SAP-Centric Projects

The SAP Plant Maintenance module (PM) is designed to handle the management and execution of integrated maintenance processes. Such processes include preventative, routine and turnaround maintenance, all fully integrated with purchasing, MRP, controlling and financial accounting performed in SAP. The main objects used in PM are work orders, a series of which (often grouped by revisions) are what typically is thought of as a "project". Such maintenance projects are planned by describing the estimated work effort per "operation" (activity) and work center performing that work effort. By linking operations inside work orders or across them a generic project schedule is created.

Unfortunately SAP-PM has only limited scheduling capabilities. Therefore effective enterprise project scheduling for maintenance purposes requires either the use of the SAP PS module, the integration with external scheduling tools like Primavera or MS Project, or for less complex projects the use of external tools like GWOS (for more information about these tools please search this web site).  

The basic master records used by Plant Maintenance are: 

- Maintenance Notifications;

- Maintenance Orders; 

- Functional Locations;

- Equipments;

- Materials; and

- Work Centers (Resources).  

Functional Locations and Equipments contain fields that allow grouping by units, locations, or plant locations.