Single Cycle Plan and Strategy Plan (SAP Library

Single Cycle Plan and Strategy Plan

Definition

Single cycle plans or strategy plans are maintenance plans with which you can show time-based or performance-based maintenance cycles.

Use

You use single cycle plans to show simple maintenance cycles.

A single cycle plan is the simplest form of maintenance plan. You create a single cycle plan and define exactly one time-based or performance-based maintenance cycle, in which you specify the interval at which the maintenance plan should be executed.

It might be used, for example, for the annual maintenance of a car or for the repair of a photocopier after every 10,000 copies.

In contrast, you use strategy plans to show complex maintenance cycles.

You create a strategy plan and assign a maintenance strategy in which you have defined the maintenance cycles (in the strategy maintenance packages). A maintenance strategy contains general scheduling information, and can therefore be assigned to as many maintenance plans and maintenance task lists as required.

For example, it makes sense to use a strategy plan if different maintenance tasks for a car are due in different cycles: oil check every 1,242.74 mi, oil change every 6,213.71 mi.

For more information, see Time-Based Maintenance Plans and Performance-Based Maintenance Plans.

See also

Creating a Single Cycle Plan

Creating a Time-Based Strategy Plan

Creating a Performance-Based Strategy Plan