SAP PM Enhanced Features-ECC 6.

Screen Changes

Screen Changes

Screen Changes

Basic Order View

The new basic order view functionality comes with 19 predefined subscreens that can be used to create order types tailored to customer-specific needs, including the following: Responsibilities - Technical reference object - Dates (basic or enhanced view) - Description (short or long text) - Operation data (with selected fields or detailed data) - Partner overview (basic or enhanced view) - Address data with dynamic tabs, depending on the number of available addresses - Service-specific data (being invisible for plant maintenance orders) Notification data (if customized for the order type to be visible) - Table control with operations - Ability to switch between old and new GUI at any time

Business Benefits
Improved flexibility of user interface - Adjustability to business needs and different users Faster identification of important data - Speeded-up data entry

Connection to text retrieval and information extraction (TREX ) search engine

Two new searches (quick search and advance search) through the text retrieval and information extraction (TREX) engine are implemented for the following maintenancerelated objects: - Functional location - Piece of equipment - Material master - Document Class - Characteristic

Business Benefits
With the new search, the user can enter a value or string, and the software will search through all those fields. With the search options available before the text retrieval and information extraction (TREX) search engine, the user had to know which field to search for a certain value. If the user wasnt sure about the field, the search was rather difficult and time consuming

Enhanced list editing

This functionality addresses the following issues: - Mass changes of orders and notifications - Mass cancellation of confirmations - Enhancements structure list

Business Benefits

This functionality provides the following benefits: - It improves user productivity. - It speeds up change process. - It improves data entry accuracy.

Maintenance technician role

This functionality accomplishes the following: - It provides an overview for orders and notifications, including technical object details. - It enables technical structure display with the option to access further relevant information and services. - It offers recording of orders, notifications, and confirmations, including after-event order recording for emergency work. - It provides easy access to analyses and reporting. The maintenance technician role provides a simple user interface for maintenance execution, request processing, confirmations, and reporting, and it offers a display of the asset structure. This role is used mainly by maintenance technicians. They need to get an overview, always up to date, of the maintenance work assigned to them, and they also need to check the status of the technical assets for which they are carrying out maintenance work. In addition, they need a tool that easily makes timely confirmations of the work they have done.

Business Benefits
Easy maintenance processing ensures high user acceptance - Information is always up to date, which leads to time savings and error reductions. - Personalization of the information improves efficiency and effectiveness.

Mobile work clearance management

SAP mobile work clearance management supports the logout/tag-out process by providing the following functionality: - Confirmation of the execution of the activity Rejection of an activity for switching items only - Confirmation of the completion of the activity

Business Benefits
This functionality provides the following benefits: - It supports the logout/tag-out process. - It replaces the printout of operational lists. - It improves productivity.

New enterprise asset management key performance indicators in the former SAP Business Information Warehouse (whose functionality is now part of SAP NetWeaver)
This functionality provides four new information providers: DataStore objects and InfoCubes on costs on maintenance orders and measurement points and documents. This functionality also provides nine new queries on the following: - Work management key performance indicators (maintenance order scheduling) - Failures and failure modes of equipment - Measurement points/counters and readings

Business Benefits
Enhanced reporting capabilities - More flexibility - Transparency of maintenance costs

SAP Mobile Asset Management version 3.0

This application provides new functionality: - Push alert for technicians - Ability to change orders (created in the back end) - Geographic information system (GIS) integration - Signature capture - Free-sorting functionality - Ability to create and change equipment and functional location - Usability improvements > Confirmation process (time and material) > Optimized inspection result recording > Enhanced search functionalities > GUI for laptop/Tablet PC

Business Benefits
This functionality provides the following benefits: - It alerts technicians to download new work orders or notifications. - It improves productivity. - It improves data capture quality. - It provides better information for route planning. - It improves the user's experience. - It improves and expedites the billing cycle.

SAP role: maintenance technician

The maintenance technician role provides a simple user interface for maintenance execution, request processing, confirmations, and reporting. It also displays the asset structure. - Target group This role is used mainly by maintenance technicians. They need to get an always up-to-date overview of the maintenance work assigned to them, and they also want to check the status of the technical assets for which they are carrying out maintenance work. In addition, they need a tool that facilitates timely confirmations of the work they have done. - Work overview The work overview provides a personalized work list of maintenance and service notifications, and of maintenance and service orders. It allows direct access to the confirmation. You can also create new notifications and orders, or you can call up after-event order recording. - Structure display Maintenance tasks are based on technical objects (pieces of equipment and functional locations) in the system. Pieces of equipment can contain a maintenance assembly (that is, a bill of materials [BOM]) through which the configuration and possible spare parts for the particular object are displayed. You can use the technical structure view to display the structure of technical objects and to dismantle, install, or replace pieces of equipment. The technical structure view also displays the maintenance schedule for a technical object, as well as the number of spare parts that are currently available in the plant for this technical object.

Business Benefits
This functionality provides the following benefits: - It reduces time spent on information exchange. - It improves quality of maintenance work. - It leverages transparency to promote collaboration on the shop floor.

SAP role: plant manager

In the plant manager role, manufacturing intelligence dashboards for the plant manager provide enhanced usability and functionality (regarding key figure monitoring) in comparison with the 2004 release of SAP ERP. Dashboards have also been created for the new production supervisor, maintenance technician, and quality inspector roles, to leverage this transparency and promote collaboration on the shop floor.

Business Benefits
This functionality provides the following benefits: - Easy access to aggregated data from multiple, heterogeneous software systems - Ability to monitor, measure, control, and improve production performance - Multiple ways to personalize the key figure monitor

Maintenance cost budgeting

With maintenance cost budgeting functionality, SAP offers a cross-application component for product life-cycle management that enables planning a maintenance cost budget. Maintenance cost budgeting in general helps you budget for all costs for maintenance, inspection, and repair of technical assets. In the stricter sense of SAP R/3 software, maintenance cost budgeting helps you budget for plant maintenance order costs. Maintenance cost budgeting provides the following planning scenario with preconfigured standard entries: - The history-based scenario is derived from records, and the budget categories are combined in one overall planning scenario. In this scenario, you can create records with the preventive, planned, and unplanned budget categories. - The ad-hoc (hist) scenario is - The maintenance plan scenario is zero based, and in it, you can create records only with the "preventive" budget category. - The task list scenario is zero based, and you can create records only with the "planned" budget category. - The ad hoc (plan) scenario is zero based, and you can create records with the planned and unplanned budget categories.

Business Benefits

Driving down maintenance costs - Better data integrity than with spreadsheet-based budgeting - Access to your plan data from everywhere with a user-friendly front end (Web interfaces) - Ability to reflect changes in the near future - - Continuous planning with standardized, automated budget processes - - Support of planning as a company-wide effort, with a great number of managers and employees contributing - Analytical applications, in addition to use as a tool

Maintenance cost budgeting

With maintenance cost budgeting functionality, SAP offers a cross-application component for product life-cycle management that enables planning a maintenance cost budget. Maintenance cost budgeting in general helps you budget for all costs for maintenance, inspection, and repair of technical assets. In the stricter sense of SAP R/3 software, maintenance cost budgeting helps you budget for plant maintenance order costs. Maintenance cost budgeting provides the following planning scenario with preconfigured standard entries: - The history-based scenario is derived from records, and the budget categories are combined in one overall planning scenario. In this scenario, you can create records with the preventive, planned, and unplanned budget categories. - The ad-hoc (hist) scenario is - The maintenance plan scenario is zero based, and in it, you can create records only with the "preventive" budget category. - The task list scenario is zero based, and you can create records only with the "planned" budget category. - The ad hoc (plan) scenario is zero based, and you can create records with the planned and unplanned budget categories.

Business Benefits

Driving down maintenance costs - Better data integrity than with spreadsheet-based budgeting - Access to your plan data from everywhere with a user-friendly front end (Web interfaces) - Ability to reflect changes in the near future - - Continuous planning with standardized, automated budget processes - - Support of planning as a company-wide effort, with a great number of managers and employees contributing - Analytical applications, in addition to use as a tool