Maintenance Object - SAP Documentation

Purpose

You use a maintenance object in SAP SCM to represent functional locations and equipment from SAP R/3. In Maintenance and Service Planning (MSP), you can define:

Maintenance object with maintenance cycles, which are similar to SAP R/3 maintenance plans

If you want to plan a maintenance object in SAP SCM, the maintenance object requires a functional location or equipment with either a corresponding multiple counter plan or a simple single cycle plan (time-based or performance-based maintenance cycles) in SAP R/3. Therefore, you also select the corresponding maintenance plans from the external system.

For more information about these planning types, see the SAP Library for SAP R/3 under Plant Maintenance (PM) → Preventive Maintenance (PM-PRM) → Maintenance Plan → Single Cycle Plan and Strategy Plan or Multiple Counter Plan .

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MSP does not support strategy plans based on time-based or performance-based maintenance strategies.

SAP SCM uses the current counter values and the average performance recorded in SAP R/3 for the maintenance object. If required, you can enter average performance data in SAP SCM and use that instead.

Maintenance object without maintenance cycles

You cannot use this type of maintenance object in planning in SAP SCM.

SAP SCM uses the current counter values and the average performance recorded in SAP R/3 for the maintenance object. If required, you can enter average performance data in SAP SCM and use that instead.

Maintenance object without external reference

You use this type of maintenance object only in simulative planning. This maintenance object type has no link to SAP R/3, therefore you have to also assign a performance profile and select the counter types to be used for the average performance. You cannot transfer this type of maintenance object to SAP R/3.

Prerequisites

In the external system (Not valid for maintenance objects without external reference):

Characteristics, functional locations, and equipment have been defined.

At least one maintenance plan exists for the functional location or equipment. That maintenance plan is currently in use, which means it is active, has been scheduled, and at least one schedule call lies in the past.

In SAP SCM:

Characteristics exist that match those in SAP R/3. (Not valid for maintenance objects without external reference.)

Counter types and a performance profile have been defined.

A maintenance profile exists that matches the SAP R/3 maintenance plan. (Not valid for maintenance objects without external reference.)

A maintenance object group exists for the new maintenance object.

One or more supply chain models exist.

For more information, see Preparatory Activities for MSP .

Process Flow

Definition of a Maintenance Object with or Without Maintenance Cycles

In SAP SCM, you create a maintenance object.

The system assigns planning version 000 automatically to the maintenance object. You can change the planning version.

You enter the name of the equivalent SAP R/3 functional location or SAP R/3 equipment, the object type, the maintenance object group, and the source system from which the original object should be copied.

If you have created a maintenance object with maintenance cycles:

You create a cycle series for the maintenance object.

You can create an external cycle series with reference to the maintenance plan(s) in SAP R/3, or a local cycle series. If you create an external cycle series, the system uses the data from the original SAP R/3 maintenance plan. If you create a local cycle series, the system uses the SAP SCM planning data.

For an external cycle series, you enter a maintenance profile and a synchronization point .

For a local cycle series, you enter a maintenance profile with check intervals and a valid-from date.

You create a successor cycle, if required.

You assign a performance profile and select the counter types.

The system uses a reference performance profile until the user changes the counter consumption, at which time it becomes a local performance profile. A reference profile is valid for all maintenance objects; a local profile is valid only for the object for which you have changed the consumption. You can revert to the reference values and vice versa.

You assign the maintenance object to a supply chain model.

The model is the basis for all SAP SCM planning functions. For more information, see Supply Chain Model, Planning Version, and Supply Chain Engineer .

Definition of a Maintenance Object Without External Reference

In SAP SCM, you create a maintenance object.

The system assigns planning version 000 to the maintenance object. You can change the planning version.

You delete the maintenance object name that the system has entered for the external system, select whether the object is a functional location or an equipment, and enter the name of the maintenance object group to which the maintenance object should belong in SAP SCM.

If you have created a maintenance object with maintenance cycles, you create a local cycle series and enter a maintenance profile with check intervals and a valid-from date.

You assign a performance profile and select the counter types.

You assign the maintenance object to a supply chain model.