The Building Blocks
The method to be used when there are many suppliers who can provide the service or material, but one supplier is chosen based on prior experience or other technical or commercial considerations.
What is Single Sourcing?
The location of the form to set-up a new supplier in Maximo.
What is the Business Automation Platform (BAP)?
This is an agreement made with suppliers, but NOT a commitment to spend.
What is a contract?
This is where I can find the most up to date job aids, training videos, and additional Maximo resources.
What is the Supply Chain Maximo Training SharePoint site?
The method acceptable to be used when a supplier has a specific patent on a good or service, so no other suppliers are able to compete by offering that particular good or service.
What is Sole Sourcing?
The status(es) in which a PO must be in to complete receipts.
What is APPR or DISPATCH status?
These are the 2 contract types used in Maximo
What are Master Contracts & Purchase Contracts?
This button in Maximo is used for printing labels.
What is the 'Reports' button?
The location in the Start Center you can find items requiring actions by you.
What is My Workflow Assignments?
This functionality is used to import all PR information into the Purchase Order.
What is "Copy PR Line Items to PO"?
This is used for repetitive purchases of services and items/materials.
What is a purchase contract?
Used to store information internally within a record instead of comments.
What is a Work Log?
Tool used to quickly access a frequently used record.
What is a Bookmark?
What is cancel the PO and issue a new PO to the correct vendor?
These are the 3 contract types used in the Purchase Contract application within Maximo.
What are Price, Blanket, and Purchase Contracts?
Used internally and externally for discussion with a specific person(s), permanently stored within the record, and sent to recipient(s) as an email communication.
What is a Communication Log?
This is created if you don't 'Sign Out' of Maximo.
What is a Ghost Session?
This is a correct naming convention for Contracts.
What is Supply Chain Group - Contract Type - Category - Vendor Name?
These are the 4 contract types used in the Master Contract application within Maximo.
What are Alliance, Terms, Pricing, and Sourced Agreements?
This is what happens to service invoices in Maximo that exceed the PO amount.
What is "automatically routed to the buyer"?