Recommendations for Maintenance Order Handling

Preparations in SAP R/3

Maintain master data on the basis of scheduling in SAP R/3 or in SAP APO.

Create and activate integration models for the master data.

Create your own order types for plant maintenance (PM) and refurbishment orders that should be transferred to SAP APO.

Select the orders for scheduling in SAP APO in the integration model by using the filter objects order type and plant. Maintenance orders are material-independent objects.

In SAP APO, if you want to indicate operation types (such as internal, external), enter an operation type abbreviation in the operation short text.

To transfer downtimes in SAP APO, in SAP R/3, in the order header, enter the functional location or equipment in which a work center is entered. In addition, in SAP R/3, in the order header, in the System Condition field, enter a value for which the indicator Production Work Center Reserved by Plant Maintenance is set.

For more information about PM orders, at http://help.sap.com/http://help.sap.com , see SAP R/3 Enterprise <Your Release>→ SAP R/3 Enterprise Application Components → Logistics → Plant Maintenance (PM) → Maintenance Order Management (PM-WOC) → Orders (CS-SE/PM-WOC-MO)

Preparations in SAPAPO

Create an overall profile for Detailed Scheduling (DS) planning board for selecting maintenance and refurbishment orders.

You create an overall profile in the mySAP SCM Implementation Guide (IMG), under Advanced Planning and Optimization → Supply Chain Planning → Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) → Detailed Scheduling Planning Board (Called Directly) → Maintain Overall Profiles

Create a work area profile for the DS planning board, for example, to specify the initial chart display.

You create work areas in the IMG, under Advanced Planning and Optimization → Supply Chain Planning → Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS → Detailed Scheduling Planning Board (Called Directly) → Maintain Work Areas

Maintenance orders are always fixed in SAP APO.

Functions inAPOPP/DS

Process Order (Transaction code /SAPAPO/RRP2)

Enter the SAP R/3 order number in the selection field for the maintenance order.

For maintenance orders with downtimes on functional location or equipment, choose Downtime to view the relevant resources and downtimes.

For more information about processing orders, see Processing Receipts Manually .

Detailed Scheduling (DS) Planning Board (Transaction code /SAPAPO/CDPS0)

PM downtimes on a resource start and end according to the maintenances order start and end dates.

As no capacity requirements are transferred with maintenance orders, the operations are not displayed in the resource chart.

Maintenance and refurbishment orders are fixed; no scheduling is possible. Orders and operations are only for display purposes.

Component requirements can be integrated in the normal production situation.

Graphical overview:

In the resource chart, a downtime is shown as a gray background bar. By navigating to the resource, you display the entered type of the PM order downtime.

Order chart shows only the start and end dates of a maintenance order and a refurbishment order. The order is selected only through its components.

SAP default Customizing presents the normal order in BROWN_2, the final confirmed order in DARKGREEN, and the fixed order in RED_5. For more information, see Preparatory Activities for Maintenance Orders .

Product chart is relevant only if the maintenance or refurbishment order has a pegging relation (fixed/dynamic) to a production order, for example

For more information about the DS planning board, see Calling Up the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board .

Production Planning Run (MRP) (Transaction code /SAPAPO/CDPSB0)

You can use material requirements planning (MRP) for maintenance orders and refurbishment orders with components.

For more information, see Production Planning Run .

Pegging Overview (Transaction code /SAPAPO/PEG1)

Pegging relations of maintenance and refurbishment orders with components to other documents are shown (fixed, dynamic).

For more information, see Pegging .

Planning Version Management (Transaction code /SAPAPO/VERCOP)

Maintenance and refurbishment orders can be copied from active planning versions into simulation planning versions.

For more information, see Supply Chain Model, Planning Version, and Supply Chain Engineer .

Consistency Check (Transaction code /SAPAPO/OM17)

Operation and downtime inconsistencies of maintenance orders can be checked in SAP APO.

For more information about the liveCache consistency check, at http://service.sap.com/scmhttp://service.sap.com/scm , see mySAP SCM Technology → Consistency Checks .

CIF Delta Report (Transaction code /SAPAPO/CCR)

Inconsistencies between maintenance orders in SAP APO and PM orders and refurbishment orders in SAP R/3 are found and corrected.

For more information, see CIF Comparison/Reconciliation of Transaction Data .