User Status Profiles: The Key to Effective Maintenance Order Management

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM), MAN Production Planning (PP), SAP ERP

Introduction: To guarantee seamless operations in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), effective work order management is essential. SAP PM provides the idea of a User Status Profile to speed up the process and enforce control over order release. We will delve into the definition of User Status Profile, its importance in limiting order release, and how […]

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Linear Asset Management (LAM) in SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

In this blog, I will explain how Enterprise Asset Management (henceforth it’s called as “EAM”) is used to maintain Linear Assets like pipelines, railway lines, electric lines, gas line & many others. Details on required customizations, master data & others for maintaining linear assets are explained with example. What is Linear Asset? Linear assets are […]

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Production Resource Tool Integration with PM & PP

MAN Production Planning (PP), PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

Introduction: Production Resource Tools (PRT): You can create PRT with the following types: In a manufacturing industry, we keep using various tools during productions and these tools require maintenance to keep them usable. Maintenance of such tools normally depends on their usage in the production operation. These tools can be considered as Production Resource Tools […]

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Event Prioritization in SAP S/4HANA Maintenance Management

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

Defining the correct priority while reporting a functional failure of an asset is extremely important in terms of improving the turn around time to fix the problem, reducing the impact on environment, personnel safety and financial impact which then leads to reduced down time that may affect the overall production process. A well defined priority […]

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SAP Fleet Management Configuration along with Fuel Consumption (IFCU) in Plant Maintenance.

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

Fleet management is extremely popular within the industry where many vehicles are used, it’s used to keep track of vehicle usage, fuel consumption, etc. In this blog, you will learn the essential steps to monitor consumption in fleet management using the PM (Plant Maintenance) module. I am trying to explain the steps used to set […]

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Fleet Management – Detail SAP Configuration Steps along with Rationale

SAP S/4HANA, PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

Fleet management is very popular in Industry’s where lot of vehicles are used, it is used to track the vehicle usage, fuel consumption etc. I am trying to explain the detail steps used in Fleet management configuration along with some rationale, I hope the reader can follow these detail steps to understand and configure SAP […]

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PM/CS: Configurable Task List – Seasonal Operations

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction Objective: to create a Configurable General Task List that can manage seasonal operations. The basic process is shown below: In this scenario we will create a configurable general task list with selectable operations based on the month of the year that the order was planned. In the image below we can see the […]

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PM/CS: Configurable Task List without using the Equipment Configuration Tab

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction In a traditional configurable general task list process you need to create many objects in SAP such as material configuration profile, task list configuration profile, equipment configuration etc. This process can be simplified, but it does require some ABAP programming which can allow for more complicated selection scenarios. The basic process is shown […]

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PM/CS: Creating a Configurable General Task List

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction Objective: to create a Configurable General Task List and Configured Equipment that will work in planned and corrective maintenance orders. The basic process is shown below: In this example we will create a task list with selectable operations based on whether the casing of a pump is cast iron, aluminium, or steel. 2. […]

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New Phase Model for the Maintenance Processes in S/4HANA Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction In S/4HANA Cloud Release 2011, SAP introduced the new concepts of ‘Process Phases’ to track the life cycle of the maintenance processes as an alternative to System and User statuses used previously. The ‘process phases’ have 2 levels of hierarchy viz. ‘Phase’ and ‘Sub-phase’ and are set up by SAP. You cannot change […]

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