Planning plant is Plant Maintenance Concept. To group the business process & reporting, planning plant will be defined.
Generally Resources (Labors & Components) will be planned on Planning plant & the same will be assigned for the orders. Maintenance Order will be created on Planning Plant & executed in plants.
It is not compulsory to have different planning plant, you can use your own maintenance plants as planning plant.
Area of Configuration
Maintain Maintenance Planning Plant
IMG transaction Menu path :
Enterprise structure -> Definition -> Plant Maintenance -> Maintain Maintenance Planning Plant
Transaction code for above menu path: SPRO
Details of Configuration/changes :
E.g.
All the plants defined for KBL (Except the C & F plants) are defined as planning plants. The reason for this is that the service activities are carried out from each of these plants.
Recommendation
You should always use maintenance planning plants if the maintenance planning is carried out centrally for several plants in one plant. If, from a PM perspective, each plant stands alone, then each plant is also its own planning plant.
Notes
The maintenance planning plants must first have been created as normal plants.
If all the plants in your organizational structure are also maintenance planning plants, then you must include each of these plants as a maintenance planning plant.
