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Asset/Work Management

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Remove inspection forms.

Our clients have many inspection forms that they want to remove but there is not option for that. They can Inactivate them, but it is not enough due the information still displaying in the inspection list and these forms are garbage.
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Work Orders (RBA) - Communication Log to indicate the number of attachments

If a work order has a lot of communication records, then you may be interested in a communication with an attachment, but it is not possible to discover which communication log record has an attachment without opening each with the View full messa...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Manage Inspection Forms - The system should allow you to create a checklist type form to perform walk through inspections

There are many scenarios where a checklist (table) format inspection can be utilized. Housekeeping uses a Check list to mark if specific tasks were done in a particular day of the week.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Improved information about received costs

Preface Being the GL Account Owner (GAO) and by that the budget responsible, It’s important to me that all my approvals and receiving actions come with very clear information. Doing approx. 240 PO approvals followed by same 240 receiving actions I...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Future consideration

Announce number of open receipts on the two tabs in the Receiving app

Preface Having approx. 400 work orders processed on monthly basis, such would become 6,000 work orders (WOs) on yearly basis. Having at least one purchase order (PO) per WO, approvals and followed by receipts the GL Account Owner (GAO) must alloca...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Text entry fields in Inspection Forms and Results should support text wrapping.

This feature would allow text to automatically move to the next line when it reaches the end of the text box, making it easier to read and manage longer entries.
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Spare Part Auto Add should not add a part when the issue type is 'RETURN'

Spare Part Auto Add function appears to add parts even when the issue type is 'RETURN' and it should not. When issue is errant and someone goes to fix the asset spare part manually, but someone else later returns the part, the RETURN transaction w...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Maximo needs a Job Plan Central Library

Job Plan Central Library that will include the following requirements:  The definition of a mechanism to create a Central Job Plan Library in Maximo  Ability to assemble Model level Job plans by including sub job plans from library (Similar to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

When Asset Costing is used the work/job plan material should have the option of how to derive the unit cost

Currently when asset costing is used the work plan materials unit cost will be zero even if all the rotating assets in the storeroom have the same inventory cost. A unit cost should be added (it can easily be missed by the planner) otherwise you a...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Future consideration

In Asset/Location Applications, display what Inspections forms are currently associated to Asset in 'Associate Inspection Form' dialog

Assets and/or Locations may have multiple inspection forms associated to them. To manage an individual asset/location - it would be very helpful to see what Inspection Forms are currently associated with that asset/location. The existing dialog ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration