SAP Plant Maintenance history If you are just learn SAP Plant Maintenance or beginner in SAP ERP, I

bet you are going to be confused with so many terms of SAP Plant Maintenance module. Bellows are
the history of SAP Plant maintenance from SAP R/3 to the latest name, so don't be confuse. 1. SAP
R/3 - Plant Maintenance (PM) module: Maintenance of internal assets - Customer Service (CS)
module: Maintenance of customers' assets 2. SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) SAP solution
that takes into account the lifecycle of a product with the accompanying data, and thus
encompasses development, operational phase, together with shutdown and disposal. 3. Asset Life-
Cycle Management (ALM) Function area of SAP PLM, encompassing Plant Maintenance and
Customer Service. (Now obsolete and replaced by Enterprise Asset Management). 4. SAP Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP): SAP solution for controlling and planning the core areas of a company
(accounting, human resources, logistics, corporate services such as real estate management, travel
management, and strategic enterprise planning). 5. Enterprise Asset Management Function area of
SAP ERP, for maintaining technical assets. 6. Enterprise Asset Management (in the wider sense)
Totality of all the lifecycle phases of an asset (investment planning, project management, vendor
selection, project execution, maintenance, external procurement, shutdown, performance
management). Mapping the entire lifecycle of a technical asset can be achieved by combining the
respective function areas of SAP ERP. Regards, Yayan Irianto.