This must-have guide teaches you how to make the most of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). Learn how to use SAP from a maintenance perspective, and how to align SAP PM functions with your own workflow. In addition, discover the power of SAP PM and how to use it with your own best practices. The authors break plant maintenance down into three key areas: building best practices with the right people, making sure the SAP configuration matches the company_s best practices, and measuring SAP PM success. The book also provides explanations of the key obstacles to a successful plant maintenance implementation and presents solutions for each. In addition, it explores topics such as organisational preparation and focus, common configuration and implementation issues, and the information systems of plant maintenance. Throughout this comprehensive reference book, you_ll find useful, real-world examples that demonstrate the topics at hand. This is the one resource you need to understand how to approach SAP PM according to your own maintenance best practices.

Whether you know it as plant maintenance or asset management, this is the only guide you need to set it up in SAP S/4HANA! Start by planning your plant maintenance implementation, and then jump into configuring the organizational structure and system-wide functions. Use step-by-step instructions to set up your technical systems, from your equipment and fleet to your materials and assemblies. If you're looking to configure breakdown maintenance, corrective maintenance, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, or all four, this is the book for you! Highlights include: 1) Organizational structures 2) Notifications 3) Work orders 4) Equipment management 5) Preventive maintenance 6) Predictive maintenance 7) Breakdown maintenance 8) Corrective maintenance 9) SAP Fiori launchpad 10) Project plan

Undertaking an SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation, upgrade, or optimization project? Bring your plant maintenance system to life with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to configure EAM to support planning, execution, and settlement processes for plant maintenance measures. Get step-by-step instructions to align order processing, calibration, and refurbishment to customer-specific requirements, and learn how to avoid common obstacles.

"Learn how to successfully structure your technical systems and business processes in plant maintenance using SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). You'll learn the ins and outs of plant maintenance with SAP, including essential customization settings and processes - from refurbishment to condition-based maintenance. This updated edition is based on SAP ERP 6.0, and includes expanded information on subcontracting, inspection rounds, easy document management, and much more. " --rear cover.

Plant maintenance with SAP Enterprise Asset Management (SAP EAM) is more than just a routine checkup. Use this must-have guide to structure your functional locations, capture shift notes and shift reports, and much more. Dive into the technical underpinning of SAP PM, from material and plant maintenance assemblies to linear asset management. Discover best practices and real-world tips make to your SAP PM job easier. a. Best Practices for Your Day-to-Day Duties Harness the power of SAP EAM with real-world best practices and strategies. Discover critical SAP EAM functionality like shift notes, shift reports, and preventative maintenance. b. Specialized Functionality and Framework Master SAP EAM business processes, from planned repairs and refurbishment, to subcontracting, and pool asset management. Map and implement these processes to your specialized requirements with detailed guides to optimize SAP PM daily workload. c. Under-the-Hood Insight Explore technologies both old and new; see how SAP Work Manager, SAP Rounds Manager, SAP Business Client, and SAP HANA can impact your day-to-day with SAP PM.

Learn how to configure, implement, enhance, and customize SAP OEE to address manufacturing performance management. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE will show you how to connect your business processes with your plant systems and how to integrate SAP OEE with ERP through standard workflows and shop floor systems for automated data collection. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE is a must-have comprehensive guide to implementing SAP OEE. It will ensure that SAP consultants and users understand how SAP OEE can offer solutions for manufacturing performance management in process industries. With this book in hand, managing shop floor execution effectively will become easier than ever. Authors Dipankar Saha and Mahalakshmi Symsunder, both SAP manufacturing solution experts, and Sumanta Chakraborty, product owner of SAP OEE, will explain execution and processing related concepts, manual and automatic data collection through the OEE Worker UI, and how to enhance and customize interfaces and dashboards for your specific purposes. You’ll learn how to capture and categorize production and loss data and use it effectively for root-cause analysis. In addition, this book will show you: Various down-time handling scenarios. How to monitor, calculate, and define standard as well as industry-specific KPIs. How to carry out standard operational analytics for continuous improvement on the shop floor, at local plant level using MII and SAP Lumira, and also global consolidated analytics at corporation level using SAP HANA. Steps to benchmark manufacturing performance to compare similar manufacturing plants’ performance, leading to a more efficient and effective shop floor. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE will provide you with in-depth coverage of SAP OEE and how to effectively leverage its features. This will allow you to efficiently manage the manufacturing process and to enhance the shop floor’s overall performance, making you the sought-after SAP OEE expert in the organization. What You Will Learn Configure your ERP OEE add-on to build your plant and global hierarchy and relevant master data and KPIs Use the SAP OEE standard integration (SAP OEEINT) to integrate your ECC and OEE system to establish bi-directional integration between the enterprise and the shop floor Enable your shop floor operator on the OEE Worker UI to handle shop floor production execution Use SAP OEE as a tool for measuring manufacturing performance Enhance and customize SAP OEE to suit your specific requirements Create local plant-based reporting using SAP Lumira and MII Use standard SAP OEE HANA analytics Who This Book Is For SAP MII, ME, and OEE consultants and users who will implement and use the solution.

More than ever before, corporations must maintain sophisticated cash management systems that enable them to optimize both their investments and their daily cash "turns." SAP customers are particularly well-positioned to take advantage of the myriad cash management products offered in the SAP ERP Financials, Treasury and Risk Management, and FSCM components, but the real-world aspects of maximizing the existing solutions can be hard to understand, navigate, and implement without experienced, practical guidance. This book provides an overview of the functionality for all key cash management components, including best practices, real-world business scenarios, and key configuration and master data information. It explains how all the components can be integrated, and how both the individual components and the integrated solution can be maximized for optimal performance. Topics covered include SAP ERP Cash Management, Electronic Banking, Liquidity Planner, In-House Cash, Bank Communications Management, and integration with SAP ERP Financials and other components. The book is not meant to be a primer on each of the individual components, but an advanced guide to maximizing all the aspects of cash management available in SAP ERP.