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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Service Provider
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2026

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Workorder transactions and Pricebook ?

A “Price Book” in IBM Maximo Application Suite is essentially a catalog of rates and charges used to calculate costs for transactions such as labor, tools, services, and materials. It defines the pricing rules that Maximo applies when you record work orders, purchase orders, or other transactions.

The issue is that Maximo doesn't store which price book (and its revision) was used when applying prices to work order transactions, creating an audit trail gap. Maximo retrieves and applies prices from price books But doesn't store the price book reference or version. Transaction tables (LABTRANS, TOOLTRANS, SERVRECTRANS) lack these fields. No way to audit which price book determined the cost.

We wish that is reference for labor transactions that shows in the interface which price book has been used in workorder transaction.
This reference is desired to be in the product, instead of a separate configuration.
It is desirable that it is saved on the transaction and that the current revision of the price book is also saved on the transaction.
This is to be able to follow up and see what was applicable at the given time.
This applies to all types of price books/transactions – LABORATORY, TOOL, SERVICE, etc.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Month
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Sep 18, 2026

    Hi,

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. Our team has reviewed your idea, and we would like to evaluate the market reach further before we make a decision. So we will leave it here as Future Consideration for others to show support by voting and commenting. We will reevaluate within the next 6months and decide based on the additional feedback. Thank you again for your idea.

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    THOMAS Knowles
    Sep 18, 2026

    Thank you for submitting the idea, we appreciate the feedback. We have accepted the idea and will take it into future consideration. Until we can deliver this update you can determine which price book price was applied by comparing the date of the work order transaction where it is between the effective date and end date of the price book.

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