Offset and Start in Cycle

How do offset and start in cycle differ? What is basic difference between them?
what is the necessity of having both function in SAP PM?

Maintenance package offset
The offset of a maintenance package or maintenance cycle determines the
    time after which a maintenance package first becomes due.
You must enter an offset when the first time a maintenance package is to be performed does not correspond with the cycle length.
In the case of multiple counter plans or maintenance cyles,you can use the offset to perform a maintenanc pckage once only, by maintaining the offset
Example
Cycle length of maintenance package:every two years
First time due (offset): after three years
Logically we can say
Start of cycle is Start date of Maintenance plan,
Offset is time after which a maintenance package first becomes due.
Logically you can get detailed help be pressing F1 at the Offset field.Logic behind my answer was F1.
Reward points if it helps!!

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hi
i think specifying start of the cycle for each maintenance level is not possible ,since start of the cycle refers to maintenance plan only .
for SAP standard kindly refer the following [link|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/94/43a968abc011d395bd00a0c93029cf/content.htm]
it is better to create one maintenance item per maintenance plan,if you want to control each maintenance item independently
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Thank you for your advice. It´s not checked. I'll try to explain better this issue. I don´t urderstand why two plans with the same parameters doesn´t work in the same way:
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Don,
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Dear all,
I opened a OSS message. SAP replied that this is not covered by SAP standard. so system works as designed.
SAP:
The described behaviour is the SAP/R3 standard and works as designed.
IP16 only shows this field if it's updated in MPLA-STADT.
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I was told to take a look at note 11:
Sehr geehrte Kundin, sehr geehrter Kunde,
die von Ihnen benötigte Funktionalität ist leider nicht im SAP-Standardsystem enthalten.
Wenn Sie mit SAP an zukünftiger Produktfunktionalität arbeiten möchten, empfehlen wir Ihnen, dies entweder über die Mitarbeit in einer SAP Anwendergruppe oder über die Mitarbeit in einer der SAP Communities of Innovation zu tun. Eine Liste aller SAP Anwendergruppen finden Sie unter http://www.sapusergroups.org.
Eine Beschreibung der SAP Communities of Innovation können Sie unter http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/communities/index.epx einsehen.
Alternativ können Sie spezielle, von Ihnen gewünschte Funktionalität von SAP Custom Development entwickeln lassen (http://www.sap.com/services/bysubject/customdev).
Weiterführende Informationen finden Sie unter http://service.sap.com/rollin.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ihr SAP Active Global Support
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