This course provides an understanding of how to use the Business-to-Business (B2B) Contracting functionality in IFS Applications. This functionality makes it possible for external contractors to tender on work orders prepared within an organization. This course makes it possible to outsource maintenance tasks, provides an easy to use web portal for the contractor to submit work order tenders and makes it possible to handle documents in a simple manner throughout the work order tender process creating a purchase order automatically, to be confirmed by the contractor. Reporting on the work order makes it possible to keep track of hours spent and work done on a work order released to a B2B contractor.
A contractor user must be defined in order to perform the work order tender flow from the B2B web interface.
The estimated time to complete this course is 8 hours.
This course was designed primarily for application consultants within Maintenance, employees working within this area and external contractors.
This chapter covers the following functionality: inviting prequalified contractors to tender on a work order, submitting a work order tender by a contractor, awarding the work order tender and confirming the awarded work order tender by the contractor.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have completed creating a work order and defined the basic data for B2B Contracting.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 3 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for application consultants within Maintenance, employees working within this area and external contractors.
This chapter covers the following functionality: indicating that work has been started or done by a B2B contractor, a B2B contractor reporting employee information and hours spent on the work order, and also actions performed within the organization such as authorizing transactions, closing the purchase order and concluding the work order.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have approved a contractor on a work order tender.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for application consultants within Maintenance, employees working within this area and external contractors.
This chapter covers the following functionality: defining a user as a B2B contractor, setting up a contractor portal view using the B2B interface, setting up a list of approved contractors used for work order tenders, defining priorities, discoveries, symptoms, classes, fault types, performed actions, causes, maintenance organizations, document classes and formats to be used through the B2B interface.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have entered the basic data for equipment.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 3 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for application consultants within Maintenance and employees working within this area.