About the Book

15

What Is the Correct Naming?

16

Who This Book Is For

16

What This Book Can and Can’t Do

18

Structure of Contents

18

How to Read This Book

20

What’s New in This Book?

22

What Is the Status of Your SAP S/4HANA System?

22

1 SAP Projects in Plant Maintenance

27

1.1 A Possible Process for Your Plant Maintenance Project with SAP

27

1.1.1 Implementation Strategy

27

1.1.2 SAP Activate Methodology

29

1.2 General Risk Factors and Success Factors in SAP Projects: An Empirical Survey

35

1.2.1 Risk Factors

35

1.2.2 Success Factors

38

1.3 Tips for Your Plant Maintenance Project

40

1.3.1 Discover Phase

40

1.3.2 Prepare Phase

50

1.3.3 Explore Phase

69

1.3.4 Realize Phase

79

1.3.5 Deploy Phases

80

1.3.6 Run Phase

82

1.4 Summary

83

2 Configuring Organizational Structures

85

2.1 General SAP Organizational Units

86

2.1.1 Company Code

87

2.1.2 Controlling Area

90

2.1.3 Plant General

93

2.2 The Plant from a Maintenance Perspective

96

2.3 Maintenance-Specific Organizational Units

100

2.4 Work Centers

104

2.5 Summary

115

3 Configuring Generic Functions

117

3.1 Object Information

118

3.2 Status Management

121

3.3 Number Assignment

127

3.4 Warranties

132

3.5 Measuring Points and Counters

135

3.6 Permits

140

3.7 Partners

141

3.8 Documents

147

3.9 Field Selection

158

3.10 List Variants

163

3.11 Multilevel Lists

168

3.12 Summary

171

4 Configuring the Structure of Technical Systems

173

4.1 Structuring Elements

173

4.2 Functional Locations and Reference Functional Locations

175

4.3 Equipment

187

4.4 Fleet Management

197

4.5 Links and Networks

206

4.6 Linear Asset Management

209

4.7 Materials and Assemblies

221

4.7.1 Material Types

223

4.7.2 Material Master Layout

228

4.7.3 Field Selection

240

4.8 Serial Numbers

245

4.9 Bill of Material

252

4.10 Summary

262

5 Configuring the Work Order Cycle

265

5.1 Notifications

267

5.1.1 Notification Types

269

5.1.2 Catalogs and Catalog Profiles

283

5.1.3 Other Functions

292

5.2 Orders

302

5.2.1 Order Types

306

5.2.2 Availability Check

325

5.2.3 Electronic Parts Catalogs

333

5.2.4 Material Planning

343

5.2.5 Scheduling

354

5.2.6 Capacity Planning

369

5.2.7 Printing

378

5.2.8 Estimated Costs and Costing

389

5.2.9 Order Settlement

406

5.2.10 Project Management and Investment Management

414

5.2.11 Other Functions

423

5.3 Completion Confirmations

433

5.3.1 SAP S/4HANA Asset Management Completion Confirmations

433

5.3.2 Cross-Application Time Sheet Confirmations

439

5.4 Summary

444

6 Configuring Preventive Maintenance

447

6.1 Task Lists

449

6.2 Maintenance Plans

459

6.3 Summary

466

7 Configuring Additional Business Processes

467

7.1 External Processing

468

7.1.1 External Processing as an Individual Purchase Order

469

7.1.2 External Processing with Service Specifications

475

7.2 Refurbishment

483

7.2.1 Material Master

485

7.2.2 Refurbishment Notifications

491

7.2.3 Refurbishment Orders

493

7.2.4 Material Requirements Planning

498

7.3 Subcontracting

501

7.4 Calibration of Test/Measurement Equipment

506

7.4.1 Customizing Functions for Plant Maintenance

508

7.4.2 Customizing Functions for Quality Management

523

7.5 Pool Asset Management

542

7.6 Maintenance Event Builder

561

7.7 Shift Reports and Shift Notes

564

7.8 Summary

575

8 Configuring SAP Fiori Launchpad for Plant Maintenance

577

8.1 Basics of SAP Fiori

577

8.1.1 SAP Fiori Design

578

8.1.2 Types of SAP Fiori Apps

579

8.1.3 Characteristics of SAP Fiori

583

8.2 How to Configure an SAP Fiori Launchpad with SAPUI5 Apps

584

8.2.1 Step 1: Check SAP System Data

585

8.2.2 Step 2: Browse the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

587

8.2.3 Step 3: Configure the Logon/Logoff Screen

590

8.2.4 Step 4: Create a Role

592

8.2.5 Step 5: Create a New Group for SAP Fiori Launchpad

593

8.2.6 Step 6: Assign Role Authorizations

595

8.2.7 Step 7: Initialize the App

596

8.3 How to Configure an SAP Fiori Launchpad with Non-SAPUI5 Apps

598

8.3.1 Step 2: Browse the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

599

8.3.2 Step 5: Create a Business Catalog

601

8.3.3 Step 8: Initialize the App

605

8.4 SAP Fiori Apps for Plant Maintenance

607

8.4.1 Report and Repair Malfunction

607

8.4.2 Request Maintenance

612

8.4.3 Maintenance Planning Overview

615

8.4.4 Maintenance Scheduling Board

617

8.4.5 Manage Work Center Utilization

618

8.4.6 Technical Object Damages

619

8.4.7 Analytical List Page for Technical Object Breakdown Analysis

620

8.4.8 Actual Maintenance Cost Analysis

622

8.4.9 Find Maintenance Objects

624

8.4.10 Monitor Material Coverage

627

8.5 How to Configure SAP S/4HANA for SAP Fiori Launchpad

629

8.5.1 Customizing

629

8.5.2 Check and Activate ICF services

634

8.5.3 Check and Install OData Services

636

8.6 Summary

638

9 Usability

641

9.1 The User’s Own Options

642

9.1.1 General User Parameters

642

9.1.2 Maintenance-Specific User Parameters

644

9.1.3 Roles and Favorites

651

9.1.4 List Variants

652

9.1.5 Personalizing Input Help

659

9.1.6 Buttons and Key Combinations

660

9.1.7 Table Controls

661

9.2 The IT Department’s Nonprogramming Options

664

9.2.1 Transaction Variants

664

9.2.2 Customizing

670

9.2.3 Action Box

674

9.2.4 SAP Business Client

675

9.2.5 SAP Work Manager

680

9.2.6 SAP Asset Manager

688

9.2.7 SAP Fiori

697

9.2.8 GuiXT

698

9.2.9 SAP Screen Personas

704

9.3 The IT Department’s Programming Options

708

9.3.1 Upstream Transactions

708

9.3.2 Business Application Programming Interfaces

710

9.3.3 Web Interface

712

9.3.4 Customer Exits

715

9.3.5 Business Add-Ins and Enhancement Points

718

9.3.6 SAP Business Workflow

721

9.4 Summary

726

A Project Plans and Overviews

729

A.1 Functional Scope of SAP S/4HANA Asset Management and Assignment of Priorities

729

A.2 Authorization Objects in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management

735

A.3 BAPIs for SAP S/4HANA Asset Management

736

A.4 Customer Exits for SAP S/4HANA Asset Management

743