Maint. Plan with Reference to an Outline Agreement (SAP Library

Maint. Plan with Reference to an Outline Agreement

Use

By creating a maintenance plan with reference to an outline agreement, you can simplify the processing of services which you have agreed for service objects in outline agreements.

You can create maintenance plans for this purpose for which the system generates the following maintenance call objects:

Service notification

Service order

You can define which maintenance call object (service notification or order) is generated by a maintenance plan by specifying a maintenance plan category when you create a maintenance plan.

Integration

The maintenance plan with reference to an outline agreement combines the functions from the Plant Maintenance (PM), Sales and Distribution (SD) and Customer Service (CS) application components.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be fulfilled for you to create a maintenance plan with reference to an outline agreement.

Service Product

You have maintained the following data for the service product that you subsequently entered in the outline agreement under Logistics ® Customer Service ® Contracts and planning ® Environment ® Sales ® Service products:

Plant for maintenance planning
Work center
Order type
Plant of maintenance work center
Business area
General maintenance task list (you cannot assign equipment task lists or functional location task lists)
Task list type

Outline Agreements

You have created an outline agreement that fulfils the following conditions:

The contract category is Contract.
The contract type is Service and Maintenance (WV).

On the tabstrip Sales, you have specified

the start and end dates of the contract
a service product as outline agreement item

You have specified the start and end dates for billing in the billing plan under Goto ® Item ® Billing plan.

You can create a maintenance plan for outline agreement items with the following status:

Overall status

Outstanding

In process

Completion status

Complete

Rejection status

Not rejected (The system assigns the outline agreement item when creating a maintenance plan.)

Partially rejected (The system issues a warning and assigns the outline agreement item when creating a maintenance plan.)

When Creating the Maintenance Plan

When creating a maintenance plan, you choose an appropriate maintenance plan category. In the standard system, this is one of the following maintenance plan categories:

Maintenance plan category with reference to an outline agreement, maintenance call object "service notification"
Maintenance plan category with reference to an outline agreement, maintenance call object "service order"

Enter the following data:

Valid outline agreement

You cannot create a maintenance plan for an agreement that has expired.

Outline agreement item
Maintenance planning plant

Features

You can create a maintenance plan with reference to an outline agreement and for a maintenance planning plant (PM planning plant). Each agreement item for an outline agreement can:

Apply to your own dates
Apply to different objects (object list)
Have its own status (for example, Outstanding, In process, Complete)

To ensure a unique assignment between outline agreement item and maintenance plan, you must create your own maintenance plan for each outline agreement item. Therefore, a maintenance plan created with reference to an outline agreement only ever contains one maintenance item.

Maintenance Call Object "Service Notification"

When a maintenance plan is being created with the maintenance call object Service notification, the system copies the start of the agreement as the start date for scheduling from the outline agreement into the field Cycle start of scheduling parameters. The maintenance item does not have an object list.

Maintenance Call Object "Service Order"

When a maintenance plan is being created with the maintenance call object Service order, the system copies the proposed dates for the service order from the service product. The start of the agreement as the start date for scheduling is copied from the outline agreement into the field Cycle start of scheduling parameters. The maintenance item for the maintenance plan contains the object list (for example, all copying equipment which should be maintained according to the outline agreement item). The object list in the maintenance plan refers to the outline agreement, that is, it contains your data from the outline agreement and can only be changed there. The remaining data for the maintenance plan consists of default values that you can change directly in the maintenance plan.

Since you have assigned a general maintenance task list to the service product, the system obtains information about the maintenance plan type when a maintenance plan is created. The type of maintenance plan is determined using the maintenance strategy which is specified in the general maintenance task list. The table clarifies the system activities for the different call objects:

Strategy	Call Object	System Activity
Time-based or performance-based	Service order	The system creates a strategy plan and obtains data (for example, maintenance packages) from the strategy. For performance-based maintenance plans, you must also enter a counter in the maintenance plan.
None	Service order	The system creates a single cycle plan. You must enter the maintenance cycle manually.
Time-based or performance-based	Service notification
None	Service notification

Scheduling a Maintenance Plan with Reference to an Outline Agreement

For scheduling, the system creates maintenance calls for the scheduling period that you have defined using the scheduling parameters, or maintenance call objects (for example, service orders) for the due date. However, the decisive factor in creating maintenance calls and maintenance call objects is the end date for the outline agreement item and not the scheduling period. If the agreement has expired, the system does not generate any call objects for maintenance calls with the status On hold, and no longer generates any new maintenance calls.

If you change the object list or the validity of the agreement in the outline agreement, the changes come into effect when the maintenance plan is rescheduled.

You can display the document flow for the service notification or service order, that is, which predecessor and successor documents exist and their status. For more information, see Document Flow.

Activities

In the menu

Activity	Menu Path
Creating an outline agreement	Logistics ® Customer service ® Contracts and planning and then Contracts ® Contract ® Create
Assigning an object list in the outline agreement	Extras ® Technical objects
Assigning a general maintenance task list to a service product	Logistics ® Customer service ® Contracts and planning and then Environment ® Sales and distribution ® Service products Choose Edit ® New entries.
Displaying a document flow (for example, for a service order)	Logistics ® Customer service ® Service processing ® Service order ® Order ® Display ® Extras ® <Documents for notification/Documents for order> and then Environment ® Maintenance contract ® <Desired function>

In Customizing

Activity	Menu Path	Special Features
Define your own maintenance plan categories as required.	In Customizing of Plant Maintenance under Plant Maintenance ® Maintenance Plans, Work Centers, Task Lists and PRTs ® Maintenance Plans ® Set Maintenance Plan Categories.	Set the indicator for the maintenance contract. You must define Service notification or Service order as the maintenance call object for the maintenance plan category with reference to an outline agreement. The indicator Service must be set for the order type under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Plant Maintenance and Services ® PM Orders and Service Orders ® Functions and Settings for Order Types ® Credit Limit Checks, Sales Document Types for Service Orders.

For more information about outline agreements, see Customer Contracts in the Sales and Distribution application component.

Additional Information

Creating a Maintenance Plan for an Outline Agreement

Defining a Default Value for a Maintenance Plan Category