The process of Relocation of a Technical Object integrates into plenty of Defense and Security applications and areas like Transport Management (TM) or Project System (PS). Defense Maintenance is supporting this process by displaying the result of a relocation as relationships on Master Equipment level.
Master Equipment can be connected to a Force Element using two Relationships: Owner and Utilizer. Those relationships integrate to the Material Authorization and Status Management processes of the Defense and Security solution. The Owner Relationship is created by a direct binding between the Force Element and a Master Equipment. This can be processed in the Manage Force Element application. As with other relationships in Defense and Security, we have additional attributes like start and end dates to manage relationships for specific time intervals.
The Utilizer is determined by the MEQs (Master Equipment) Storage Location.
This figure displays the applications where the relationships get defined.
This figure displays the aggregation result of the Owner/Utilizer Relationship at Master Equipment level.
If the Technical Object is moved to a new unit on a permanent basis, the owner of the Technical Object is changed. Such change of an owner integrates into Material Authorizations and planner can identify gaps between the authorized number of Technical Objects for a specific unit and the number it actually owns. If there are no changes in authorizations and Unit A relocates a Technical Object to Unit B by changing the ownership, Unit A is authorized for another Helicopter. This can be displayed in the AAC.
In another example, the Technical Object is moved to a new unit on a non-permanent basis. An example would be a limited time move for a specific operation or training. Since the Object is still owned by Unit A and just utilized by Unit B, Unit A is not authorized to receive another Helicopter. The Helicopter will be located back to Unit A after the operation or training is finished. For changing such relationship, the SLoc of the MEQ is changed by posting a goods movement.
Defense Maintenance further supports the check and update of maintenance related SAP objects. As Unit B could be responsible to perform maintenance activities for the time it utilizes the Technical Object, there is the need for a user to check if the new unit organizational data (Plant, Responsible Work Center, Cost Center and Profit Center) is up to date.