Purchase order processing covers the management of purchase orders for equipment, parts, and services for maintenance, repair, and operations.

You use this business process to schedule work orders and operations that have been planned but still need to be scheduled. Maintenance scheduling matches the availability of maintenance labor and material resources to work-order-based requests.

The inbound processing process confirms receipt of goods and covers the physical inbound delivery processing that succeeds the procurement process. It includes advance shipping notice processing, physical goods receipt, and the sending proof-of-delivery to business partners.

Incoming invoices are verified in terms of their content, prices, and arithmetic in this process.

One or more characteristics of a part or a service is measured, examined, tested, and gauged in this process, and is then compared to specified requirements to determine whether each characteristic meets those requirements.

The service entry process confirms executed work.

An innovative way of integrating all documents in your work processes and making them available at any time, document management allows all file types (such as text, graphic, CAD, and office) to be managed and linked to many business objects (such as materials, bill of materials, sales orders, and equipment).