Recording material usage

How you record material usage in the mobile app depends on how your agency has configured Operations and Regulations.

Because material usage is based on parts in the Inventory module, your agency must specify how material usage relates to inventory transactions, known as the costing method. There are three options:

Auto Record: Operations and Regulations automatically creates an issue transaction for the parts specified in the material usage record. This means that there must be a sufficient quantity of parts on hand.
Check Issues: Operations and Regulations checks for an existing issue transaction. If your agency is using this costing method, then an issue transaction must already have been created in Operations and Regulations before you can record material usage in the mobile app.
No Checks: Operations and Regulations does not check inventory transactions.

Note: For the No Checks costing method, you must always specify a rate when recording material usage in the mobile app.

Parts in Operations and Regulations can have standard costs defined for them, which will be used if you don't specify a rate when recording material usage in Operations and Regulations. However, the standard cost is not used in Infor Field Inspector. If you don't specify a rate when recording material usage in the mobile app, the total cost will be 0.