Hi Nancy: for services, Maximo defaults the quantity to 1, but if you remove the quantity, Maximo allows it. In this case, I would advise doing that. The unit cost will also end up blank, but you can specify a Line Cost directly.
When receiving, the receiver would just receive the Line Cost, or alternatively can receive a percentage, in which case Maximo will calculate what the receipt line cost will be.
Note: this seems to be largely undocumented functionality.
Hope this helps.
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Shannon Rotz
InComm Solutions
New Westminster BC
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 16, 2021 06:25 PM
From: Nancy Powers
Subject: Posting Multiple Invoices against Blanket Release POs
Hi All,
We utilize Blanket Release POs in Maximo for procuring services. We also post service costs to WOs. We utilize a 3-way match of PO, Service Receipt, and Invoice.
All this works well for us with the exception of emergency blanket release POs – as it is impossible to estimate the quantity to be purchased (i.e. the number of service visits annually). Typically our release POs are issued at a quantity of 1 and a unit price equal to the available budget for the emergency service. For example, 1 ea @ $60,000 unit cost = $60,000 PO line cost. As a result, we cannot match multiple invoices against the receipt/PO given the quantity = 1.
We recognize that we can change the quantity to get around this constraint (i.e. 60,000 units @$1 each or 100 units @ $600 each). Is there a way to solve for posting multiple invoices other than increasing the quantity on the PO line?
--Nancy
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