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Looking for written and archived webinar content that reviews the setup and use of the subject Maximo Work Order Tracking fields.

The direct issue status changes in a manner with what I am expecting.  Once a material is ordered and received, the status for direct issue changes from none to comp and even partial if materials are received in multiple "shipments".  This is the experience that I am expecting.

The alternate scenario is the work order material planning includes an item that is in inventory without sufficient stock to fulfill the work order requirement.  I am expecting the storeroom material status to change from "none" to "comp" once item inventory is replenished with enough material to cover the need.  The status does not change from the initial value = none.  It is worth noting that depending on planned material availability, the status does populate as "comp" and "partial" if one of a multiple planned materials has availability when the work order is approved.  However, it does not change from "partial" after the work order is approved.

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience.

#Inventory
#WorkManagement

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Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University
wcs10@psu.edu
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Bill, 

Do you have the WOMaterialStat cron task activated?

Looking for written and archived webinar content that reviews the setup and use of the subject Maximo Work Order Tracking fields.

The direct issue status changes in a manner with what I am expecting.  Once a material is ordered and received, the status for direct issue changes from none to comp and even partial if materials are received in multiple "shipments".  This is the experience that I am expecting.

The alternate scenario is the work order material planning includes an item that is in inventory without sufficient stock to fulfill the work order requirement.  I am expecting the storeroom material status to change from "none" to "comp" once item inventory is replenished with enough material to cover the need.  The status does not change from the initial value = none.  It is worth noting that depending on planned material availability, the status does populate as "comp" and "partial" if one of a multiple planned materials has availability when the work order is approved.  However, it does not change from "partial" after the work order is approved.

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience.

#Inventory
#WorkManagement

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Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University
wcs10@psu.edu
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Mark,

Thank you for the reply.

First a bit more information on recent discoveries, I checked the IBM preview sites for 7.6.0 and 7.6.1 and found the version 7.6.1 to function as expected and updates the store room status as materials are available.  Whereas, 7.6.0 did not.  I found in organization setting that 7.6.1 radio button selection for Inventory Defaults was "Allow Negative Available Balance" under the Negative Balance Options.  When this change was made in our environment, we experienced the behavior that we expect and want.

Yes the cron task is active.  However, it is not updating the record.  Our cron task is WOMaterialStatusUpdateCronTask (Instance Name: WOMaterialStatusUpdate) and not WOMaterialStat cron task.  The good news - the manual update action button in work order tracking application works.  In our cron task, I noticed the parameter section is empty.  Does content need to be populated to make this work?

Bill, 

Do you have the WOMaterialStat cron task activated?

Looking for written and archived webinar content that reviews the setup and use of the subject Maximo Work Order Tracking fields.

The direct issue status changes in a manner with what I am expecting.  Once a material is ordered and received, the status for direct issue changes from none to comp and even partial if materials are received in multiple "shipments".  This is the experience that I am expecting.

The alternate scenario is the work order material planning includes an item that is in inventory without sufficient stock to fulfill the work order requirement.  I am expecting the storeroom material status to change from "none" to "comp" once item inventory is replenished with enough material to cover the need.  The status does not change from the initial value = none.  It is worth noting that depending on planned material availability, the status does populate as "comp" and "partial" if one of a multiple planned materials has availability when the work order is approved.  However, it does not change from "partial" after the work order is approved.

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience.

#Inventory
#WorkManagement

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Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University
wcs10@psu.edu
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Hey Bill,

My mistake on the cron task name, you got it right.   There does not appear to be any parameters for the cron task instance.  I looked at the cron task code and, in the end, it calls the same method that the online screen does (WO mbo method = setAvailibilityStatus), but it implements a filter on the work orders being considered for update.   Essentially, it only considers work orders with a wpmaterial record that has ignoresrmavail = 0.   You might check to see if that flag is set to 0 or 1 on your planned material records.

Mark,

Thank you for the reply.

First a bit more information on recent discoveries, I checked the IBM preview sites for 7.6.0 and 7.6.1 and found the version 7.6.1 to function as expected and updates the store room status as materials are available.  Whereas, 7.6.0 did not.  I found in organization setting that 7.6.1 radio button selection for Inventory Defaults was "Allow Negative Available Balance" under the Negative Balance Options.  When this change was made in our environment, we experienced the behavior that we expect and want.

Yes the cron task is active.  However, it is not updating the record.  Our cron task is WOMaterialStatusUpdateCronTask (Instance Name: WOMaterialStatusUpdate) and not WOMaterialStat cron task.  The good news - the manual update action button in work order tracking application works.  In our cron task, I noticed the parameter section is empty.  Does content need to be populated to make this work?

Bill, 

Do you have the WOMaterialStat cron task activated?

Looking for written and archived webinar content that reviews the setup and use of the subject Maximo Work Order Tracking fields.

The direct issue status changes in a manner with what I am expecting.  Once a material is ordered and received, the status for direct issue changes from none to comp and even partial if materials are received in multiple "shipments".  This is the experience that I am expecting.

The alternate scenario is the work order material planning includes an item that is in inventory without sufficient stock to fulfill the work order requirement.  I am expecting the storeroom material status to change from "none" to "comp" once item inventory is replenished with enough material to cover the need.  The status does not change from the initial value = none.  It is worth noting that depending on planned material availability, the status does populate as "comp" and "partial" if one of a multiple planned materials has availability when the work order is approved.  However, it does not change from "partial" after the work order is approved.

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience.

#Inventory
#WorkManagement

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Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University
wcs10@psu.edu
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Hi Mark,

Thank your for your recommendation.  I could not find ignoresrmavail on the wpmaterial mbo.  However, I did find it on the workorder mbo.  In our environment, the default was "1".  Changing the default to "0" and testing-- Resulted in the cron task updating the work order record.  I also made this change in woactivity, wochange & worelease mbos where the attribute exists.

Your recommendations were valuable.  I could not find any other documentation that regarding this and highly unlikely I would of found this on my own.

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Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University

Original Message:
Sent: 12-22-2020 16:34
From: Mark Eaton
Subject: Work Order Storeroom & Direct Issue Material Feature and Function

Hey Bill,

My mistake on the cron task name, you got it right.   There does not appear to be any parameters for the cron task instance.  I looked at the cron task code and, in the end, it calls the same method that the online screen does (WO mbo method = setAvailibilityStatus), but it implements a filter on the work orders being considered for update.   Essentially, it only considers work orders with a wpmaterial record that has ignoresrmavail = 0.   You might check to see if that flag is set to 0 or 1 on your planned material records.

Mark,

Thank you for the reply.

First a bit more information on recent discoveries, I checked the IBM preview sites for 7.6.0 and 7.6.1 and found the version 7.6.1 to function as expected and updates the store room status as materials are available.  Whereas, 7.6.0 did not.  I found in organization setting that 7.6.1 radio button selection for Inventory Defaults was "Allow Negative Available Balance" under the Negative Balance Options.  When this change was made in our environment, we experienced the behavior that we expect and want.

Yes the cron task is active.  However, it is not updating the record.  Our cron task is WOMaterialStatusUpdateCronTask (Instance Name: WOMaterialStatusUpdate) and not WOMaterialStat cron task.  The good news - the manual update action button in work order tracking application works.  In our cron task, I noticed the parameter section is empty.  Does content need to be populated to make this work?

Bill, 

Do you have the WOMaterialStat cron task activated?

Looking for written and archived webinar content that reviews the setup and use of the subject Maximo Work Order Tracking fields.

The direct issue status changes in a manner with what I am expecting.  Once a material is ordered and received, the status for direct issue changes from none to comp and even partial if materials are received in multiple "shipments".  This is the experience that I am expecting.

The alternate scenario is the work order material planning includes an item that is in inventory without sufficient stock to fulfill the work order requirement.  I am expecting the storeroom material status to change from "none" to "comp" once item inventory is replenished with enough material to cover the need.  The status does not change from the initial value = none.  It is worth noting that depending on planned material availability, the status does populate as "comp" and "partial" if one of a multiple planned materials has availability when the work order is approved.  However, it does not change from "partial" after the work order is approved.

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience.

#Inventory
#WorkManagement

------------------------------
Bill Steudler
The Pennsylvania State University
wcs10@psu.edu
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