Plant Maintenance

Configure Organization Structure for SAP PM-EAM

Contents
Maintenance Planning Plant .......................................................................................................................... 1
Assign Maintenance planning plant to a Maintenance plant ........................................................... 3
Create Location for a Plant .............................................................................................................. 4
Create Plant Section ........................................................................................................................ 5
Create Planner group ...................................................................................................................... 6

We will see how we configure the organization structure used for Enterprise asset
management/Plant maintenance. Following figure shows the detailed organization structure of
SAP PM.
** Note
Client, controlling area, company code and maintenance plant will be made available by Basis,
FICO and MM consultant. As a SAP EAM/PM consultant, you will start your configuration activity
starting from defining Maintenance planning plant.

I. Maintenance Planning Plant

Definition Plant which is responsible for carrying out all maintenance activities in a particular
maintenance plant.
 One maintenance plant can be linked with only one planning plant.
 One planning plant can be linked with multiple maintenance plant.
Scenario In a manufacturing company ABC, assume that you have a manufacturing plant
located in any geographical location. As par SAP structure, you have to define a
planning plant to carry out maintenance activities.

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SPRO Menu Path Display IMG -> ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE -> DEFINATION -> PLANT
MAINTENANCE -> MAINTAIN MAINTENANCE PLANNING PLANT
Pre-requisites Maintenance plant should exist already with the same name.

Once you click on execute icon, screen for maintaining new plant will appear. There you
have to click on New Entries button. Following screen will appear.

Here you can maintain you plant as a maintenance planning plant. Note : Plant code you
enter in above screen should be created as a plant first. Then only system will allow you to
maintain that plant as a maintenance planning plant.

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II. Assign Maintenance planning plant to a Maintenance plant.

Definition Maintenance planning plant is assigned to a maintenance plat for

which it is responsible to carry out all Maintenance activities.
 One maintenance plant can be assigned to only one planning
plant
 One planning plant can be assigned to multiple maintenance
plants.
Scenario Assign planning plant to maintenance plant
SPRO Menu Path Display IMG > ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE > Assignment > PLANT
MAINTENANCE > Assign maintenance planning plant to
maintenance plant
Pre-requisites Planning plant entry should exist as a maintenance plant

Now click on execute button.

Here you enter the assignment of plant and Save the entries.

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III. Create Location for a Plant

Definition A location allows a plant to be classified according to spatial or situation

criteria. It means you can assume hierarchical division of a plant using
locations.
Scenario You want to create a location within a plant
SPRO Menu Path Display IMG > ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE > DEFINATION > Logistics -
General > Define Location
Prerequisites Plant should exist for which you want to create a location.

Click on execute button and click on New entries. Following screen will appear.

Save your entries. Locations are created now. If you use Asset Management in your system,
you can assign each fixed asset to one of these locations. The following master data objects
can be assigned to these locations:

 Asset master records of Asset Management

 Pieces of equipment
 Functional locations
 Work centers
 Production resources/tools

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IV. Create Plant Section

Definition The plant section enables you to subdivide the maintenance plant from the
point of view of production responsibility. The person responsible for the
plant section is the contact for coordination between production and plant
maintenance. The plant section can be used for evaluation purposes.
Scenario Create a plant section for a plant
SPRO Menu Path Display IMG > Plant Maintenance and Customer Service > Technical
Objects > General Data > Define Plant Sections
Prerequisites Plant should exist.

Click on execute button and New Entries in next screen. Following screen should appear.

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Save your entries.

V. Create Planner group

Definition Depending on the size and structure of your company, a maintenance

planning group may be an individual department (for central work
preparation), a group of skilled craftsmen or a workshop. Every piece
of equipment and functional location can be allocated to a maintenance
planning group.
Scenario Define your maintenance planner groups
SPRO Menu Path Display IMG > Plant Maintenance and Customer Service > Technical
Objects > General Data > Define Planner Groups
Prerequisites Planning plant should exist.

Click on execute button and New Entries in next screen. Following screen should appear.

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Save your entries.

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