Dear Experts,
We have a big volume of mobile assets that constantly relocate to different plants in the company. The current process that we follow to relocate these assets is via ABT1N (for Intercompany transfers), because almost 90% of the total assets transferred are moved to different plant/company codes.
However, this process is extremely cumbersome since most of these assets are structured with various sub-assets. The asset transfer process requires to manually create the new assets and sub-assets in the new location and then execute ABT1N in mass mode.
I was looking at the alternative to simplify this process by using work lists and have the new assets created on the fly with reference to the original assets/sub-assets, but this alternative offers some challenges as well:
a) I can't not seem to be able to create a substitution rule that will be triggered when I release the WL. This substitution is required to derive the new Cost center and plant for the new assets. Substitutions only seem to work for the "bulk changes" and neither for Interco Transfers, nor retirements within the worklist.
b) When the worklist is released and gets into an error, I have not any option to re- release it and I have to create a new WL for the same group of assets every time.
I was wondering if anyone out there has dealt with these same scenarios that can provide with some insights or ideas to overcome a) and b) above. The organization is looking at some 3rd-party applications that interact with SAP and help simplify mass transfers and retirements, but I still believe that there may be a simple way, using standard functions.
Thanks,