Managing Advanced MCO Quotations

This document explains how you manage maintenance customer order (MCO) quotations that involve estimate of the work content.

The document describes the following process variants:

  • Quotation flow on work request level
  • Quotation flow on work order level.

Outcome

The following results can be expected:

  • The job content is estimated and all materials and operations are added to the work request or work order.
  • One or more quotations are created and the customer has either approved or rejected the proposed job and the costs.

Uses

Work can begin or continue and the customer can be invoiced.

How the System Is Affected

Refer to the documents listed in the See Also section for further information about changes in M3 tables.

Before you start

Follow These Steps

  1. Estimating and Quoting against Work Request

    This process variant describes how WO estimation and quoting is done against a work request.

    During the estimation process you may add materials and operations to the work request and create one or more quotations.

  2. Estimating and Quoting against Work Order

    This process variant describes how WO estimation and quoting is done against a work order.

    During the estimation process you can add material and operations to the work order and create one or more quotations. You select whether or not you want to hold the work order from further processing until the quotation is approved.