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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....
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Labor rate contracts and planned updates

Labor rate contracts As a Maximo Specialist or a Maximo SysAdmin, I kindly ask to have the possibility to update existing Labor Rate Contracts with new prices and plan a specific activation date for when the new prices will be the ones in play, so...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Built-in functionality to do batch approvals of labor should be adjusted

Maximo has built-in functionality to do batch approvals of labor. It is, however, a very powerful tool. Seems from the perspective of MaxAdmin, it is too powerful. Few adjustments and the tool is for everyone. As an AOM, I need to be informed abou...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Ability to do receipts within the actual tab on the WO​

Being the Asset Operational Manager as well as the Contractor Lead, all daily work is concentrated on the WO. What's to be done, what's planned, which costs, reporting on performed work etc. End of the day, WOs completed by the contractor are subj...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Ability to approve Hours from the actual tab on the WO​

Ability to approve Hours from the actual tab on the WO​ - and if centralized setting dictates, have Maximo to do auto receipt​ Being the Asset Operational Manager as well as the Contractor Lead, all daily work is concentrated on the WO. What's to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest

Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest. I.e. when new costs appear on a WO, Maximo search for an existing PO, does a revision and add the new costs to that PO. Being an (almost) administrative organization having c...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Centralized setting to ensure to have auto receipts after approvals of Hours, Services, Materials, Tools​

Having multiple roles on same persons in your organization, multiple approvals on same WO/PO can be avoided. Having done the approval, no need for Maximo to ask the same person once again to do receipts (on the stuff he has just approved). Impleme...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Introducing WO templates​ to support user's easiness in creating manual work orders

Introducing WO templates​ * Per role / per user​ containing - Operation area​ - GL account from the Asset (based on Operation Area)​ - Vendor​ - Asset Operation Manager​ - Vendor’s responsible​ * Holds most used data (or favorite data) seen f...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to create index's through the front end that have includes

We would like the ability to create index's with includes in them to Example: CREATE INDEX CUSTOMIX_failurelist_1 ON [dbo].[failurelist] ([parent], [type]) INCLUDE ([failurecode]) We can complete this with help from a DBA but creating the base...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

In all variations of Maximo, when calculating non-persistent attribute CONDITION.REFCOUNT please ignore the archive tables.

Attribute CONDITION.REFCOUNT is non-persistent and dynamically calculates where the condition is used/referenced. It is only possible to delete a condition when REFCOUNT is zero. If audit is enabled (EAUDITENABLED=1) on a table where the a condi...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement: if you check Payment on Receipt either in the Companies application or on the PO itself when you receive the PO lines it will automatically create a "WAPPR" invoice rather than an "APRR" invoice.

After receiving line Items from a PO and completing it, when generating the invoice from the "Payment on Receipt" checkbox, the status of the invoice is "WAPPR" by default and therefore it allows finance AP to enter "Vendor Invoice Number" or any ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

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