Hi Friends
we recently went like with MRO process with Capital maintenance work order, which eventually settles to WBS elements in project system.
Process is
1. at plant, if maintenance required for any project, technical opens Capital work order with settlement going to WBS element.
2. Technician loggs his Labor hours and post Goods Issue and other posting to perform the maintenance.
3. Daily we settle the work order to WBS element.
4. if the Order was opened and maintenance job is completed within few days, project manger will let Capital finance team to close the project (WBS element)
5. Capital Finance can not close the WBS element, since there are still Order revaluation job that run at month end close time and posts the additional cost, which needs to be settled to WBS element, so WBS element can not be closed until month end close is done and all costs are settled.
6. so if we decide to close the project (WBS element) in middle of the month, we wont be able to close, but at the same time how do we prevent technician to re use the same WBS element to a different order? since sometimes technician keep using the WBS element that they are not supposed to.
so I want to know if there is any status on WBS element that can be leveraged to stop people using it as an cost object assignment for settlement rule but at the same time we want to allow Order revaluation posting?
Is there something in MRO that can be leverage to turn on and stop the misuse of WBS element?
Thanks