Plant Maintenance with SAP: Business User Guide

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 make to your SAP PM job easier.

a. Best Practices for Your Day-to-Day Duties
Harness the power of SAP EAM with real-world best practices and strategies. Discover critical SAP EAM functionality like shift notes, shift reports, and preventative maintenance.

b. Specialized Functionality and Framework
Master SAP EAM 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.

c. 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.

4th edition updated and expanded

Autorentext
Dr. Karl Liebstückel is Professor of Information Management and Business Software at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has been Chairman of the German SAP User Group (DSAG) since 2007 and leads its Plant Maintenance and Service Management work group.

Zusammenfassung
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 make to your SAP PM job easier.

Inhalt
... Preface to the Fourth Edition ... 15

... Preface to the First Edition ... 17

1 ... About This Book ... 19

1.1 ... Target Audience ... 21

1.2 ... What This Book Can and Cannot Do ... 22

1.3 ... Structure of This Book ... 23

2 ... Plant Maintenance and SAP: A Contradiction? ... 27

2.1 ... Plant Maintenance Today: New Ideas Need New Space ... 28

2.2 ... New Maintenance Terminology ... 30

2.3 ... Maintenance Strategies over Time ... 34

2.4 ... Plant Maintenance over Time in SAP ... 37

2.5 ... SAP ERP 6.0 ... 38

2.6 ... SAP GUI and SAP Business Client ... 43

3 ... Organizational Structures ... 51

3.1 ... SAP Organizational Units ... 51

3.2 ... Work Centers ... 57

4 ... Structuring of Technical Systems ... 65

4.1 ... Actions before Mapping Your Technical Systems in the SAP System ... 66

4.2 ... SAP Resources for Structuring Technical Systems and How to Use Them ... 81

5 ... Business Processes ... 161

5.1 ... What You Should Do before You Map Your Business Processes in the SAP System ... 162

5.2 ... Planned Repairs Business Process ... 170

5.3 ... Immediate Repairs Business Process ... 247

5.4 ... Shift Notes and Shift Reports ... 256

5.5 ... External Assignment Business Process ... 263

5.6 ... Refurbishment Business Process ... 280

5.7 ... Subcontracting Business Process ... 291

5.8 ... Preventive Maintenance Business Process ... 299

5.9 ... Condition-Based Maintenance Business Process ... 360

5.10 ... Calibration of Test Equipment Business Process ... 364

5.11 ... Follow-Up Order Business Process ... 375

5.12 ... Pool Asset Management Business Process ... 377

5.13 ... Project-Based Maintenance Business Process ... 385

6 ... Integrating Applications from Other Departments ... 397

6.1 ... How Other Departments Are Involved ... 397

6.2 ... Integration within SAP ERP ... 398

6.3 ... Integration with Other SAP Systems ... 448

6.4 ... Integration with Non-SAP Systems ... 457

7 ... Plant Maintenance Controlling ... 467

7.1 ... What Plant Maintenance Controlling Involves ... 467

7.2 ... SAP Tools for Obtaining Information and How to Use Them ... 471

7.3 ... SAP Tools for Budgeting and How to Use Them ... 512

8 ... New Information Technologies in Plant Maintenance ... 531

8.1 ... Electronic Parts Catalogs ... 532

8.2 ... New Technologies in the User Interface ... 534

8.3 ... Mobile Maintenance ... 542

8.4 ... SAP HANA ... 569

8.5 ... SAP S/4HANA ... 575

8.6 ... SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service ... 578

8.7 ... SAP Asset Intelligence Network ... 581

9 ... Usability ... 591

9.1 ... What Is Meant by Usability? ... 592

9.2 ... Assessing Usability ... 597

9.3 ... Why Usability Does Not Mean User Acceptance ... 598

9.4 ... The Importance of User Acceptance in Plant Maintenance ... 601

9.5 ... SAP System Options to Improve Usability ... 604

9.6 ... Usability Study for SAP ERP 6.0 ... 634

... Appendices ... 647

A ... List of Sources ... 649

B ... Overviews ... 655

C ... The Author ... 671

D ... Acknowledgments ... 673