Name: Plant Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide
Brand: SAP
SKU: BOOK-SAPPRESS-EBOOK-2021-9781493220212

Plant Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

Language

🇺🇸 English

Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2021 / 1

Pages 665

Authors Karl Liebstückel

Plant Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

Your company is now on SAP S/4HANA—so how do you run your plant maintenance operations on this new system? Between these pages, you’ll find the detailed, step-by-step instructions you need for your routine (and non-routine) functions. Ample screenshots walk you through scheduling repairs, planning maintenance cycles, completing inspections, and all the tasks you perform to keep your assets in shape. With information on new UIs and mobile apps, this guide is the only one you need!

Run preventive maintenance, repairs, refurbishment, and more in SAP S/4HANA
Manage routine plant operations with step-by-step instructions
Improve your usability and workflows with SAP Fiori, SAP Work Manager, SAP Asset Manager, and SAP Intelligent Asset Management

You'll learn about:

Functional Tasks:
Shift notes and reports, preventive maintenance and planned repairs, subcontracting or refurbishment—whatever your daily, weekly, or monthly PM task list looks like, get the click-by-click instructions you need.
Best Practices:
With tips and tricks gathered from real-world experience, this book shows you how to get the most out of plant maintenance in SAP S/4HANA. Best practices will help you avoid common pitfalls and get some easy wins!
User Interfaces and Apps:
SAP is always evolving, so you’ll find details about new user interface technologies, like SAP Fiori. You’ll also get a rundown of mobile apps and other programs like SAP Work Manager, SAP Asset Manager, SAP Intelligent Asset Management, and integration with RFID devices.

Key Highlights:

Asset management
Organizational structures
Work orders
Notifications
Preventive maintenance
Repairs
Inter-department integration
Plant maintenance controlling
User interfaces
Mobile apps

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Foreword
About This Book
- Target Audience
- What This Book Can and Cannot Do
- Structure of This Book
- What's New to This Book?
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Plant Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA
- 1.1 Plant Maintenance Today: New Ideas Need New Space
- 1.2 New Plant Maintenance Terminology
- 1.3 Maintenance Strategies over Time
- 1.4 Plant Maintenance over Time in SAP
- 1.5 SAP S/4HANA Application System
  - 1.5.1 SAP S/4HANA Overview
  - 1.5.2 Enhancement Packages
- 1.6 SAP HANA Database
- 1.7 User Interfaces
  - 1.7.1 SAP GUI
  - 1.7.2 SAP Business Client
  - 1.7.3 SAP Fiori
- 1.8 Summary
2 Organizational Structures
- 2.1 SAP Organizational Units
  - 2.1.1 The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective
  - 2.1.2 Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units
  - 2.1.3 Other General Organizational Units
  - 2.1.4 Plant-Specific and Cross-Plant Maintenance
- 2.2 Work Centers
- 2.3 Summary
3 Structuring of Technical Systems
- 3.1 Actions before Mapping Your Technical Systems in the SAP System
  - 3.1.1 Question 1: Which Structuring Resources Should Be Used?
  - 3.1.2 Question 2: How Deep Should the Structure Be?
  - 3.1.3 Question 3: Which Criteria Should Be Applied to the Structuring of Technical Systems?
  - 3.1.4 Question 4: On Which Structure Level Should a Particular Resource Be Used?
  - 3.1.5 Question 5: How Are Numbers Assigned?
  - 3.1.6 Question 6: Which Information Should You Store?
  - 3.1.7 Question 7: How Is the Master Data Incorporated into the SAP System?
  - 3.1.8 Question 8: Is It Easy to Delete Data Records?
  - 3.1.9 Question 9: Which of the Available Functions Should Be Used?
  - 3.1.10 Question 10: Which Strategy Should You Pursue When Recording Master Data?
- 3.2 Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations
  - 3.2.1 Creating Functional Locations: Single Entry
  - 3.2.2 Creating Functional Locations: Collective Entry
  - 3.2.3 Reference Functional Locations
  - 3.2.4 Alternative Labeling
- 3.3 Equipment and Serial Numbers
  - 3.3.1 Installing Equipment on Functional Locations/Dismantling Equipment from Functional Locations
  - 3.3.2 Placing Equipment in Storage/Removing Equipment from Storage
  - 3.3.3 Equipment Hierarchies
  - 3.3.4 Functional Comparison between Pieces of Equipment and Functional Locations
- 3.4 Links and Object Networks
- 3.5 Linear Asset Management
- 3.6 Material and PM Assemblies
- 3.7 Bills of Materials
- 3.8 Classification
- 3.9 Product Structure Browser
- 3.10 Asset Viewer
- 3.11 Generic Functions
  - 3.11.1 Data Transfers
  - 3.11.2 Mass Change of Pieces of Equipment and Functional Locations
  - 3.11.3 Measuring Points and Counters
  - 3.11.4 Documents
  - 3.11.5 Address Management
  - 3.11.6 Warranties
  - 3.11.7 Partners
  - 3.11.8 Permits
  - 3.11.9 System Status and User Status
- 3.12 Summary
4 Work Order Cycle
- 4.1 Actions to be Taken before Mapping the Work Order Cycle in SAP S/4HANA
  - 4.1.1 Question 1: Which Functions Should You Use?
  - 4.1.2 Question 2: Should You Use a Notification and/or an Order?
  - 4.1.3 Question 3: Which Information Should You Store?
  - 4.1.4 Question 4: How Can You Ensure That Users Accept the System?
  - 4.1.5 Question 5: What Role Does Business Process Modeling Play?
  - 4.1.6 Question 6: When Should You Include the Other User Departments?
- 4.2 Notification
  - 4.2.1 Creating a Notification
  - 4.2.2 Notification Types
  - 4.2.3 Notification Content
  - 4.2.4 Flexible Reference Objects
  - 4.2.5 Object Information
  - 4.2.6 Notification Items
  - 4.2.7 Catalogs and Catalog Profiles
  - 4.2.8 Classification
  - 4.2.9 Partners
  - 4.2.10 Addresses
  - 4.2.11 Documents
  - 4.2.12 Printing
  - 4.2.13 System and User Statuses
- 4.3 Planning
  - 4.3.1 Creating an Order
  - 4.3.2 Order Types
  - 4.3.3 Content of Orders
  - 4.3.4 Order Operations
  - 4.3.5 Responsibilities
  - 4.3.6 Scheduling
  - 4.3.7 Material Planning
  - 4.3.8 Electronic Parts Catalogs
  - 4.3.9 Production Resources/Tools
  - 4.3.10 Documents
  - 4.3.11 Object List
  - 4.3.12 Costing and Estimated Costs
  - 4.3.13 Order Hierarchy
  - 4.3.14 Object Services
  - 4.3.15 Do Not Execute Orders
  - 4.3.16 To Be Printed Before Order Is Released
- 4.4 Controlling
  - 4.4.1 Mass Change of Orders and Operations
  - 4.4.2 Capacity Requirements Planning
  - 4.4.3 Availability Checks in General
  - 4.4.4 PRT Availability Check
  - 4.4.5 Material Availability Check
  - 4.4.6 Order Release
  - 4.4.7 Shop Paper Printing
  - 4.4.8 Paging
- 4.5 Processing
- 4.6 Completion
  - 4.6.1 Completion Confirmations
  - 4.6.2 Technical Completion Confirmations
  - 4.6.3 Technical Completion
  - 4.6.4 Order Printing after Technical Completion
  - 4.6.5 Business Completion
  - 4.6.6 Document Flow
  - 4.6.7 Action Log
- 4.7 Summary
5 Preventive Maintenance
- 5.1 Basic Principles of Preventive Maintenance
- 5.2 Preventive Maintenance Objects
- 5.3 Maintenance Task Lists
  - 5.3.1 Basics of Maintenance Task Lists
  - 5.3.2 Order and Task List
  - 5.3.3 Action Log
  - 5.3.4 Task List Costing
  - 5.3.5 Mass Changes
- 5.4 Time-Based Maintenance Plans
  - 5.4.1 Time-Based Single-Cycle Plan
  - 5.4.2 Time-Based Strategy Plan
- 5.5 Performance-Based Maintenance Plans
  - 5.5.1 Performance-Based Single-Cycle Plan
  - 5.5.2 Performance-Based Strategy Plan
- 5.6 Multiple-Counter Plans
  - 5.6.1 Basic Multiple-Counter Plan
  - 5.6.2 Enhanced Multiple-Counter Plan
- 5.7 Inspection Rounds
  - 5.7.1 Basic Inspection Rounds Using the Object List
  - 5.7.2 Enhanced Inspection Rounds Using the Maintenance Task List
- 5.8 Condition-Based Maintenance
- 5.9 Summary
6 Other Business Processes
- 6.1 Immediate Repairs
  - 6.1.1 Creating Orders (with Notification) and Completion
  - 6.1.2 Special Case: After-Event Recording
- 6.2 Shift Notes and Shift Reports
  - 6.2.1 Shift Notes
  - 6.2.2 Shift Reports
- 6.3 External Assignment
  - 6.3.1 Basic Principles of External Assignment
  - 6.3.2 External Processing as a Single Purchase Order
  - 6.3.3 External Services with External Work Centers
  - 6.3.4 External Processing with Service Specifications
- 6.4 Refurbishment
  - 6.4.1 Prerequisites
  - 6.4.2 Refurbishment Notification
  - 6.4.3 Material Requirements Planning
  - 6.4.4 Refurbishment Order
  - 6.4.5 Goods Issue
  - 6.4.6 Goods Receipt
  - 6.4.7 Costing
- 6.5 Subcontracting
  - 6.5.1 Subcontracting Order
  - 6.5.2 Purchase Requisition
  - 6.5.3 Subcontracting Monitor
  - 6.5.4 Serial Numbers
- 6.6 Test Equipment Calibration
  - 6.6.1 Equipment
  - 6.6.2 Inspection Characteristics
  - 6.6.3 Task List
  - 6.6.4 Maintenance Plan
  - 6.6.5 Order and Inspection Lot
  - 6.6.6 Results Recording
  - 6.6.7 Usage Decision
  - 6.6.8 Follow-Up Actions
- 6.7 Follow-On Order
  - 6.7.1 Direct Creating
  - 6.7.2 Indirect Creating
- 6.8 Pool Asset Management
  - 6.8.1 Request
  - 6.8.2 Scheduling via Planning Board
  - 6.8.3 Confirmation
  - 6.8.4 Issue
  - 6.8.5 Return
  - 6.8.6 Settlement
  - 6.8.7 Prerequisites
- 6.9 Project-Based Maintenance
  - 6.9.1 Project System
  - 6.9.2 Maintenance Event Builder
- 6.10 Summary
7 Integrating Applications from Other Departments
- 7.1 Integration within SAP S/4HANA
  - 7.1.1 Materials Management
  - 7.1.2 Production Planning and Control
  - 7.1.3 Digression: In-House Production of Spare Parts for Stock
  - 7.1.4 Quality Management
  - 7.1.5 Environment, Health, and Safety
  - 7.1.6 Financial Accounting
  - 7.1.7 Asset Accounting
  - 7.1.8 Controlling
  - 7.1.9 Real Estate Management
  - 7.1.10 Human Capital Management
  - 7.1.11 Service and Sales
- 7.2 Integration with Other SAP Systems
  - 7.2.1 SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management
  - 7.2.2 SAP Master Data Governance
  - 7.2.3 SAP Supplier Relationship Management
- 7.3 Integration with Non-SAP Systems
  - 7.3.1 Operations Monitoring Systems
  - 7.3.2 Operations Information Systems
  - 7.3.3 Service Specifications and Entry of Services Performed
- 7.4 Summary
8 Plant Maintenance Controlling
- 8.1 What Plant Maintenance Controlling Involves
- 8.2 SAP Tools for Obtaining Information
  - 8.2.1 SAP List Viewer
  - 8.2.2 QuickViewer
  - 8.2.3 Logistics Information System
  - 8.2.4 SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BW/4HANA
  - 8.2.5 SAP Lumira, Discovery Edition
- 8.3 SAP Tools for Budgeting
  - 8.3.1 Order Budgeting
  - 8.3.2 Cost Center Budgeting
  - 8.3.3 Budgeting by Using Investment Management Programs
  - 8.3.4 Budgeting Using WBS Elements
  - 8.3.5 Maintenance Cost Budgeting
- 8.4 Summary
9 New Information Technologies for Plant Maintenance
- 9.1 New Technologies in the User Interface
  - 9.1.1 SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer
  - 9.1.2 SAP Fiori
  - 9.1.3 Quick Views
- 9.2 Mobile Maintenance
  - 9.2.1 Fundamentals of Mobile Maintenance
  - 9.2.2 SAP Work Manager
  - 9.2.3 SAP Asset Manager
  - 9.2.4 RFID
- 9.3 SAP Intelligent Asset Management
  - 9.3.1 Asset Central Foundation
  - 9.3.2 SAP Asset Intelligence Network
  - 9.3.3 SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management
  - 9.3.4 SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service
  - 9.3.5 SAP Predictive Engineering Insights
- 9.4 Summary
10 Usability
- 10.1 Basics
  - 10.1.1 What Is Meant by Usability?
  - 10.1.2 Assessing Usability
  - 10.1.3 Why Usability Does Not Mean User Acceptance
  - 10.1.4 Why Is It that User Acceptance Is so important in Plant Maintenance?
  - 10.1.5 SAP System Options to Improve Usability
- 10.2 User's Options to Improve Usability
  - 10.2.1 General User Parameters
  - 10.2.2 Maintenance-Specific User Parameters
  - 10.2.3 Roles and Favorites
  - 10.2.4 List Variants
  - 10.2.5 Customizing Input Help
  - 10.2.6 Buttons and Key Combinations
  - 10.2.7 Table Controls
- 10.3 Non-Programmer's Options in IT
  - 10.3.1 Transaction Variants
  - 10.3.2 Customizing
  - 10.3.3 Action Box
  - 10.3.4 SAP Business Client
  - 10.3.5 Mobile Solutions
  - 10.3.6 SAP Fiori
  - 10.3.7 GuiXT
  - 10.3.8 SAP Screen Personas
- 10.4 Programmer's Options in IT
  - 10.4.1 Upstream Transactions
  - 10.4.2 BAPI
  - 10.4.3 Web Interface
  - 10.4.4 Customer Exits
  - 10.4.5 Other Programming Techniques
- 10.5 Usability Studies
  - 10.5.1 Preparation and Execution
  - 10.5.2 Results
  - 10.5.3 Laboratory Test with SAP Screen Personas
- 10.6 Summary
A List of Further Sources and Literature
B Overviews
- B.1 Functional Comparison of Structuring Resources
- B.2 Functions of Notifications and Orders
- B.3 Integration Aspects
- B.4 Standard Plant Maintenance Information System Reports
3 The Author
Index

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