Plant maintenance with SAP Enterprise Asset Management (SAP EAM) is more than just a routine checkup. Use this must-have guide to structure your functional locations, capture shift notes and shift reports, and much more. Dive into the technical underpinning of SAP PM, from material and plant maintenance assemblies to linear asset management. Discover best practices and real-world tips to make your SAP PM job easier.
Best Practices for Your Day-to-Day Duties
Harness the power of SAP PM with real-world best practices and strategies. Discover critical SAP PM functionality like shift notes, shift reports, and preventative maintenance.
Specialized Functionality and Framework
Master SAP PM business processes, from planned repairs and refurbishment, to subcontracting, and pool asset management. Map and implement these processes to your specialized requirements with detailed guides to optimize SAP PM daily workload.
Under-the-Hood Insight
Explore technologies both old and new; see how SAP Work Manager, SAP Rounds Manager, SAP Business Client, and SAP HANA can impact your day-to-day with SAP PM.
Topics covered include:
- Organizational structures
- Business process alignment
- Shift notes and shift reports
- Linear asset management
- Integration
- Usability
- Controlling maintenance
- SAP Enterprise Portal
- SAP Business Client
- Preventative maintenance
- Mobile applications
- SAP HANA and SAP PM
Plant Maintenance and SAP: A Contradiction?
Plant Maintenance Today: New Ideas Need New Space
New Maintenance Terminology
Maintenance Strategies over Time
Plant Maintenance over Time in SAP
SAP GUI and SAP Business Client
- Connection Options
- General Functions
SAP Organizational Units
- The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective
- Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units
- Other General Organizational Units
- Plant-Specific and Cross-Plant Maintenance
Structuring of Technical Systems
Actions before Mapping Your Technical Systems in the SAP System
Question 1: Which Structuring Resources
Should Be Used?
Question 2: How Deep Should the Structure
Be?
Question 3: Which Criteria Should Be Applied
to the Structuring of Technical Systems?
Question 4: On Which Structure Level Should
a Particular Resource Be Used?
Question 5: How Are Numbers Assigned?
Question 6: Which Information Should You
Store?
Question 7: How Is the Master Data Incorporated
into the SAP System?
Question 8: Is it Easy to Delete Data
Records?
Question 9: Which of the Functions Available
Should Be Used?
Question 10: Which Strategy Should You
Pursue When Recording Master Data?
SAP Resources for Structuring Technical Systems and How to Use Them
- Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations
- Equipment and Serial Numbers
- Links and Object Networks
- Linear Asset Management
- Material and PM Assemblies
- Bills of Materials
- Classification
- Product Structure Browser
- Asset Viewer
- Special Functions
What You Should Do before You Map Your Business Processes in the SAP System
Question 1: Which Functions Should You
Use?
Question:2 Should You Use a Notification
and/or an Order?
Question 3: Which Information Should You
Store?
Question 4: How Can You Ensure That Users
Accept the System?
Question 5: What Role Does Business Process
Modeling Play?
Question 6: When Should You Include the
Other User Departments?
"Planned Repairs" Business Process
- Notification
- Planning
- Controlling
- Processing
- Completion
- Creating Order (with Notification) and Completion
- Special Case: "After-Event Recording"
- Confirming Unscheduled Tasks
- Historical Order
"External Assignment" Business Process
- Basic Principles of External Assignment
- External Processing as an Individual Purchase Order
- External Services with External Work Centers
- External Processing with Service Specifications
"Subcontracting" Business Process
"Preventive Maintenance" Business Process
- Basic Principles of Preventive Maintenance
- Objects of Preventive Maintenance
- Maintenance Task Lists
- Preventive Maintenance, Time-Based
- Preventive Maintenance, Performance-Based
- Preventive Maintenance, Time-Based and Performance-Based
- Inspection Rounds
"Calibration of Test Equipment" Business Process
"Follow-Up Order" Business Process
"Pool Asset Management" Business Process
"Project-Based Maintenance" Business Process
- SAP Project System
- Maintenance Event Builder
How Other Departments Are Involved
Integration within SAP ERP
- Materials Management
- Production Planning and Control
- Digression: In-house Production of Spare Parts for Stock
- Quality Management
Financial Accounting
Asset Accounting
Controlling
Real Estate Management
Human Capital Management
Service and Sales
Integration with Other SAP Systems
- SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management
- SAP Master Data Governance
- SAP Supplier Relationship Management
- Operations Monitoring Systems
- Operations Information Systems
- Service Specifications and Entry of Services Performed
What Plant Maintenance Controlling Involves
SAP Tools for Obtaining Information and How to Use Them
- SAP List Viewer
- QuickViewer
- SAP ERP Logistics Information System
- SAP Business Warehouse
- SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
- Order Budgeting
- Cost Center Budgeting
- Budgeting with SAP Programs
- Budgeting Using WBS Elements
- Maintenance Cost Budgeting
Electronic Parts Catalogs
New Technologies in the User Interface
- SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer
- SAP Fiori
- Quick Views
- Fundamentals of Mobile Maintenance
- Paging
- SAP Work Manager
- SAP Rounds Manager
- SAP Fiori Apps for Plant Maintenance
- RFID
- Introduction to SAP HANA
- SAP HANA and Maintenance
SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service
SAP Asset Intelligence Network
Usability
What Is Meant by Usability?
Assessing Usability
Why Usability Does Not Mean User Acceptance
The Importance of User Acceptance in Plant Maintenance
SAP System Options to Improve Usability
- General User Parameters
- Maintenance-Specific User Parameters
- Roles and Favorites
- List Variants
- Customizing Input Help
- Buttons and Key Combinations
- Table Controls
- Transaction Variants
- Customizing
- Action Box
- GuiXT
- SAP Screen Personas
- Upstream Transactions
- Web Interface
- Customer Exits
- Other Programming Techniques
- Preparation and Execution
- Results
- Conclusions
| Author's background
and qualifications
Dr. Karl Liebstückel is a professor of information management and business software at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has been the chairman of the German SAP User Group (DSAG) since 2007 and leads its Plant Maintenance and Service Management work group. |
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