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Technical Objects & Master Data
Candidate must have a good understanding
on how to structure and categorize assets accurately.
- Functional Locations & Equipment: Defining maintenance plants and hierarchical asset structures.
- Bills of Material (BOMs): Assigning spare parts and assemblies to technical objects.
- Work Centers:
Creating and mapping maintenance crews, workshops, and labor capacities.
Maintenance Processing & Work Orders
Skills for routing, tracking, and
executing maintenance tasks:
- Notifications: Processing breakdowns and logging requests (M1/M2).
- Work Orders:
Generating, planning, estimating costs, and tracking execution
(IW31/IW32).
- Preventive Maintenance: Setting up scheduling parameters, maintenance strategies, and
task lists.
- Completion Confirmations: Recording actual labor h ours and materials used.
Cost Allocation & Settlement (The
"Settle" Phase)
The critical financial endpoint of the
PM process, ensuring maintenance costs are properly absorbed:
- Settlement Profiles: Configuring the rules that determine which receivers are valid
(e.g., Cost Centers, Internal Orders, WBS elements).
- Settlement Rules: Generating and maintaining the distribution percentages for cost
allocation.
- Period-End Closing: Executing the settlement run (KO88) to clear maintenance order
balances and transfer costs to Finance (FI).
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Cross-Module Integration
Plant Maintenance never happens in
isolation. need to have good understanding of integration points with other
SAP modules:
- Materials Management (MM): Issuing spare parts, managing reservations, and creating
purchase requisitions for external services.
- Financial Accounting / Controlling (FI/CO): Understanding primary and secondary cost elements, cost centers,
and internal orders for budgeting.
- Project System (PS): Settling complex turnaround or overhaul maintenance costs
against WBS elements.
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