ETM - Equipment and Tools Management 

Purpose

Equipment and Tools Management (ETM) deals with issues that secure an optimal process flow in enterprise areas of (construction) companies or equipment rental companies, and so on, in aspects such as planning, processing, settlement and evaluation of resources (materials and equipment).

Integration

If you want to use ETM, you must have the application components Sales and Distribution (SD), Plant Maintenance (PM), Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO). To make full use of the integrative nature of the SAP R/3 System, it is also advisable to use the application components Asset Accounting (AA) and Project System (PS).

Features

·        Representation of various catalogs containing equipment, machinery, tools, accessories and attachments and so on

·        Catalog BOMs (bills of material)

·        Shipping and settlement packages

·        Relationships between owners and administrators of equipment

·        Shipping and performance-based equipment (PBE) documents

·        Settlement calendar

·        Filler calendar for PBE

·        Time-based or performance-based settlement

·        Inventory management

·        Equipment planning

·        Evaluations and reporting functions (settlement lists, statements of usage, stock lists for construction sites and so on)

The following documentation uses almost always the term “Equipment and Tools Management” or the abbreviation “ETM”. However, note that the previous term “Construction Equipment Management” (CEM), which was valid to Release 4.6C2, may still appear in this documentation.

Futhermore, as of SAP ECC DIMP 5.0, the character J, which was previously used in ETM tables and programs, has been replaced by the character 4. For more information, see SAP Note 731876.