Configuring Plant Maintenance in SAP S/4HANA

Book Information

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Authors: Karl Liebstückel
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 2
• Pages: 725
• Languages: English

Description

To successfully manage assets in SAP S/4HANA, you need to tailor plant maintenance to your exact specifications. This book is your step-by-step guide! Plan your plant maintenance project, and then dive into detailed configuration for the organizational structure, generic functions, and technical systems. Follow click-by-click instructions to set up key secondary processes, including refurbishment, subcontracting, and pool asset management. Get details on the SAP Fiori launchpad and usability to customize your system from end to end!

• Set up work order cycles, preventive maintenance, and other asset management processes in your system
• Configure SAP S/4HANA with step-by-step instructions
• Customize the SAP Fiori launchpad for plant maintenance

Key Highlights

• Organizational units
• Generic functions
• Technical systems
• Work order cycle
• Preventative maintenance
• Refurbishment
• Subcontracting
• Checklists
• Phase model
• SAP Service and Asset Manager
• SAP Fiori launchpad
• Usability

You'll learn about

• System Setup:
  Configure the core organizational units for plant maintenance in SAP S/4HANA. Find the step-by-step instructions need you for system-wide functions such as permits and list variants and technical systems such as equipment and functional locations.
• Process Configuration:
  Set up the processes that are relevant for your organization’s unique asset management requirements: external processing, refurbishment, subcontracting, checklists, equipment calibration, the new phase model work order cycle, and more.
• UI and Usability:
  Don’t forget about your end users! Craft the best user experience by configuring the SAP Fiori launchpad and learn about key applications. Walk through usability options such as user parameters and table controls, and then implement helpful customer exits and workflows.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments

• About the Book
• What Is the Correct Naming Convention?
• Who This Book Is For
• What This Book Can and Can’t Do
• Structure of Contents
• How to Read This Book
• What’s New in This Book?
• What Is the Status of Your SAP S/4HANA System?

• 1 SAP Projects in Plant Maintenance
• 1.1 A Possible Process for Your Plant Maintenance Project with SAP
• 1.1.1 Implementation Strategy
• 1.1.2 SAP Activate Methodology
• 1.2 General Risk Factors and Success Factors in SAP Projects: An Empirical Survey
• 1.2.1 Risk Factors
• 1.2.2 Success Factors
• 1.3 Tips for Your Plant Maintenance Project
• 1.3.1 Discover Phase
• 1.3.2 Prepare Phase
• 1.3.3 Explore Phase
• 1.3.4 Realize Phase
• 1.3.5 Deploy Phase
• 1.3.6 Run Phase
• 1.4 Summary

• 2 Configuring Organizational Structures
• 2.1 General SAP Organizational Units
• 2.1.1 Company Code
• 2.1.2 Controlling Area
• 2.1.3 Plant in General
• 2.2 The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective
• 2.3 Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units
• 2.4 Work Centers
• 2.5 Summary

• 3 Configuring Generic Functions
• 3.1 Object Information
• 3.2 Status Management
• 3.3 Number Assignment
• 3.4 Warranties
• 3.5 Measuring Points and Counters
• 3.6 Permits
• 3.7 Partners
• 3.8 Documents
• 3.9 Field Selection
• 3.10 List Variants
• 3.11 Multilevel Lists
• 3.12 Change Documents
• 3.13 Summary

• 4 Configuring the Structure of Technical Systems
• 4.1 Structuring Elements
• 4.2 Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations
• 4.3 Equipment
• 4.4 Fleet Management
• 4.5 Links and Networks
• 4.6 Linear Asset Management
• 4.7 Materials and Assemblies
• 4.7.1 Material Types
• 4.7.2 Material Master Layout
• 4.7.3 Field Selection
• 4.8 Serial Numbers
• 4.9 Bill of Materials
• 4.10 Summary

• 5 Configuring the Work Order Cycle
• 5.1 Notifications
• 5.1.1 Notification Types
• 5.1.2 Catalogs and Catalog Profiles
• 5.1.3 Other Functions
• 5.2 Orders
• 5.2.1 Order Types
• 5.2.2 Availability Check
• 5.2.3 Electronic Parts Catalogs
• 5.2.4 Material Planning
• 5.2.5 Scheduling
• 5.2.6 Capacity Planning
• 5.2.7 Printing
• 5.2.8 Estimated Costs and Costing
• 5.2.9 Order Settlement
• 5.2.10 Project Management and Investment Management
• 5.2.11 Other Functions
• 5.3 Completion Confirmations
• 5.3.1 SAP S/4HANA Asset Management Completion Confirmations
• 5.3.2 Cross-Application Time Sheet Confirmations
• 5.4 Summary

• 6 Configuring Preventive Maintenance
• 6.1 Task Lists
• 6.2 Maintenance Plans
• 6.3 Summary

• 7 Configuring Additional Business Processes
• 7.1 External Processing
• 7.1.1 External Processing as an Individual Purchase Order
• 7.1.2 External Processing with Service Specifications
• 7.2 Refurbishment
• 7.2.1 Material Master
• 7.2.2 Refurbishment Notifications
• 7.2.3 Refurbishment Orders
• 7.2.4 Material Requirements Planning
• 7.3 Subcontracting
• 7.4 Calibration of Test/Measurement Equipment
• 7.4.1 Customizing Functions for Plant Maintenance
• 7.4.2 Customizing Functions for Quality Management
• 7.5 Pool Asset Management
• 7.6 Maintenance Event Builder
• 7.7 Shift Reports and Shift Notes
• 7.8 Checklists
• 7.8.1 Checklist Processing (Basic Version)
• 7.8.2 Checklist Processing (Extended Version)
• 7.9 Work Order Cycle Using the Phase Model
• 7.10 Summary

• 8 Configuring the SAP Fiori Launchpad for Plant Maintenance
• 8.1 Basics of SAP Fiori
• 8.1.1 SAP Fiori Design
• 8.1.2 Types of SAP Fiori Apps
• 8.1.3 Characteristics of SAP Fiori
• 8.2 How to Configure an SAP Fiori Launchpad with SAPUI5 Apps
• 8.2.1 Step 1: Check SAP System Data
• 8.2.2 Step 2: Explore the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library
• 8.2.3 Step 3: Configure OData Services
• 8.2.4 Step 4: Configure ICF Services
• 8.2.5 Step 5: Create a Launchpad Catalog for the SAP Fiori Launchpad
• 8.2.6 Step 6: Create a Business Group for the SAP Fiori Launchpad
• 8.2.7 Step 7: Create a Role and Assign Authorizations
• 8.2.8 Step 8: Initialize the App
• 8.3 Tabular Overview of All SAP Fiori Apps
• 8.4 How to Configure an SAP Fiori Launchpad with Non-SAPUI5 Apps
• 8.4.1 Step 1: Check SAP System Data
• 8.4.2 Step 2: Browse the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library
• 8.4.3 Step 3: Configure OData Services
• 8.4.4 Step 4: Configure ICF Services
• 8.4.5 Step 5: Create a Business Catalog for the SAP Fiori Launchpad
• 8.4.6 Step 6: Create a Business Group for the SAP Fiori Launchpad
• 8.4.7 Step 7: Create or Change a Role and Assign Authorizations
• 8.4.8 Step 8: Initialize the App
• 8.5 Tabular Overview of All Web Dynpro Apps
• 8.6 Summary

• 9 Usability
• 9.1 Options at the User’s Disposal
• 9.1.1 General User Parameters and Default Values
• 9.1.2 Maintenance-Specific User Parameters
• 9.1.3 Roles, Favorites, and My Home
• 9.1.4 List Variants and Dynamic Lists
• 9.1.5 Personalizing Input Help
• 9.1.6 Buttons and Key Combinations
• 9.1.7 Table Controls
• 9.2 The IT Department’s Nonprogramming Options
• 9.2.1 Transaction Variants
• 9.2.2 Customizing
• 9.2.3 Action Box
• 9.2.4 SAP Service and Asset Manager
• 9.2.5 SAP Fiori
• 9.2.6 GuiXT
• 9.2.7 SAP Screen Personas
• 9.3 The IT Department’s Programming Options
• 9.3.1 Upstream Transactions
• 9.3.2 Business Application Programming Interfaces
• 9.3.3 Web Interface
• 9.3.4 Customer Exits
• 9.3.5 Business Add-Ins and Enhancement Points
• 9.3.6 SAP Business Workflow
• 9.4 Summary

• A Project Plans and Overviews
• A.1 Functional Scope of SAP S/4HANA Asset Management and Assignment of Priorities
• A.2 Authorization Objects in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
• A.3 BAPIs for SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
• A.4 Customer Exits for SAP S/4HANA Asset Management

• B The Author

• Index

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