
The service order's coverage type.
Service Area
The code of the service area in which the service order is carried out.

Default value

The code of the service area selected for the service order's Installation group in the Installation Groups (tsbsc1100m000) session.

Note

You can only maintain this field if:

  • The order status is Free or Planned.
  • The Use check box is selected in the General Service Parameters (tsmdm0100m000) session.

This field is available in the Released or Completed statuses if no actual cost lines are present for the order.

Service Car
The service car the service engineer uses to drive to the service site.

Default value

The service car related to the service employee. If a service engineer is related to the service order when you run the Run Global SRP (tssoc2260m000) session, this field is filled by default.

Note
  • This field is used for information purposes only.
  • This field is only available if the Sold-to BP field is filled, and if the service-order status is Free, Planned or Released.
  • Any changes to the service car on the order header leads to a change in service car, which in turn leads to changes in the actual warehouse of the material lines with delivery type From Warehouse in Car, and in the destination of the warehouse transfer and issue orders. The following table describes each of these changes:
Transfer OrderIssue OrderAction
Not ProcessedNot ProcessedThe material lines are updated with the new car warehouse. Transfer and issue orders are updated with the new car warehouse.
ProcessedNot ProcessedThe following message appears: "Already processed Transfer Order(s) and Issue Order(s) will not be updated." The material lines are updated with the new car warehouse. Transfer orders are not updated with the new car warehouse, but issue orders are updated with the new car warehouse.
Not ProcessedProcessedThe following message appears: "Already processed Transfer Order(s) and Issue Order(s) will not be updated." Material lines are not updated with the new car warehouse. Transfer and issue orders are not updated with the new car warehouse.
ProcessedProcessedThe following message appears: "Already processed Transfer Order(s) and Issue Order(s) will not be updated." Material lines are not updated with the new car warehouse. Transfer and issue orders are not updated with the new car warehouse.

 

Blank Order Sheet
If the service engineer uses prenumbered blank sheets to record the service order's cost specifications, in this field, you must specify the number of the sheet on which the service engineer records the service order's cost.
Note

You can only maintain this field if the order status is Released.

Business Partner
The service order's invoice-to business partner.
Address
The invoice-to business partner's address code.
Contact
The invoice-to business partner's contact.

Default value

The contact specified for the business partner in the Invoice-to Business Partners (tccom4512m000) session.

Sales Type
Users can maintain separate accounts based on sales type.
Description
The description of the sales type.
Payment Terms
The payment terms used to invoice the business partner for the service order costs.

Default value

The payment terms assigned to the business partner in the Invoice-to Business Partners (tccom4512m000) session.

Late Payment Surch.
The code of the late payment surcharge that applies to the service order's costs.
Total Invoice
If this check box is selected, and you change the service order status to Costed, LN posts all actual cost lines to Invoicing simultaneously.

Default value

Selected.

If this check box is cleared, the actual cost lines can be separately approved and posted to Invoicing. You can use this setting if, for example, a service order takes a long time to finish and accelerated invoicing is required. You can also post the actual cost lines to Invoicing if you change the service order status or the service-order activity status to Costed.

Note
  • If the service order status is Free or Planned, you can modify the setting in this field.
  • For internal service orders, this field is not applicable.
Invoice Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.

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VAT Based On
If this check box is selected, VAT calculation is based on goods or services.

Allowed values

VAT Based on

Note

LN determines the defaults for the tax country and the tax code based on the option you choose.

Currency
The currency used to express the service order's costs.

Default value

The invoice-to business partner's currency.

Exchange Rate Type
The exchange rate type to which the currency belongs. Exchange rate type is a method used to group currency exchange rates. You can assign currency exchanges to various invoices, to business partners, and/or to numerous types of transactions, such as Purchase Sales and so on.
Rate Determiner
The method used to fix the currency rates for a service order's costs when the rates are expressed in a currency other than your company's home currency.
Rate/Rate Factor
The defined currency rate.
Business Partner
The pay-by business partner who pays the costs of the service order.
Address
The address code of the pay-by business partner.
Contact
The code of the pay-by business partner's contact.

Default value

The contact specified for the business partner in the Pay-by Business Partners (tccom4514m000) details session.

Pricing Contract
The contract linked to the service order line for which contract price is defined.
Pricing Contract Change
The number that identifies the active contract change number at the time of linking. The order uses the contract terms that are activated for this contract change number.
Pricing Method
The pricing method that LN uses to invoice the service order.
Note

If the Pricing Method field is set to Fixed Repair Price, a record is crated in Service Order Fixed Prices (tssoc2115m000) session.

Allowed values

Pricing Method

Fixed Price
The fixed price available for the service order.
Note

This option is enabled only if the Pricing Method field is set to Fixed Repair Price.

This option is visible only if the Use Fixed Repair Prices in Service Orders check box is selected in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

Price Origin
The price origin of the fixed price.

Allowed values

Price Origin

Pricing Contract Line
Contract configuration line linked to the service order line for which contract price is defined.
Project
The code that uniquely identifies the project to which the service order/service order activity line is linked.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Contract Ignored
If this check box is selected/cleared, the following are the possible scenarios:
  • If this check box is selected and Pricing Contract, Pricing Contract Change and the Pricing Contract Line fields are specified, a valid service contract is linked and the sales price of the service contract is overruled.
  • If this check box is selected and Pricing Contract, Pricing Contract Change and the Pricing Contract Line fields are not specified, a service contract is not linked.
  • If this check box is not selected and Pricing Contract, Pricing Contract Change and the Pricing Contract Line fields are specified, a valid service contract exists, and pricing terms data is used.
  • If this check box is not selected and Pricing Contract, Pricing Contract Change and the Pricing Contract Line fields are not specified, a valid service contract does not exist.
Note

This is a display field.

This field is visible only if the Use Prices in Service Contracts check box is selected in the Contract Management Parameters (tsctm0100m000) session.

Travel Planning Method
The method that indicates whether the travel planning is based on service order header or service order activity line.
Note

If this field is set to Not Applicable, the value is defaulted from the Service Types (tsmdm0130m000) session. If this field is set to a value other than Not Applicable, the value is defaulted from the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000)

 

Perform ATP check
Performs the ATP check for the selected service order and updates the ATP date.

In case the item, quantity, warehouse or delivery date are changed then the ATP check is performed again and the ATP date is updated.

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View Details
Starts the service order details session.
Insert
Creates a new service order.
Service Order Activity - Lines
Starts the Service Order Activity - Lines (tssoc2110m100) session, in which you can view, maintain, or create activities for the selected service order.
Estimated Costs
Use this option to maintain and view the estimated costs of material, labor, and other costs.
Actual Costs
Use this option to maintain and view the actual costs of material, labor, and other costs.
Hours Accounting
Use this option to maintain hours accounting for the service order.
Blocking Reasons
If you use this option and you enter the planned end date, the planned start date is calculated backwards by activity duration, travel duration, and availability by calendars. The calendars are selected from the serialized items, if specified, otherwise from the Installation group. If no calendars are defined for the relevant durations, an error message is given. If the planned end date is not calculated, no activities are planned.
Assignments List
Starts the Service Engineer Assignments List (tssoc2505m000) session.
Global SRP...
Use this option to run Global SRP on the Service Order.
Release Service Orders
Starts the Release Service Orders (tssoc2200m000) session. The service order activities you select are release independent of the header status, which can be Free or Planned. The status of the service activities that are not selected for release remain unchanged.
Release
Use this option to change the status of the service order from Free to Released. The service order activities you select are release independent of the header status, which can be Free or Planned. The status of the service activities that are not selected for release remain unchanged.
Complete...
Use this option to change the status of a service order from Released to Completed.
Cost...
Use this option to calculate the cost for the service order.
Dispatch Control
Starts the Dispatch Control (tssoc2105m009) session.
Close Service Orders and Copy to History
Issue Stock for Order
Issues stock from the warehouse.
Deferred Emergency Service Orders
Starts the Deferred Emergency Service Orders (tssoc2502m000) session.
Propagate Tax Settings
Creates or restores uniform tax settings.
Online Margin Control
Displays the estimated or actual cost lines for the service order in the Service Order Online Margin Control (tssoc4500m000) session.
Print Draft Invoice
Use this option to print the draft invoice before service order is invoiced.

This option is enabled if:

  • The service order is an external service order.
  • The status of the service order is Released or Completed.
  • The actual quantity and invoice sales amount are defined for at least one of the cost lines.
  • Not all the cost lines are linked to an ERP project. The order / activity link can be found in the Service Order Links by Project (tppss6520m000) session.

Note

  • If the Total Invoice check box is selected, all the cost lines are printed in the draft invoice. Only the cost lines with statuses Free and Costed are considered.
  • If the Total Invoice check box is cleared, the cost lines can be printed individually. Only the cost lines with status Free are considered for printing the draft invoice.
View Tree
Shows the service order and its associated service order activities in a graphical manner.
Installation Group
Shows the Installation group for which the service order is created.
Determine Start
If you use this option and you enter the planned end date, the planned start date is calculated backwards by activity duration, travel duration, and availability by calendars. The calendars are selected from the serialized items, if specified, otherwise from the Installation group. If no calendars are defined for the durations concerned, an error message appears. If the planned end date is not calculated, no activities are planned.
Determine Finish
If you use this option and you enter the planned start date, the planned finish date is calculated forwards using activity duration, travel duration and availability by calendars. The calendars are selected from the serialized items, if specified, or else from the Installation group. If no calendars are defined for the specified durations, an error message appears. If the planned start date is not calculated, no activities are planned.
Cost...
Displays the project details of the service order.
Update Engineer and Location Address
Use this option to replace or update engineer and location address. Starts the Update Engineer and Location Address (tscfg2700m000) session.
Print Service Order Online Margin
Prints the service order online margin.
Print Service Orders
Prints the service orders.
Print Service Order Documents
Prints the service order documents.
Print Blank Service Order Sheets
Prints blank service order sheets.
Related Orders To
Starts the Graphical Browser Framework that displays the orders which originate from the current order.
Related Orders From
Starts the Graphical Browser Framework that displays the orders from which the current order originates from.
Fixed Prices
Starts the Service Order Fixed Prices (tssoc2115m000) session

This option is enabled only if the Pricing Method field is set to Fixed Repair Price.

This option is visible only if the Use Fixed Repair Prices in Service Orders check box is selected in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.

Link / Unlink Contract
Allows the user to link or unlink the service contract with the pricing terms.
  • This option is enabled only if the pricing contract is defined for the service contract.
  • This option is visible only if the Use Prices in Service Contracts check box is selected in the Contract Management Parameters (tsctm0100m000) session.
Recalculate Price/Discounts Entire Order
Starts the Price and Discount Recalculation (tssoc2240m000) session.
Service Order - Lines - Synchronization
Starts the Service Order - Lines - Synchronization (tssoc0280m000) session.