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 Enterprise Asset Management Part 7

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

LOG_EAM_CI_7

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Availability

SAP enhancement package 4 (SP17) for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications

Application Component

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Required Business Function

This business function allows you to use various enhancements for processes in Plant Maintenance:

  • You can use the mass data change function in list editing for maintenance plans and maintenance items.

  • You can change the notification type of maintenance and service notifications while creating or changing the notifications.

    This function is available from SAP enhancement package 6 (SP15) for SAP ERP 6.0.

  • You can show the number of rows in Plant Maintenance and Quality Management reports. You can also use this function independently of this business function.

  • You can create follow-on orders for maintenance orders and operations and display the relationships between the orders in a hierarchical list in the document flow.

  • You can print maintenance orders before they have been released. You can also print orders after they have been completed.

  • You can set the statuses Cancel Technical Completion and Do not execute for one or more orders in the order and operation lists.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components with the version mentioned or higher:

    Component Type

    Component

    Only Required for the Following Functions

    Software Component

    EA-APPL 604

    SAP_APPL 604

Features

Mass Change of Maintenance Plans and Items

In list editing for maintenance plans and maintenance items (transactions ip15 and ip17), you can carry out mass data changes for one or more selected maintenance plans or items. You choose the fields for the mass change in a popup and enter the appropriate values. You can also define that only specific field values should be replaced by new field values. The system displays in which documents the mass change could be successfully carried out.

The business add-ins (BAdIs) BAdI: Mass Change of Maintenance Plan Header Data (MPLAN_HEADER_MASS_CHANGE) and BAdI: Mass Change of Maintenance Items (MPLAN_ITEM_MASS_CHANGE) are available for making customer-specific enhancements to the mass data change function.

For more information, see Mass Change of Maintenance Plan Data and Mass Change of Maintenance Item Data.

Changing the Notification Type

Up to now, it was only possible to change the notification type for general notifications and quality notifications. To be able to change the notification type in quality notifications, the business function QM, Extensions in Quality Control and Quality Notification (OPS_QM_EXTENSION_3) must be activated.

The business function Enterprise Asset Management Part 7 (LOG_EAM_CI_7) now enables you to allow users to change the notification type when creating and changing maintenance and service notifications (transactions iw21, iw22, iw51, and iw52). In Customizing you can specify which target notification types are allowed for which original notification types, so that when users change maintenance and service notifications, they can only change the notification type entered to one you have allowed. The original notification type and the target notification type must have the same notification category. In addition, you can only change the notification type of maintenance and service notifications if the notification has not yet been completed.

When the notification type is changed, the system does not assign a new notification number and all data of the original notification type is retained (such as reference objects). This also applies even if specific data is irrelevant for the target notification type. To override this behavior, implement the Business Add-In (BAdI) Checks for Extended Change of Notification Type (BADI_IQS0_NOTIF_TYPE_CHANGE).

For more information, see Changing the Notification Type.

New Row Counter in ALV Lists

You can display the number of entries listed in Plant Maintenance and Quality Management reports. If you choose to display the Count. (counter) table column, the system displays the total number of displayed entries in a separate row at the beginning or at the end of the table, as well as above the table. When you select a table column and group according to the values in that column by choosing Subtotal, the system displays the total number of entries as well as the subtotals for each group in the Count. table column. This function is only available in ALV lists.

Creating Follow-On Orders

You can create maintenance orders as follow-on orders for an order or order operation. When you create a follow-on order, you create a relationship to the reference order or operation and you can display this relationship in the document flow. You can create follow-on orders directly (transaction iw31), when changing or displaying an order (transactions iw32 and iw33), or when creating a confirmation (transaction iw41). In order processing, appropriate pushbuttons show you whether the respective order has a preceding or follow-on order. You can display the relationship between the preceding order and the follow-on order in a hierarchical structure.

When you create a new order as a follow-on order for an existing order, the system copies some header data to the new order. You can use checkboxes to specify whether the system should also copy operation data, components, relationships, settlement rules, and document links to the follow-on order.

Note Note

You can only display this relationship between preceding and follow-on orders if you are using the enhanced document flow functions in the maintenance order. The enhanced document flow has been integrated into this business function, but is also part of the business function Enterprise Asset Management Part 6 (LOG_EAM_CI_6).

You can also create follow-on orders with the BAPI BAPI_ALM_ORDER_MAINTAIN.

You can only create follow-on orders for orders that have been released.

If you have defined view profiles and assigned them to the appropriate order types in Customizing, you can display and edit maintenance orders in the simple order view. You cannot, however, create follow-on orders from the simple order view and the system does not display whether the respective order already has preceding or follow-on orders.

End of the note.

For more information, see Creating Follow-On Orders.

Preprinting and Reprinting Maintenance Orders

You can print shop papers before the maintenance order is released and after it is completed. If you allow shop papers to be preprinted and reprinted by making the appropriate Customizing settings, you can print shop papers for orders that have the status created or technically completed, for example. The printing status in the order tells you if the shop papers belonging to the maintenance order and operations have been preprinted, printed, or reprinted. This function is available in the SAP GUI transactions and on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance.

For more information, see Preprinting and Reprinting Maintenance Orders.

Additional Order Statuses in Order List

You can set the statuses Cancel Technical Completion and Do not execute for one or more orders in the order and operation lists (transactions iw38 and iw37n).

For more information, see Processing Orders Collectively.