Container Control Repair History

This section of the Equipment master keeps the history of repairs of a container, if there is any, and only if it has been recorded in accounting through an accounts payable invoice. When an accounts payable is created to pay repair services, two things happen in the system: first, it will create a RPRD or a FIX record in the equipment master history, meaning that the unit was sent to repair and second, an entry in the repair history showing the date, description, the name of the vendor, the invoice number and the amount. It is very important to use a specific general ledger account ‘equipment repair’ with the Equipment required set to ‘YES” This G/L account is specified as the ‘repair account’ in the line defaults table. Whenever a payable invoice is created using this G/L account, an equipment number must be associated with it, and, once posted, will also create an equipment history record with the transaction RPRD (repaired). This repair history view references those invoice line items and will display the invoice date, the detail as entered in the invoice, the vendor being paid, and the amount of the line item.

To view the invoice, just highlight it and hit Enter or double-click on it with the mouse. You will see in the detail of the invoice, the description and the specific account that requires a container number