Equipment Status to INAC

[preethialevarthi]

Hi Team,

If we update equipment status to INAC will the corresponding asset in FI be also updated with deletion flag or do we need to go for an enhancement.

Regards,

Preethi

[VijayGS]

Hi Preethi,

Usually the status change of equipment master would not impact the asset master in standard set-up. I believe this is intentional as there are different consequences in Financial Accounting, including the impacts on the company balance sheet.

Hence you need to speak with your Finance expert and if agreed, come up with a suitable enhancement. It could be an email that get's triggered to finance & maintenance planner associated with the finance asset and equipment master respectively. I wouldn't suggest any automated change on the Finance Asset based on changes in the Technical Asset (such as equipment or functional location). For example, setting the status INAC could be from technical perspective and the asset in Financial Accounting may have to remain. Business may want to bring back the Technical Asset (equipment here) from INAC to AVLB or INST.

Anyhow, I would suggest you consult your Finance counterpart and decide the custom action you want to take here.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

[Ritesh_PR]

Hi Preethialevarthi,

Equipment-Asset synchronization (by standard) can be done only for a predefined set of fields. In the IMG route: Financial Accounting -> Asset Accounting -> Master Data -> Automatic creation of equipment master records -> Assign Master Data fields of Assets and Equipment, you can find the fields that can be mapped.

Before this you have to map asset class with equipment category and give conditions in "Specify conditions for synchronization of Master Date" node.

If you want to synchronize more fields, you have to go with "Develop Enhancement for Field and Class Assignment" IMG node (Customer Enhancement: AAPM0001). It is recommended to only create a synchronization between data fields for which the following is true:

• The fields are defined syntactically the same. (Not same in the case of INAC eqp. status and deletion of asset)

• The fields are not primary or foreign keys.

Refer note : 370884 - PM-AA 4.6C: Consulting on sync activation + corrections - SAP for Me

Alternatively:
You can use the BADI: EQUI_UPDATE or User Exit: IEQM0003 to detect equipment status change to INAC (Status type code = 'I0320').

For updating the asset master record, you can use the functional module ASSET_MASTERRECORD_MAINTENANCE. Field for deletion flag: I_ANLA - XSPEB

Hope this answer gave you a brief overview to help your case.

Regards,
Ritesh PR