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Undertaking an SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation, upgrade, or optimization project? Bring your plant maintenance system to life with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to configure EAM to support planning, execution, and settlement processes for plant maintenance measures. Get step-by-step instructions to align order processing, calibration, and refurbishment to customer-specific requirements, and learn how to avoid common obstacles.
Topic Highlights
- Organizational structures
- Functional configuration
- Notification processing
- Order handling
- Preventative maintenance
- Special process configuration
- Usability
- Maintenance plans
- Task list configuration
- Technical systems configuration
Highlights:
- Order handling
- Customizing
- Maintenance planning and processing
- Mapping: orders and functions
- Preventative maintenance
- External processing
- Linear Asset Management
- Pool Asset Management
- Subcontracting
- Deadline monitoring
- Cross-plant maintenance
- BAdIs
List of contents
Acknowledgments ... 11
1. About This Book ... 13
1.1 Target Audience ... 14
1.2 What This Book Can and Cannot Do ... 15
1.3 Structure of This Book ... 16
1.4 How to Read This Book ... 17
2. SAP Projects in Plant Maintenance ... 21
2.1 A Possible Process for Your SAP Plant Maintenance Project ... 21
2.2 General Risk Factors and Success Factors in SAP Projects: An Empirical Survey ... 28
2.3 Tips for Your Plant Maintenance Project ... 32
3. Organizational Structures ... 73
3.1 General SAP Organizational Units ... 74
3.2 The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective ... 85
3.3 Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units ... 89
3.4 Work Centers ... 93
4. Generic Functions ... 105
4.1 Object Information ... 106
4.2 Status Management ... 108
4.3 Number Assignment ... 114
4.4 Warranties ... 117
4.5 Measuring Points and Counters ... 121
4.6 Permits ... 125
4.7 Partners ... 127
4.8 Documents ... 133
4.9 Field Selection ... 142
4.10 List Variants ... 146
4.11 Multilevel Lists ... 150
5. Structuring of Technical Systems ... 153
5.1 Structuring Elements ... 153
5.2 Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations ... 155
5.3 Equipment ... 167
5.4 Fleet Management ... 177
5.5 Links and Networks ... 186
5.6 Linear Asset Management ...189
5.7 Materials and Assemblies ... 201
5.7.1 Material Types ... 202
5.7.2 Field Selection ... 218
5.8 Serial Numbers ... 225
5.9 Bill of Material ... 232
6. Maintenance Processing ... 243
6.1 Notifications ... 245
6.2 Orders ... 279
6.3 Completion Confirmations ... 408
7. Preventive Maintenance ... 419
7.1 Task Lists ... 421
7.2 Maintenance Plans ... 431
8. Additional Business Processes ... 437
8.1 External Processing ... 438
8.2 Refurbishment ... 454
8.3 Subcontracting ... 471
8.4 Calibration of Test/Measurement Equipment ... 477
8.5 Pool Asset Management ... 514
8.6 Maintenance Event Builder ... 533
8.7 Shift Reports and Shift Notes ... 535
9. Usability ... 547
9.1 Category 1: The User's Own Options ... 549
9.2 Category 2: The IT Department's Nonprogramming Options ... 568
9.3 Category 3: The IT Department's Programming Options ... 589
Appendices ... 609
A. Project Plans and Overviews ... 609
A.1 Functional Scope of SAP EAM and Assignment of Priorities ... 609
A.2 Authorization Objects in SAP EAM ... 614
A.3 BAPIs for Plant Maintenance ... 616
A.4 Customer Exits for Plant Maintenance ... 623
B. The Author ... 629
Index ... 631
