Maintenance and Service Planning (MSP)

Purpose

You use the component Maintenance and Service Planning ( MSP ) to perform

  • Strategic planning over a long-term horizon, such as 5-10 years, allowing you to determine the resources necessary to meet future maintenance demands

  • Tactical planning over a mid-term horizon, such as 1-18 months, to ensure your maintenance objects remain serviceable, optimize utilization of your maintenance objects, and balance the resource load in your service areas

Implementation Considerations

You should implement this component if you have large and complex technical objects, which require complicated maintenance tasks to be performed at set periods (such as after a predefined operation time).

Integration

You can use MSP either as a standalone solution in SAP SCM or together with an SAP R/3 system, that is a Discrete Industries and Mill Products (DIMP) system. You can transfer the planning-relevant data (such as master data) from the SAP R/3 system to SAP SCM. You perform long-term or mid-term planning in SAP SCM and transfer the planning results to SAP R/3.

MSP is also integrated with SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), enabling you to use a variety of reporting functions from SAP BW.

Integration of MSP with other SAP SCM components and SAP R/3

Activity

Procedure

Other Information

Create master data (work centers and plants)

You transfer the master data from SAP R/3 and complete the master data in SAP SCM

SAP R/3 provides MSP with master data. For more information, see Integration of SAP SCM and SAP R/3 .

Create master data (maintenance objects)

You transfer the functional locations and equipment from SAP R/3 and complete the master data in SAP SCM

SAP R/3 provides MSP with master data. For more information, see Maintenance Object .

Create master data (resources)

You can create resources either in the Maintenance Task List function or using the standard SAP SCM function.

For more information about the standard SAP SCM function to create resources, see Resource .

Process the Supply Chain Model

You use the Maintenance Objects function to assign a maintenance object to a model (for the Supply Chain Engineer (SCE) )

Before you can plan a maintenance object, you assign it to a model. Note that while creating a maintenance object, the system automatically assigns it to model 000, although you can change that assignment. For more information, see Supply Chain Model, Planning Version, and Supply Chain Engineer .

Maintain planning versions

You maintain planning versions for a supply chain model for simulation purposes using master data.

Display exceptional, unexpected, or critical situations in the maintenance and service planning processing

Access the Alert Monitor

You can define which alerts you would like the system to generate and display.

Launch queries in the Supply Chain Cockpit (SCC)

Access the SCC

You can launch queries on maintenance object, maintenance task list, maintenance and service planning board, and the alert monitor.

Run a model consistency check

You run a model consistency check to ensure that the master data assigned to a model or work area is complete and consistent for planning purposes.

In MSP, you run the check on maintenance task lists, maintenance objects, resources, and locations. For more information, see Consistency Checks for MSP .

Maintain distribution criteria for planning results

You make a distribution definition to distribute the planning results to an execution system.

You can set distribution definitions for several combinations of publication type and location. For more information, see Generating and Deleting Distribution Definitions

Features

  • Maintenance Task Lists

    You use maintenance task lists to describe the maintenance work to be performed in the form of a list of activities with capacity requirements of resources and activity relationships.

  • Maintenance Profiles

    MSP uses maintenance profiles in SAP SCM to retrieve planning parameters, such as a planning horizon or planning priority.

  • Maintenance Objects

    You use maintenance objects to represent functional locations and equipment. You can transfer the required functional locations and equipment from SAP R/3 to SAP SCM and then create the equivalent maintenance objects in SAP SCM. This allows you to transfer the MSP planning data back to SAP R/3. Alternatively, you can create maintenance objects in SCM without reference to functional locations and equipment in SAP R/3. You use those objects in simulative planning.

  • Automated Planning

    You use the automated planning run to create a new plan, which deletes any existing plans, or make net changes to an existing plan, which plans demands that have an alert and, if necessary, their dependent demands.

  • Interactive Planning

    You can use interactive planning for important maintenance demands or one-time demands that you wish to plan manually or to solve planning problems that may have arisen during the automated planning run.

  • Simulative Planning

    You can set up planning simulations, which allow you to examine all aspects and options of a given situation, as well as simulate the effect of a number of parameters, either before running a new maintenance plan, or to view the effects of changes to an existing plan.

  • Data Transfer

    You can transfer the planning data back to SAP R/3. This enables you to use the SAP SCM maintenance and service planning data in the Maintenance Event Builder (MEB) component in SAP for Aerospace & Defense (SAP for A&D). For more information about the MEB, see Work Packaging and Sequencing in the SAP Library for SAP for A&D.

  • Plan Reporting

    Plan reporting in MSP assist you by providing information for evaluation purposes about a maintenance and service plan, utilization of resources, maintenance areas, maintenance objects, and so on.

  • Consistency Checks

    You can ensure that the data for MSPis consistent by performing a number of consistency checks.