Equipment

The Equipment master data synchronization is bi-directional i.e., from SAP EAM to asset central foundation and vice versa. Synchronization of equipment header (for example, Equipment Number, Descripton, Manufacturer, Technical Identification Number, Unique Identifier, and so on), characteristic value, hierarchies and business partners are currently supported. Equipment replicated to asset central foundation is always created as lean equipment (Equipment without assignment to Model).

If equipment in asset central foundation is changed, and this does not have any link/ reference to any equipment in SAP ERP, then a new equipment gets created in SAP ERP and the external ID of the asset central foundation equipment gets updated.

The important configuration objects of Equipment synchronization object are as follows:

Exchange Object	SACI_EQUIPMENT SACI_EQ_CHARVALUE
Mobile Data Object ID	SACI_EQUIPMENT_SYNC SACI_CHARACTVALUE_SYNC
Data Filter for MDO	SACI_EQUIPMENT_SYNC Synchronization Filter fields: Company Code, Controlling Area, Cost Center, Distribution Channel, Division, Equipment Category, Equipment Number, Equipment Type, Maintenance Plant, Material, Manufacturer, Planner Group, Planning Plant, Sales Organization, System Status, User Status and Work Center. Field Property Mapping: Standard property mappings configurations are pre-delivered for equipment. This can be edited based on specific needs. The standard EAM BAPIs are used to read and update data and the mapping is provided against the BAPI structure fields. BAPI_ITOB_PARMS, BAPI_ITOB and BAPI_ITOB_EQ_ONLY for Equipment BAPI_ITOB_PARMS, BAPI_ITOB and BAPI_ITOB_FL_ONLY for Functional Locations Value Mapping Configuration: The EAM specific values can be mapped against the asset central foundation values for properties like: Status: Mapped against asset central Equipment Lifecycle. Possible asset central values are 1 - Planned 2 - Fully Operational 3 - Sold 4 - Fully Operational / Standby 5 - Fully Operational / Redundant 6 - Partially Operational 7 - Partially Operational / Standby 8 - Partially Operational / Redundant 9 - Not Operational 10 - Disposed 11 - Retired Note Status mapping is considered only during outbound replication scenario (SAP EAM to asset central foundation). During inbound replication from asset central foundation to SAP EAM, equipment is always created in default/primary status. Equipment Category: Mapped against Source Business Partner Role. Possible asset central values are 1 - For my operations. 2 - For Service. 3 - For Customer. ABC Indicators: Mapped against the Risk and Criticality of asset central Equipment. Equipment Configuration: System administrator must configure the required Equipment configuration for the below properties: PUBLISH: Setting the value of this property to 'X" allows you to automatically publish the equipment in asset central foundation. Make sure the value for this property is empty, if automatic publishing is not required. ALLOW_SHARED_DATA: This property controls the behavior of incoming shared equipment data into the SAP ERP system. Possible values are: A - Automatic. R - Review. N - Not allowed. Note If this property is not configured, incoming shared equipment data will not be considered for processing.

Note

Standard pre-delivered configurations will have mappings only for Equipment synchronization. For Functional Location to Equipment Mapping scenario the configurations must be maintained by the system administrator.
As part of subsequent dependencies, when a document is assigned to an equipment using the equipment master transaction, the document also gets replicated along with equipment to asset central foundation.
Initial load and Look-up and Link are supported for Equipment synchronization object.
Switch EAM_SFWS_SC1 is required for the hierarchy synchronization and the switch is assigned to the business functions LOG_EAM_CI_1, LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY and LOG_EAM_TOHO. Make sure that at least one business function is activated for the hierarchy sync process, preferably LOG_EAM_CI_1 when all business functions are inactive.