Shutdown Management 

Purpose

You can use this business process to manage a shutdown (or outage) of a plant or a facility. The process involves scheduling all of the work in a critical time window, and completing the required work on time and within the budget assigned to the shutdown. The key to the success of the process is to have a close relationship between the actual work being performed and the overall schedule and budget.

Prerequisites

This process assumes that work orders have already been planned and any required links or relationships between the work orders have been established. A planned order should already have all the required instructions and parts required to complete the order.

Process Flow

The following business process runs in SAP ECC:

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       1.      Create shutdown revision

       2.      Assign orders to revision

       3.      Create project

       4.      Update project with activities and relationships

       5.      Assign orders to activities

       6.      Add additional link to details on orders

       7.      Maintain project budget

       8.      Perform project cost planning

       9.      Perform project scheduling

   10.      Schedule orders from project planning

   11.      Review activity operation float

   12.      Perform material availability check from order

   13.      Perform capacity evaluations

   14.      Perform capacity leveling

   15.      Review project information (activity overview, Gantt chart, budget)

   16.      Release project

   17.      Release orders

   18.      Establish baseline

   19.      Manage work

   20.      Adjust schedule

   21.      Review floats, versions, capacities

   22.      Complete work

   23.      Perform analysis

Result

Properly executed, a large project will run on time and within the planned budget.