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 Simplified Management of EAM Functions 4

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_4

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Availability

SAP enhancement package 7 (SP07) for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications

Application Component

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Required Business Function

Simplified Management of EAM Functions 3 (LOG_EAM_SIMPLICITY_3)

This business function provides you with enhanced functions for planning and performing maintenance tasks on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance. This business function enables you to use several functions in maintenance orders, notifications, task lists, and maintenance plans on the Web UI that up to now were only available in the respective SAP GUI transactions.

You can use the features of this business function in the following ways:

  • In SAP NetWeaver Portal with the business packages Business Package for Maintenance Worker 1.61 and Business Package for Generic EAM Functions 1.61

  • In SAP NetWeaver Business Client with the PFCG roles Maintenance Worker (SAP_COCKPIT_EAMS_MAINT_WORKER2) and Generic EAM Functions (SAP_COCKPIT_EAMS_GENERIC_FUNC2)

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components with the version mentioned or higher:

    Component Type

    Component

    Only Required for the Following Functions

    Software Component

    SAP_APPL 617, EA-APPL 617

    SAP NetWeaver

    Portal Content (optional)

    SAP NetWeaver 7.4

    Business Package for Generic EAM Functions 1.61

    Business Package for Maintenance Worker 1.61

  • You have activated the business function Simplified Management of EAM Functions 3.

  • You have made all the necessary settings in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Start of the navigation path Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Maintenance Worker End of the navigation path.

Features

Enhancements for Task Lists

You can create task lists using a template (reference), you can create task lists in a maintenance order, and you can create relationships between operations.

  • Creating task lists using a template or reference means that you are able to create a new task list by copying an existing one. You can specify whether you want to copy relationships, permits, linked documents, and task list descriptions to the new task list by selecting the respective checkboxes.

  • Creating task lists while in the maintenance order means that you are able to plan your maintenance work directly in the order you are currently creating or changing. When you create a task list while in an order, the system proposes using the header data of the order for the task list and copies the order's operations, suboperations, long texts, assigned materials, and service packages to the task list. You can select specific operations that you want to be copied to the task list. You can also specify whether you want relationships and document links to be copied from the order to the task list. If you create a task list from an order, the task list is independent of the order and is not automatically assigned to it.

    You can use the Business Add-In BAdI: Changing Data when Creating Task List from Order (Web UI) (EAMS_TL_CREATE) to modify any of the data copied from the order to the task list.

  • In the operation details, you can create relationships between task list operations by entering them in a table. Using a graphical editor, you can visualize the relationships as well as change them.

For more information, see Task List and Notifications and Task Lists in Maintenance Orders.

Enhancements for Maintenance Orders

This function provides the following new functions for processing maintenance orders on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance:

  • You can change operations and their suboperations on the Operation Data tab page.

  • In the suboperation details, you can specify an offset between the reference date of the corresponding operation and the start and finish of the suboperation. By doing so, you specify the sequence of the suboperations.

  • In the operation details, you can display splits that you have created in capacity planning for order operations in the corresponding SAP GUI transactions.

  • You can specify which status you want notifications to have when you change the system status of the order. For example, you can specify that when you technically complete an order, all the assigned notifications should also be completed.

    For more information about setting the system status in maintenance orders, see Changing the System Status in the Order.

  • You can visualize and change relationships between order operations in a graphical editor, which up to now was only possible in the operation details by entering the relationships in a table.

For more information, see Maintenance Order and Working with Operation Data in the Order.

Mass Change of Maintenance Documents

In the Order List, the Notification List, the Order and Operation List, and the Maintenance Plan and Maintenance Item List, you can select one or more maintenance documents and carry out mass data changes. On the popup Mass Change you can specify which fields and field values you want to change for all selected documents. You can save your selection as a variant. After carrying out the mass change, the new table column Changed indicates which maintenance documents were able to be changed successfully.

The business add-ins (BAdIs) BAdI: Mass Change of Maintenance Plan Header Data (MPLAN_HEADER_MASS_CHANGE) and BAdI: Mass Change of Maintenance Items (MPLAN_ITEM_MASS_CHANGE) are available for making customer-specific enhancements to the mass data change function for maintenance plans and items.

For more information, see Order and Notification List and Maintenance Plan and Maintenance Item List.

Relationships in Orders and Task Lists

Relationships describe how operations are linked to one another in the process and determine their sequence. Up to now on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance, you could only create relationships between operations in maintenance orders and only by entering them in a table. This function enables you to create the relationships between operations in task lists as well. In addition, you can visualize and change relationships using a graphical editor.

For more information, see Relationships on the Web UI.

Maintenance Plan and Maintenance Item List

A new, individually configurable worklist (POWL) for processing maintenance plans and maintenance items is available. The Maintenance Plan and Maintenance Item List provides you with the most important information in a table and enables you to not only process individual documents, but also carry out mass changes to maintenance plan and maintenance item data.

For more information, see Maintenance Plan and Maintenance Item List.

Enhancements for Order and Notification List

Enhanced processing options in the Order and Notification List as well as a new, individually configurable worklist (POWL) for processing maintenance orders and order operations are available.

  • The new tab page Order and Operation List lists maintenance orders and their operations, including the suboperations.

  • In the Notification List, you can assign one or more notifications that have not yet been assigned to a maintenance order either to an existing order or to a new order by creating one without leaving the list.

  • All the lists enable you to change the status of several documents at the same time as well as carry out mass changes to notification data, order data, and operation data.

For more information, see Order and Notification List.

Enhancements for Confirmations

In the Confirmation List, you can confirm that jobs for splits have been completed and you can set the technically completed status for orders.

For more information, see Confirmation List.

Number of Assigned Documents in the Identification Region

In orders, notifications, task lists, and technical objects, the system displays the number of assigned documents in the Identification Region.