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• Keeping physical assets in a workable and safe state
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• Reduce the operating costs caused by equipment downtime and damage

In SAP, there are 5 types of maintenance processes: 

1. Corrective maintenance: triggered by the detection of a defect

2. Preventive maintenance: work planned in advance
3. Breakdown maintenance: work that has to be executed in emergency
4. Calibration maintenance: ensures that precision instruments keep accurate
measurements
5. Refurbishment maintenance: repair work done on materials subject to split
valuation

This document will focus on the corrective maintenance process.

The maintenance order process follows five big steps.

The maintenance order process also has 3 types of roles involved: maintenance
planner, maintenance supervisor, and maintenance technician.

We will now take a closer look at the five steps of the process:

1. MAINTENANCE NOTIFICATION

This document can be created by any of the 3 maintenance roles. The maintenance
notification is triggered by the identification of a defect on a specific technical object.
There are 3 types of standard maintenance notification: maintenance request,
 There are 3 types of standard maintenance notification: maintenance request,
malfunction report and activity report. 

The commonly used notification type is the maintenance request:

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The creator of the maintenance notification can enter the technical object, the
description of the issue and the main work center responsible for the work. After
creation, the maintenance notification will be verified by the maintenance planner and
the work will be dispatched among the maintenance technicians.

It is also possible to directly create the maintenance order from the maintenance
notification header thanks to the creation symbol next to the field “order”:

2. MAINTENANCE ORDER

The maintenance order can be created in 2 ways: 

• From the maintenance notification: 

The maintenance notification will have the system status ORAS – which means “Order
Assigned”.
 • Directly through the transaction IW31

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The maintenance order gets created with a certain order type, priority, technical
object and a planning plant. 

The typical structure of the order is as follows:

 I provide you below with a high-level overview of what is the role of each tab in the
maintenance order management process. 

The maintenance order header data answers at a high level to the following questions:

• Who: by displaying the “person responsible” sub-tab

• When: by displaying the “dates” sub-tab
• What: by displaying the “reference object” sub-tab
• How: by displaying the “first operation” sub-tab (details are provided in the
“operations” tab)
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The operations tab provide details about which operations are done, by whom , in
which sequence and for which duration. 

The components tab is used whenever some materials are required for a specific
operation

The costs tab is used to display the planned and actual costs

The partner tab is used to display the partners involved in the maintenance order. 

The “objects” tab is useful whenever several objects are involved in the maintenance
work. It also specifies, when applicable, which maintenance notification is linked to
the order. 
 The “additional data” tab displays static finance-related organizational data. It has no
impact on the process as such. 

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The “location” tab displays the “location” of the data from both a logistics and
financial viewpoint: it displays the maintenance plant as well as the account
assignment data for the order costs.

The planning data tab is not relevant for the corrective maintenance process. It is
used in the preventive maintenance process. It displays the maintenance plan and the
task list from which the preventive maintenance order is generated. 
 The “control” data contains the administrative data as well as the CO-parameters
related to the order.

In case components are required for the order, the “reservation/purchase requisitions”
sub-tab
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3. ORDER CONFIRMATION

The confirmation on the maintenance order is done through the transaction IW41. 

The confirmation is done at the operation level.

The confirmation document contains: the actual time spent on the tasks and, when
applicable, the materials goods movements and measurement documents for technical
objects. The “actual work” field has to be filled in to complete the confirmation. There
is a flag for “final confirmation”. When it is flagged on, it means that there is no work
remaining on the operation. When all the operations of an order are “final” confirmed,
the order has the system status CNF.
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After the confirmation is done, it is possible to display the variances between the
planned and actual durations.

Several confirmations can also be done simultaneously through the transaction code
IW42

4. TECHNICAL COMPLETION

When all the maintenance order operations are finally confirmed, the order can be
technically completed. The technical completion of a maintenance is a handover of the
work from the maintenance department to finance.

The technical completion is a standard system status only valid at the order header
level. This status can also be cancelled in any maintenance order.

5. ORDER SETTLEMENT

Settling a maintenance order means that all the actual costs incurred during order
confirmation are sent to a “settlement receiver”. This settlement receiver is generally
 the cost center of the reference object (displayed in the header data). It can also be a
specifically designated general ledger account. The settlement is done through the
transaction KO88. The user needs to enter the order number, as well as fiscal year,
posting and settlement periods. After that, the user decides whether or not he runs
the settlement in test mode (with the test flag). The button “Execute” will run the
settlement.
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6. KEY TRANSACTION CODES

Most of the transactions used during the maintenance order management process are
located within the following folders in the menu path:
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