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 Changing a Maintenance Strategy

Use

It may be necessary for you to change a maintenance strategy, for example, because you find the best solution for scheduling after a certain period has elapsed. In this case, you can change the scheduling parameters or the cycle in which the maintenance packages should be performed.

After the changes have been made, the activities contained in the maintenance plan are performed in the new maintenance cycle. If you change a package from a 1-month cycle to a 2-month cycle in a strategy, all the maintenance tasks assigned to this package are scheduled at 2-month intervals from now on.

You can use a maintenance strategy in several maintenance plans simultaneously. This means that when you change a maintenance strategy, the changes that affect one maintenance package are copied into all the maintenance plans to which this strategy has been assigned. It therefore makes sense to find out to which maintenance plans a maintenance strategy was assigned by performing a where-used list for maintenance strategies before you make any changes.

You can find further information about the effects of the changes, for example, which data is copied from the strategy into the maintenance plan and which is referenced, under scheduling parameter .

Procedure

To call the individual functions in the table, in the SAP Easy Access menu choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Plant Maintenance Next navigation step Preventive Maintenance Next navigation step Maintenance Planning Next navigation step Maintenance Strategies Next navigation step Change End of the navigation path , and select a strategy.

Function

Menu Path/Pushbutton

What You Should Know

Changing a maintenance strategy header

Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Detail End of the navigation path

You can change the strategy description and the scheduling parameters .

To call the following functions, double-click Packages in the overview tree.

Adding maintenance packages

Choose New Entries .

See Adding Maintenance Packages

Deleting maintenance packages

Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Delete End of the navigation path

Before the system deletes maintenance packages, it performs a series of checks to ensure that the packages are not being used in a maintenance task list . If the packages are used in one or more task lists, the system issues a message in a dialog box informing you of this, and you will not be able to delete the packages.

It is possible to reactivate deleted maintenance packages. However, this assumes that you have not saved the changes after deletion and have not exited the transaction (see Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages .

Reactivating deleted, changed and created maintenance packages

Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages

Copying maintenance packages

See Copying Maintenance Packages

Displaying a list of all changed maintenance packages

Start of the navigation path Selection Next navigation step All Changed Entries End of the navigation path

This function is available if you have not saved and have not exited the transaction.

You can undo changes (see Reactivating Processed Maintenance Packages ).

Displaying a list of all added maintenance packages

Start of the navigation path Selection Next navigation step All Added Entries End of the navigation path

Displaying a list of all deleted packages

Start of the navigation path Selection Next navigation step Display Deleted Entries End of the navigation path

See also:

Deleting a Maintenance Strategy .

Rescheduling Maintenance Plans After Changing the Maintenance Strategy