🔍 Key Concepts
• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) typical modules and what each one tracks
• Difference between internal tracking (inventory, equipment, maintenance planning) and external transactions with vendors
• How purchasing / procurement is normally initiated, tracked, and recorded in a CMMS
đź’ Think About
• For each option, ask: Is this module mainly about what we already have on board, what we plan to do to equipment, or about buying something from an outside company?
• Which module would store documents and records that go TO or come FROM outside suppliers (like part orders or repair service orders)?
• Think about the logical order: request a need, approve it, then create a formal order to a vendor. Which step produces a purchase order?
âś… Before You Answer
• For Inventory management, confirm whether it mainly tracks quantities and locations of spares vs. actual vendor orders.
• For Requisitions management, distinguish between an internal request for parts/services and the formal purchase order sent to a vendor.
• Check which module name most clearly fits the function of creating and tracking formal purchase orders to external vendors, not just planning maintenance or listing equipment.