Enterprise Asset Management 

Purpose

This business scenario helps companies manage physical assets – such as production plants, capital assets, vehicle fleets, and facilities complexes – over the complete asset life cycle. In conjunction with powerful reporting and analysis tools, the SAP solution's Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) capabilities enable you to reduce operating costs, better manage capital expenditure, and improve asset utilization.

Prerequisites

Business Partners	SAP Application Components	Configuration
	SAP SEM 3.0B SAP ECC 5.0 SAP NetWeaver 04 SAP SRM 4.0	Use SAP Solution Manager.

 

Process

The business processes run as follows:

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       1.      Investment Planning

       2.      Document Management

       3.      Project Planning with PS

       4.      Project Execution with PS

       5.      Negotiating Contracts

       6.      Processing Purchase Requisitions in ERP

       7.      Processing Purchase Orders in ERP

       8.      Processing Sales Orders

       9.      Entering Services in ERP

   10.      Inbound Processing and Receipt Confirmation without Warehouse Management

   11.      Verifying Logistics Invoices (Online/In Background)

   12.      Phase-In Equipment

   13.      Condition-Based Maintenance

   14.      Counter-Based Preventive Maintenance

   15.      Time-Based Preventive Maintenance

   16.      Emergency Maintenance

   17.      Corrective Maintenance

   18.      Breakdown Maintenance

   19.      Refurbishment Processing

   20.      Work Clearance Management

   21.      Maintenance Cost Budgeting

   22.      Shutdown Management

   23.      Dispatching/Scheduling

   24.      Change and Configuration Management

   25.      Physical Inventory on Storage-Bin Level

   26.      Inspection

   27.      Waste Management

   28.      Phase-Out Equipment

   29.      Asset Scrapping

Result

The Enterprise Asset Management scenario provides complete, end-to-end, integrated capabilities for your EAM business process. The scenario gives asset owners and operators, asset service providers, and all parties involved in the asset service network an insight into asset performance and maintenance issues. This awareness enables proactive response and rapid correction of concerns or problems.