Equipment Rental Request (tssoc5645m000)

Use this session to to view and maintain rental requests for an equipment. You can modify and process the request into a rental agreement. An equipment rental request can be created using a planned equipment request in Project or a customer call in Service. You can also create equipment rental requests manually.

The Equipment Rental Requests Lines (tssoc5150m000) session is displayed as a satellite session in this session and can be used to link rental resource lines to an equipment rental request.
Note: This session is displayed only if the Equipment as a Service check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session.

Field Information

Request
The code of the equipment rental request.
Note: The application uses this search criteria to default the series for creating the equipment rental request:
  1. The Series for Equipment Rental Requests specified in the Service User Profiles (tsmdm1150m000) session.
  2. The Series specified for rental requests in the Service Offices (tsmdm1100m100) session.
  3. The Series for Equipment Rental Requests specified in the Service Order Parameters (tssoc0100m000) session.
Status
The status of the equipment rental request. You can modify the equipment rental request data only if the status is Free or In Process. After the equipment rental request is converted into a rental agreement, this field is set to Processed.
Note: By default, this field is set to Free.

Allowed values

Free
In Process
Processed
Canceled
Description
The description of the rental equipment request.
Creation Date
The date and time when the rental equipment request is created.
General
Rental
Rented-to Business Partner
The code of the business partner to whom the item is rented.
Name
The name of the business partner to whom the item is rented.
Rental Office
The code of the service department linked to the rental item.
Service Type
The code of the service type linked to the rental item.
Note: You can specify a service type with the Order Procedure set to Rental only.
Rental Template List
The code of the rental template list based on which the equipment rental request lines are created.
Project
Project
The code of the project for which the rental equipment request is created.
Element
The code of the element linked to the project.
Activity
The code of the activity linked to the project.
Request Text
Text
The additional information related to the equipment rental request.
Times
Rental Period
The duration for which the rental equipment specified on the rental request lines are rented out.
Note: You can use the Determine option to:
  • Default the rental period specified for the linked rental template list.
  • Calculate the rental period based on the earliest planned on hire and the latest planned off hire dates specified for the linked rental agreements.
Rental Period Unit

The unit in which the rental period is expressed.

Allowed values

Hours
Days
Weeks
Months
Years
Not Applicable
On Hire
The date and time from when the rental equipment is rented out.
Off Hire
The date and time until when the rental equipment is rented out.
References
Origin

The object type from which the rental equipment request originates.

Allowed values

Manual
Planned Equipment Request
Call
Business Object
The code of the business object for which the rental equipment request is created.
Business Object Reference
The reference code of the business object for which the rental equipment request is created.
Rental Order
The code of the rental order created when the rental equipment request is processed.
Status

The status of the rental order associated with the rental request.

Allowed values

Planned

When you plan a service order by means of the Service Order Resource Planning (tssoc2260m000) session, the service order status changes from Free to Planned.

Released

Under this status the service engineer carries out the service order. You can change the service order's status to Released when you plan the service order by means of the Service Order Resource Planning (tssoc2260m000) session, or when you choose Release on the appropriate menu in the Service Orders (tssoc2100m000) session.

Completed

The status of service orders that are successfully carried out. To change a service order's status from Released to Completed, choose Complete on the appropriate menu in the Service Orders (tssoc2100m000) session. The service order is then removed from the planning system.

Costed

The status of financially approved service orders. To change a service order's status to Costed (only possible if the status is Released or Completed), choose Cost on the appropriate menu in the Service Orders (tssoc2100m000) session.

Note: Before you change the status to Costed, make sure that all the service order's actual cost lines are entered, and financially approved.
Closed

You can change a service order's status from Costed to Closed by means of the Close Service Orders (tssoc2201m000) session. Service orders with the status Closed cannot have their data changed.

Canceled

You can cancel service orders of status Planned, or Released, by means of the Cancel Service Order (tssoc2204m000) session, but only if all the activities linked to the service orders have the status Planned or Released and have no actual costs booked.

Note: If costs are already invoiced (cost line status is Costed or Posted to Finance), you cannot change the status of the service order and its related activities to Canceled.
Rejected
Free

The status when you first define a service order.

Multiple Orders
Indicates that multiple agreements exist for the rental equipment request.
Cancellation
Reason
The code of reason for cancelling the rental equipment request.
Text
The additional information related to the rental equipment request cancellation.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Cancel Date
The date and time when the rental equipment request is cancelled.