Installation Group Service
An installation group is set of serialized items that have the same location and are owned by the same business partner. Grouping serialized items into an installation group enables you to maintain them collectively. An installation group helps you to relate multiple objects for a particular customer, location, or contract.
You can also define an installation group as a location for a group of objects. The key data include the location details and service center details of an installation group. The other details serve only as defaults for the lower-level objects.
An installation group is at the highest level in the bill of objects and includes header information for all the objects that belong to the installation group, such as the business partner, location, and calendar. You can register the specific installation group (installed base) bought by the customers.
To include the serialized items or physical breakdown structures, you can include the item or top item in the installation group lines linked to the installation group.
Defining installation groups
You can define an installation group and its structure manually. Alternatively, you can generate the installation group from service bill of materials, purchase orders, sales orders, and project work breakdown structure or element structures.
Example
You can define the following installation groups:
- All computer hardware in a particular building
- An air-conditioning unit in a large building
Linking installation groups
You can link the installation group in one of these ways:
- Link the installation group to a business partner to designate the installation group as an external installation group
- Link the installation group to a work center or department to designate the installation group as an internal installation group.