Warranty for components

Question

my reuqirement is Iam creating Laptop(asset) as equipment in ie01 ,
i need to maintian warranties for Laptop which is header one
under this i need to maintain warranties for componets of laptop example ,anti virus( expiry of anti virus ) and key board warranty perios and some other soft wares warranty details
for above requirement
i created laptop as equipment and i maintained the warranty for laptop and  componets of laptop like anti virus, monitor and key board  i maintained as charctertsics, i asiged this chartceristcs to Laptop(eqipment in ie02)
but my requirement is i need to  maintain waranty for compoents  of laptop also
how can i map this requirement

Answer 1

Hi Sukender,
  I think you can map this requirement better by making monitor, keyboard and antivirus as sub-equipment. I guess the warranty provided to the laptop and to anti-virus,etc will be different , hence you can have different warranty for all the sub-equipment of a superior equipment.
   With a BOM like structure ,for the equipment, you can't map the warranty requirement. More ever i would suggest you to cretae a template reference superior equipment and then with copy referenece , you can create the equipments (laptop).
Also if you have created charecterictics say as hours for the laptop,then with the BOM like structure you will not be able to assign the same to the anti-virus. So in  your case its beneficial to have equipment hierarachy to have different warranties.
Regards
Harish