ISSUE:-

1) User want to extract maintenance plan data with ref of quality equipment.
Ans:- first IH08 download equip for plant
Then IP24 extract all Mainte plan with ref of equip.
Then Table MPLA to extract strategy , scheduling period & all scheduling parameter with
ref of maintenance plan.
Then combine all data into one sheet.

What is status of order if lot is assign to order?

ILAS:- Means Inspection Lot Assigned

Residence Time 1 (Calendar Months)

Reorganizing an object (e.g. order, project) normally requires three steps:

1. Setting the delete flag (can be reset)

2. Setting the final deletion indicator (cannot be reset)
3. Reorganizing (writing the object to a sequential dataset and physically deleting it from the system)

Residence time 1 determines the time interval (in calendar months) that must elapse between setting the delete
flag (step 1) and setting the deletion indicator (step 2).

Residence Time 2 (Calendar Months)

Reorganizing an object (e.g. order, project) normally requires three steps:

1. Setting the delete flag (can be reset)

2. Setting the final deletion indicator (cannot be reset)
3. Reorganizing (writing the object to a sequential dataset and physically deleting it from the system)

Residence time 2 determines the time (in calendar months) that must elapse between setting the deletion
indicator (step 2) and reorganizing the object (step 3).
1)Implementation process step---define in detail

Phase 1: Project Preparation - The purpose of this phase is to provide initial planning and preparation for
your SAP project.

Phase 2: Business Blueprint - The purpose of this phase is to achieve a common understanding of how
the company intends to run its business within the SAP System. The result is the Business Blueprint, a
detailed documentation of the results gathered during requirements workshops. The Business Blueprint
document represents the business process requirements of the company. It is the agreed statement of
how the company intends to run its business within the SAP System.

Phase 3: Realization - The purpose of this phase is to implement all the business process requirements
based on the Business Blueprint. The system configuration methodology is provided in two work
packages: Baseline (major scope); and Final configuration (remaining scope).

Phase 4: Final Preparation - The purpose of this phase is to complete the final preparation (including
testing, end user training, system management and cutover activities) to finalize your readiness to go
live. The Final Preparation phase also serves to resolve all critical open issues. On successful completion
of this phase, you are ready to run your business in your live SAP System.

Phase 5: Go Live & Support - The purpose of this phase is to move from a project-oriented, pre-
production environment to live production operation.

What are the steps for effort estimation?

These estimates usually constitute activities viz.

Requirement gathering, Solution Design, Configuration, ABAP development, Functional Validation,

Regression Testing and all other actions leading to a successful User-Acceptance-Testing (UAT)

What is sequential master data of SAP PM?

2) Difference between Equipment & FL.

3) Where we configured activity type how we can assign multiple of activity type to which belong to one
WC to work order operation.

Ans:-

First create Activity type by KL01 ( exp-old is PMLAB)

Then change KP26 assign price to above activity type with ref to CC.

Then change work center by CR02

First change Standard key :- SAP1 for pop up 3 activity type

 SAP2 for pop up 6 activity type

Then assign multiple of activity type to work center.

Now we can assign multiple of activity type to order for different operation.
3) What role of MRP in SAP PM
As i u/s MRP is not run like for PM or PP or MM, it is run for Materials in the plant & any material
which allows MRP will be considered for MRP, Coming to PM you may stock your spares not on
individual requirement but say based on consumption(reorder point), consumables like grease & oil
can also be planned this way, then these materials will be considered in MRP, and when you create
an order and you have missing part, MRP would consider the requirement from order.

ZP:- reorder point+ reservation in order

PD:- reservation in order

ND:- no MRP

11) what are the criteria MRP count while run for maint order

MRP Type

MRP controller:- S10 (spare parts)

Reorder point

Avaibility check :- 01 (Daily requ) , 02 (Individual requ.)

GR processing time

Planned delivery time

Lot size

What is reorder point in MRP?

The reorder level (also known as the reorder point) is made up of the sum of the safety stock
plus the expected average material consumption within the replenishment lead time.
4) What is avaibility check & what are the config settings in SAP PM
Material Availability Check in Maintenance Order

Material Availability check in the maintenance order is one of the useful functionality provided by
SAP. When we plan materials in the maintenance order, you can either check the availability before
the order is released or the system can do it automatically when the order is released. Material
Planning is one of the important KPI’s for planning team.
Pre-requisites

1. Plant Maintenance Configuration

2. Material Master data Maintenance
Plant Maintenance Configuration
1. Define Checking Rules
Plant Maintenance and Customer Service – Maintenance and Service Processing – Maintenance
and Service Orders – Functions and Settings for Order Types – Availability Check for Material,
PRTs, and Capacities – Define Checking Rules

2. Define Scope of Check

Plant Maintenance and Customer Service – Maintenance and Service Processing – Maintenance
and Service Orders – Functions and Settings for Order Types – Availability Check for Material,
PRTs, and Capacities – Define Scope of Check
For Individual Requirements

Separate requirements will be generated for each order.

This document will deal only with Availability Check 02 (Individual Requirement)
3. Define Inspection Control
Plant Maintenance and Customer Service – Maintenance and Service Processing – Maintenance
and Service Orders – Functions and Settings for Order Types – Availability Check for Material,
PRTs, and Capacities – Define Inspection Control
This configuration needs to be done with a combination of Plant / Order type / Availability Check

Check availability during order creation

* Check material availability when saving order
* Assign the Checking rule created in Step 2
* Collect. Conversion is used to determine the action you want to do in case of Material not
available. This will not be relevant when then Order is in creation phase
Check availability during order release
If Status Check is used, an availability check does not have to run ever time an order is released. This
reduces the system load. (SAP help)

4. Define Change Documents, Collective Purchase Requisition, MRP relevance

This configuration plays a vital role on checking the Material Availability in SAP PM.

You need to make sure Res / Pur Req is set Immediately, else during Work Order Creation, Material
availability check will not work.
Material Master data Maintenance
Availability check needs to be maintain for the Material in MRP3 view.

Availability Check 02 is maintained for the Material.

Case 1 : Check availability during Order creation

Scenario 1: Before Saving the Work Order

A work order creation in progress, after entering the Material availability icon highlighted below will give
the pop-up “Non-Availability of Material See log”

System Status MSPT – Material Shortage will be updated.

Click the Log icon to see the messages

Click the Display log in Total to view all messages

Please make a note, this will not stop you on saving the Work Order in CRTD status.

Scenario 2: After the Work Order is saved

Material Availability was not checked manually

During creation System Status is set as MANC (Material Availability not checked)

After saving the Work Order

System Status MSPT (Material Shortage) is set automatically on save.

Work Order can be reviewed using System Status itself

Case 2 : Check availability during Order release

Scenario 1: Define Inspection Control – User decides on release if parts are missing

When the Order is created, material planning is done and saved. Upon clicking the release flag, system
gives below message

Based on the configuration, user have authority to bypass and release the order.

Click on Missing Parts List icon

Scenario 2: Define Inspection Control – No release if parts is missing

When the release flag is clicked, system pop-up below error message

In this configuration setting, you cannot release the work order, to check the log click Go to – Logs –
Release
5) What is difference between MD01 & MD02

Ans:-
MD01- it is used to run mrp for whole plant level without considering any material, MD01 is used for
running the MRP for specific plant or number of plants to maintain the scope of planning
MD02- it is used to run mrp for material level which contains multilevel BOM. And also use it for
perticular mrp areas also. ( just for one mat , single item , multi level ( will explode whole BOM for
particular mat )
MD03- it is used to run mrp for material level which contains single level BOM.

6) what is processing key in MRP?

Ans:-

1) NETCH:- Net Change in Total Horizon

NETCH is where the MRP planning run checks the planning file and executes for only those
materials with the net change indicator. This is used on your more frequent planning runs as
it only runs on planning file entries with the net change indicator, thus being a very efficient
planning run. Typically this is used as your nightly planning run so that it runs quickly to
afford other programs within your organization to also complete in off hours.

2) NETPL:- Net change for planning horizon

(NETPL) works the same way as the net change planning but it is limited to the planning
horizon. The planning horizon is configured at the plant level, or if you are using MRP
Groups, then it can be set there as well. The planning horizon is the number of days for
which MRP will consider requirements for planned replenishments. Therefore, this type of
planning run should execute faster than the net change for it is limited to those materials to
be planned within that planning horizon range. For any long cycle time products, this is not a
recommended setting.

3) NEUPL:- Regenerative planning

This is usually known as a “regen”, meaning a regeneration planning run. This is useful to
run periodically, weekly or monthly, so that all planned orders are replaced with a more up to
 date planning situation. Regeneration planning will ignore the net change indicators and run
against the entire planning file. One of the best reasons for this processing type is that it will
eliminate those planned orders that have “aged in place”. Aging in place is where planned
orders that had not had any further net change indicators being set after it had been planned.

7) how to trigger follow up notification action in SAP PM..pl provide example

8) what are the T code used for check PR in Work order & how we can check PR in work order.

Answer :- ME5A
ME5A --> using Dynamic Selection --> enter Release Strategy = Blank

For check open PR:- In SE16 table EBAN and with the field STATU you can check the open PRs.

4) what is purpose of user status in maintenance order.

T code:- OIBS

Apart from having System status, SAP has given the option of using User Statuses for all the
documents. User Status by name itself, it’s defined by user for having further more statuses
for the same document apart from existing System statuses.
For example, Once the Equipment is dismantled from Superior Object, the System status will
be set to Available (AVLB). But it doesn’t clarify whether the dismantled Equipment is in
working condition or in defect condition. Here, User status helps the End User to make the
appropriate statuses.

5) what is capacity planning in SAP PM

Capacity requirements planning supports you in detailed work scheduling for the individual
maintenance work centers (maintenance groups).
The capacities available to the work centers must be utilized as fully as possible in view of
the changing daily requirements. Therefore, capacity requirements planning can help you in
determining which work centers and individual persons are available, and help in assigning
them to orders and order operations. You can use this component to specify which work
centers or persons can or should complete which activities by which date.

CM25

5) How we can release maint order header & operation separately.

6) How we schedule operation In relationship functionality

In an order, a relationship describes the processing and temporal dependencies between two operations. For
example, it can specify that a particular operation can only start once another operation has been completed, or that
an operation cannot be completed before another operation has been completed. The operation becomes the
predecessor or the successor to another operation through the relationship.
 A relationship defines how two operations should be sequenced in terms of time.
In order to plan and execute extensive maintenance work efficiently, the sequence and dependencies between the
individual operations are very important. It is therefore important to relate the operations for an order to one another
in terms of time, in other words, to network them. You can do this using the networking functions and relationships.
You can network both the operations within a particular order and the operations from different orders with one
another.

Relationships are characterized by the following:

• Type
• Time interval between the operations
Relationship Types
The following relationship types are available:
Finish-Start Relationship
The end of one operation is linked to the start of the subsequent operation.

The operation "Install equipment" can only start once the operation "Repair equipment" has been completed.
The finish-start relationship with a time interval of zero is the standard case in Plant Maintenance.

Start-Start Relationship
The start of an operation is linked to the start of the subsequent operation.

The operation "Painting" can only start once the operation "Put up scaffolding" has started.
Finish-Finish Relationship
The end of an operation is linked to the end of the subsequent operation.
The operation "Take down scaffolding" can only be completed once the operation "Painting" has been completed.
Start-Finish Relationship
The start of one operation is linked to the end of the subsequent operation.

The operation "Put in process" can only be completed once the operation "Acceptance" has begun.
Overview of Relationship Types

Time Interval Between Relationships

The time interval is the time between two operations which are linked by a relationship.
 Time Interval Between Relationships
The time interval is the time between two operations which are linked by a relationship.

Example
Operation 0020 is linked to operation 0010 by a finish-start relationship with a time interval of two days. This means
that operation 0020 can only start two days after operation 0010 finishes.

You can enter the following types of time interval between linked operations:
• As positive or negative absolute values
You enter an absolute value, for example, 10 days. In the case of a finish-start relationship, this means that operation
0020 starts 10 days before the completion of operation 0010.
• As a percentage of the duration of the preceding or subsequent operation
You enter a percentage value, for example, 80 %. In the case of a start-finish relationship, where the preceding
operation 0010 has a duration of 10 days, the subsequent operation 0020 starts 8 days (= 80% of 10 days) after
operation 0010 has finished.
7) what is difference between forward & backward scheduling
Forward scheduling
When you set this indicator, the system schedules:
Orders forwards, based on the basic start date
Collective orders forwards, based on the specified outline start date

Backward scheduling
If you set this indicator the system schedules
orders backwards starting from the basic finish date
collective orders backwards starting from the framework finish date,

8) what is use of settlement profile

9) what is allocation structure & what is use of tick mark in group GL in AL

12) How maint order planned cost calculated

13) How to get personnel nub defaulted in IW41 screen.

Steps:-

1) Assign personnel id to Position & work center

PA30 & PPOCE

2) Enter order in iw32 & maintain operation duration

3) Select operation & go to internal tab

4) Then go to requirement assignment tab & maintain resource & work
5) Save order & open iw41 & enter capacity category & spilt no as given in above screen.

6) Now personnel nub get defaulted in confirmation screen.

14) What is CATS :- Cross application time sheet
The Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) can be used by employees or personal administrators to
track employee working times. Time data is recorded with information referring to orders and cost
centers, for example, and can be transferred to corresponding applications and components of the
SAP Business Suite.

CATS time recording creates a confirmation document (IW41) in the background.

The Cross-Application Time Sheet (CATS) is a cross-application tool for recording working times and tasks. It
enables you to control all business processes concerning your employees’ tasks – from paying the employees,
through monitoring the progress of a project, to creating invoices.

CATS can be integrated with HR, Financial Accounting, Project System, Plant Maintenance, Service
Management, Material Management and Product Planning modules.
CATS are very much feasible with PS and activity types and you can transfer costs against activities,
orders, networking elements and WBS elements. –Understandable

You decided to Use CATS for time confirmation, you should have to maintain HR master data to
have personnel number for each employee and personnel number has to be assigned to maint work
center. Then you have to perform the CATS transactions. CAT2,CAPS,CAT9. Here CAT9 will be
transferring the timesheets to PM to reflect the labour cost in the work order. HR master data will
have all the costing parameters on it . To maintain all the parameters, use PA30.

We have maintained all personnel no of the employess working under a particular Maint.Work center
in HRMS tab. Employee master data for all Infotypes are maintained in Personnel Management in
HR module. So wen the Employee enters Time details of his working hours per day, he has to
mention the maintenance order Or it is like a standing order on the time sheet per line item. Wen
transfer of working hours will be done on a particular order the entire cost will be reflected in Cost
tab page. Since me have maintained different Activity type/Activity price per employee I am confused
about the flow of cost...

T Codes in CATS
Following are important transactions in CATS
CAC1 -- MAINTAIN PROFILE
CAC2-- FIELD SELECTION
CAT2--MAINTAIN TIME SHEET
CAT3--DISPLAY TIME SHEET
CATS_DA-- DISPLAY WORKING TIMES
CAT8--DOCUMENT DISPLAY
CATS_APPR_LITE -- APPROVE WORKING TIMES
CAT5---TRANSFER TO PS
CAT6--TRANSFER TO TIME MGT
CAT7---- TRANSFER TO CONTROLLING
CAT9

16) is there final issue tick in component tab

No

17) what are the field present in component tab of maint order

Component code, description, Qty, UM, Special stock, Item category, Sloc, oper/activity nub, batch,
recipient, Unloading point, Bulk material (check box), Backflush(check box), Res/PR drop down.

18) what are the other data need to be maintain in work center---like activity type

Work center category :-005 for PM, 001 for PP

Standard value key :- SAP0

Usage:- 004 –only maintenance task lists

Control key :- PM01

Cost center

19) how the operation cost calculate in work order

20) How the price calculates in operation base on Calculation key in maint order
21) user release order & manager get approve order then after engineer can assign component in
order—how does it achieve this functionality.

22) if user was getting dump while executing transaction how do you solved it as functional
consultant.:- ST22

23) user status how it works

24) do you work on variant configuration.

25) what is standard notification type

• Maintenance Requests (M1)

• Malfunction Reports (M2)
• Activity Reports (M3)

26) what is standard order type

PM01:- General MO

PM02 Preventive MO

PM03 Breakdown MO

PM04 Refurbishment MO

PM05 Calibration MO

PM06 Capital Investment order

SM01 Service order

SM02 Service order with revenues

SM03 Repair service

28) what are the different PM reports: -

MCI2- MANUFACTURER ANALYSIS - With this report you can view the maintenance orders
created against the manufacturer( that means maintenance orders list against the equipments which
procured from manufaturer.)
MCI3 - LOCATION ANALYSIS - with this report you can view the no of orders and notifications and
cost for those orders against the functional location.
MCI4 - PLANNER GROUP ANALYSIS - With this report you can view the no of orders and
notifications and cost against the planner group.
MCI5 - DAMAGE ANALYSIS FOR INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS.
With this report you can view no of parts damaged and activities done to rectify the task for particular
period.
MCI6 - OBJECT STATISTICS - With this report you can view the equipments procured from vendor
in particular year and month.and the value of that equipment.
MCI7 - BREAK DOWN ANALYSIS - MTTR-Mean time to repair and MTBF-Mean time between
failure.
MCI8 - COST ANALYSIS - With this report you can view the cost spent on type of maintenance
orders for particular period.

MTTR-Mean time to repair:-

The average duration of a machine breakdown, MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), is

calculated from the individual history of a piece of equipment. This gives us the
following formula:

The key figure MTTR is calculated in hours.

First breakdown 10 hours

Second breakdown 05 hours
Number of breakdowns 02

MTTR = 10 + 5 / 2 = 7.5 hours

MTBR- Mean time between Repair /Average Time Between Repair

the average duration between two machine breakdowns, MTBR for short (Average Time
between Repair), is calculated from the individual history of the equipment. This gives
the following formula:

The key figure MTBR is calculated in hours.

The following example shows how the MTBR is calculated:

Acquisition date of pump A 01/01/94

First breakdown 01/10/94

Downtime 10 hours

Second breakdown 01/20/94

Downtime 5 hours

Number of breakdowns 2

MTBR = (19 * 24 - 10) / 2 or X + Y (St) / 2

= (456 - 10) / 2 or (216 + 240 - 10) / 2

= 223 hours

As per the definitions of MTTR and MTBR, for effective Equipment’s MTTR needs to be less
and MTBR needs to be more

What are the config settings to get PMIS report

Technical Objects Master Data

 1. Maintain Start date in Equipment / Functional location master

Notification

1. Maintain the Malfunction Start date & time, Malfunction End Date & time in Notification
2. Maintain the Breakdown tick mark in notification
MTBF = Mean Time Between Failures
To calculate MTBF, use this formula:
MTBF = Total uptime for a period of time / number of stops during the same period
In other words, MTBF is the average time between downtime periods. For example, if during a week
of production you have 30 hours of uptime and 10 stops then the MTBF would be 30 / 10 = 3 hours.

MTBF = MTTR + MTBR

6) what is diff between breakdown & unplanned maintenance

Corrective maintenance When you observe that breakdown was due to some specific issue e.g.
Engine motor damage. And you observe that whole Equipment may stop again due to engine motor.
So permanent fix is to replace engine motor. Hence you schedule a work order to replace this
engine motor. Such kind of maintenance is termed as Corrective maintenance.( It starts with
notification OR you can directly create an order)

1) Difference between breakdown & corrective maintenance ?

Ans- Breakdown means it has hamper the production. The production has been delayed or stopped due to the some
kind of defect in the equipment while corrective never effect the production. suppose you have 3 sets of pump but for
production 2 pumps are always running, one of the pump got some kind of malfunction in this case other one will be
started and the malfunction will be corrected so here no effect on the prodcution.

2) what are the steps of process or workflow of corrective maintenance?

Ans- First a notification will be created either by operation deptt. or maintennace deptt. Malfunction time will be
mentioned in the notification after then maintenance team will inspect that and will create order.After resolving the
issue malfunction end time will be mentioned.

What is difference between Down time & Breakdown time?

Ans:- Down Time ==> This could be either from Shut down for Preventive or Planned maintenance
or from Breakdown Maintenance
Breakdown Time ==> This would be because of Breakdown Maintenance as per the name itself.

ANs:- In industries there are generally two categories of downtimes during maintennace of an
equipment.
1. Equipment Downtime for repairs
2. Production downtime due to the equipment repair.
Generally the category 2 is called Production DELAY.
For ex. if during a breakdown it took 2hrs for repair, due to which production loss was there for
30mts. (Due to equipment changeover etc) Here the Equipment Downtime is 2hrs. But the
production delay is 30 mts.

7) Where is cost settle in order while doing settlement ?

Ans:- To cost center which we maintain in equipment master data

4) what is use of breakdown indictor in maint order

Ans:-Indicator that informs you when a machine has broken down.

5) what is diff between notification & Order

6) what is user exit & bapi , Baddi

7) Whta is type of user exit

8) what is measuring point--& about counter 1) counter 2) General use

1) Counter:- A means with which you can represent object wear, consumption, or reduction of a working
supply.

Counters can run forwards, the counter readings increase, or backwards, counter readings decrease.

Counters are represented in the system as a form of measuring point.

2) General use/Measuring point:- Which used for both reading increase or decrease in both direction at
time.
9) what is configuration required to implement maint plan

ANS:-

Basic settings

1) Maintain Authorizations for Planning

2) Define Plant Sections
3) Define Maintenance Planner Groups
4) Define ABC Indicators

Maintenance plan

1) Maint plan category

2) Nub range for maint plan

3) Nub range for maint items

4) Sort fields for maint plan

5) Task list

6) Define Field Selection for Maintenance Plan

7) Define Field Selection for Operation Data

8) Set List Editing

9) Preventive maint order type

10) Preventive maint notification

11) Maintenance strategy

12) Authorization Group

12) Work Centers

Define Task List Usage Keys

Maintain Control Keys
Configure Screen Sequence for Work Center
Maintain Task List Status:- 4 Release (general)
Define Task List Usage:- 4 for PM
Configure Planner Group
Define Number Ranges for General Maintenance Task Lists
Define Number Ranges for Equipment Task Lists
Define Number Ranges for Task Lists for Functional Locations
Define Profiles with Default Values
Define Presetting for Free Assignment of Material
Define Field Selection
Presetting for List Display of Multi-Level Task Lists

10) can we change equ & FL category after creation of master data

Yes...by IE02 & IL02---Change category

11) how to control notifiction technicle data while closing it

12) WCM

13) Can we extend the length of FL more than 30./ Alternative labelling in detail with configuration.

By alternate labelling

SAP alternative labeling of functional locations is used when a client wants to use a legacy
naming convention along with a new SAP naming convention. That means you can assign
multiple labels to the same SAP functional location. The most used label is defined as
primary label and all other as secondary labels.

In simple word:-
Alternative labelling offers you the possibility to have multiple labelling systems so a functional
location can be known by different names by different parts of your organization. If you have a need
for this then it would be useful otherwise probably not.

14) shutdown maintenance ---Integration with PS

ANS:- OIOB--Shutdown maint, revision

15) What is diff between general BOM & Equipment BOM

Materail BOM: A bill of material that you create for a material is known as a material BOM. Material
BOMs are mainly used to represent the structure of products manufactured within your company

Equipment BOM: The system also allows you to maintain BOMs for equipment (technical objects for
plant maintenance). Equipment BOMs are used to describe the structure of equipment and to assign
spare parts to equipment for maintenance purposes.

Since these BOMs are linked to equipment, they are known as equipment BOMs

16) What type of maintenance planning user to configure planning plant & Maint plant-

which we should suggest as consultant.

1. Centralized Planning:- Centralized planning is where maintenance planning of all the plants is carried
out in one plant.--One planning plant to many maint plant

2. Localized Planning:-Localized planning is where maintenance planning of all the plants is carried out in
individual plant. one to one Planing plnt to maint plant

3. Partially Centralized Planning:-Partially centralized planning is where maintenance planning of few

plants is carried out in one plant and for few plants they have individual planning. One to one & One to
many maint Plant & planning plant.

18) Boiler should be maintain as equipment or FL.----This should be maintain as FL

19) PM Standard Organization structure

Ans:-

General Organization units in logistic

Client-------Plant-----------Company code

Location -based organization units

Maintenance plant----------Location for exp:- Buliding ,site

----------Plant section exp:- Production are, plant engineer

Planning -based organization units

Planning plant-------------Maint planner gruop exp:- foreman, work schduling

Planning plant-------------Maint work center exp:- mechanics

20) do you about root cause analsis in sap--IW69 to check RCA

21) Shutdown maint.

22) how to installed equipment to FL.

23)

The program checks for the following requirements before setting the deletion flag on an order

? Any open purchase requisitions or purchase orders for the order must be deleted first.

? The order must have been settled and the actual costs for the order must be set to zero.
? The order status must be set to “CLSD”.

? Commitments pertaining to the order must be deleted.

? Goods movement data pertaining to the must be processed.

1) What is SAP DMS? how it works?

2) What is differnce between control key PM02 & PM03

ANS:- PM02 :- The process flow is then PR->PO->GR->IR

Its like total maintenance given to vendor. Generally, vendor will do the operation by changing the
components on their own. Company will not provide any components to vendor.

PM03 :- The process flow is then PR->PO->SES->IR

Its like hiring employee for rent & paying the amount based on his work. Here service masters will be
created & the same will be assigned to person. He will update the service entry sheet, which will be
approved by internal manager. Based on service entry sheet, payment will be done.

What is floc and equipment...explain logically

ANs:-

FL:- SAP describes a functional location as a physical location, where multiple number of equipment are
installed, and used for a specific product(like water pump) or specific operation(like milling).
Equipment:- A piece of equipment is an individual object that is to be maintained independently. Each
piece of equipment is managed independently in the system

What is Notifiction:-

ANS:- Maintenance notification is used to describe the condition of a technical object or to report a
malfunction of the technical object and to request the damage to be repaired.

Preventive Maintenance end to end cycle and difference key difference all maintenance plan

Refurbishment configuration and end to end cycle

Pre requisites:-

• A material master record must be created in the system for the repairable spare part
• Split Valuation is activated bifurcation of repairable spare part based on its state / condition
• Unique identification is only possible if the individual pieces of material have been serialized
• activated the business function Refurbishment and Subcontracting (LOG_EAM_ROTSUB),
Refurbishment and Subcontracting 2 (LOG_EAM_ROTSUB_2) and Serial Numbers in
Purchasing (LOG_MM_SERNO)

T code for refurbishment order type:- IW81

How we identify that PM04 order is refurbishment type order type?

There in radioactive button need to be active as indictor of order type.

Config steps

1) Configuration for Split Valuation

2) Configuration for Serialization
3) Configuration for Material Provision Indicators
4) Serial nub profile assignment to Material master
5) Valuation category M in material master
6) Extending test material to all three valuation type. Like:- New, defective referished..
7) Refurbishment order type config

Process:-

• Step 1: Receipt of Defective Material through MIGO :- Stock overview – visibility of the
material with its state – DEFECTIVE (better visibility)

• Step 2: Create Purchase Requisition for Subcontracting for the requirement of the
REFURBISHED material & selecting the Item Category as “L”

• Step 3: Next Purchase order is created referencing the purchase requisition

• Step 4: Once the PO is released to the Vendor, Warehouse can issue the components
through MIGO – Transfer Posting with reference to the Purchase Order; Alternatively the
Transaction – ADSUBCON can also be used instead
• Step 5: Once the refurbishment is completed by the Subcontracting Vendor, the
REFURBISHED material will be received by Warehouse, for which they can perform Goods
Receipt with reference to the Purchase Order

• Step 6: After the quality Inspection lot has been cleared, the material can be Issued against
reservation to Maintenance / User department

• Step 7: Return to Warehouse from Maintenance / User department – after the issued
material’s usability ends – so that it can again be checked & send for External
Refurbishment (This needs to be done in 2 steps)

• Step 7a: Currently we can see that the Serial number is having the Master batch as
REFURBISHED, based on the last movement done at the time of Goods Issue (The Stock
Batch is empty, as this Serial number is issued & is not in Warehouse)

• Step 7b: Now the stock can be taken and posted as a Return to Warehouse item using
MIGO via Movement Type 262 & can be posted after entering the Serial number details.

• What is t code to be user for refurbishment process.?

• IW81

Which tab we maintain serial nub profile in material master.

Tab:- Plant data/stor.2

Which tab we define valuation class & price control in material master.

Accounting 1 tab.

Configuration step of valuation category.

T code:- OMWC

Click on Global Types

Then click on Global categories

Then above screen click on Types→ Cat.

Then assign the same category to Material master
 What would be status of refurbishment order after GR?

DLV-Delivered

After GR Refurbishment order will auto techo by system

Process of refurbishment without external vendor: -

1. Define split valuation type

2. Create refurbishment order
3. Release and execute order
4. Withdrawal of repairable spares to be refurbished from the warehouse
5. Return of refurbished repairable spares to the warehouse
6. Order technical completion
7. Order settlement
8. Order business completion

shutdown maintenance example

brief about inventory and material management in terms of plant maintenance, also differentiate
valuated and non-valuated material

Non valuated material:-

Non valuated means the materials will have the price to procure but in our valuation area we are not
considering the value.That means when we issue this material to some costcentre we are not
transfering this material cost to that costcentre.these are generally of low value items like
Bolts,nuts,washers or cotton waste.

Valuated material:-

Material valuation helps to determine the price of material and for which general
ledger account it needs to be posted in financial accounting.
how will you plan which material will be in stock and which not to be??

who will configure material parts like valuated and non-valuated material

what is the basic difference between valuated and non-valuated material ?

what is use of equipment BOM?

Equipment BOM is used to develop the structure of the equipment. It gives an idea about what are
the spares are required for the equipment, Which are the spares are stock & whicha are non
stockable.
Also BOM is used in planning phase for equipment Preventive maintenance to assign spares in task
list.
BOM is nothing but the spare wise division of the equipment . The main functionality of BOM is to
get the list of spare parts at the time of creation of maintenance order so that you can save your
extra time for searching the proper spare part and its required quant. .
Also we can use Assembly .the difference between assembly and BOM is that for Assembly we don
not maintain stock .they are mainly used to represent the equipment graphically .

What is cutover activity

Cutover data includes data on financial and materials balances that SAP must carry forward,
and also how to handle open transactions from the legacy system. Open transactions are those
business transactions that are still under process when the company switches from the legacy
system to the SAP system.
Cutover Activities
Communication to Vendor, Customer and Excise etc
User Training by Core Team
Cost Roll ups and Validations - Test
Upload of Master Data in Sequence on Test
Start entry of Open Sales Orders, Quotation, Enquiries, Purchase Orders in Prod
Stock Taking Activity at Plant
Stock Upload with SAP Material Code, Qty, Value and Storage Location as on Go-Live Date
Enter Cash Balances as of Go-Live Dates
Enter Excise balances as of Go-Live Dates with monthly duty payment for March
Configure Cut off Excise Number Range (Excise Invoice, RG registers) as on Go-Live Dates
Back up of Loaded Production Server
Go Live
Availability of all balances
FI Balance uploads (For both ledgers/ subledgers/ assets/ customers/ vendors)

What is SAP PM PP integration? (in location tab PP WC & in Organization tab PM WC)
This can be achieved like after creating the Work Center and equipment you have to assign the work
center to the equipment in IE01/IE02 under location tab then while creating the maintenance order
for that particular equipment for particular period system will block the capacity of work center for
that period of maintenance order also check the setting for PP order type.

Maintain resource in location tab while creating equipment by IE01. Also you need to ensure system
condition setting (Configuration part)at SPRO>Plant Maintenance and customer
service>Maintenance and service orders>General Data>Create system conditions or operating
conditions.
Also while creating maintenance order PM person should ensure the system condition option at
operation in maintenance order. After this when user will create the production order for this work
center system will show the message of work center unavailability.

What is type of cost configuration in PM & what is cost element?

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/04/18/sap-eam-fico-integration

What is construction type tab in equipment master data?

Ans:- If you have 10 nos of similar kind of equipment then create one material bom & assign same bom
to each equipment master in construction type tab.

Create two material for the same motor, one virtual material of material type IBAU (Maintenance
assembly) & other one actual material of material type ERSA (Spare parts). Create Material BOM for
virtual material (IBAU) & assign actaul material (ERSA) in that BOM. Assign virtual material (IBAU) in the
construction type field. This way you can select actual material (ERSA) motor from BOM.

For example if you have material 'Computers' and you have equipments PC-001, PC-002 etc for this
'Computers', create a material BOM for 'Computers'. This material BOM will get populated in the
construction type field of the equipments PC-001, PC-002 etc.

I am not getting planned cost for a material or external service for PM Order, Cost only updated in
actual cost when i issue the material or consume the external services.?
15) Logic behind the how the planned cost is calculated

ANS:-Have u maintained activity type(KL01) and activity pricing(KP26) for labor costs..Please check and
check whether you have assigned the costing variant for planned and actual cost for the combination of
plant and order type in transaction code OIOF
Please follow the following path to Check the costing variants assignment to Order types.
SPRO
> Plant Maintenance and Customer Service-----> Costing Data for Maintenance and Service Orders
Follow the following steps

1. Maintain Costing Variants

2. Define Valuation Variants
3. Assign Costing Parameters and Results Analysis Keys
Equipment BOM display

Ans:-We can search Equipment BOM By table EQST

Is it fine we are not enter cost element in allocation structure

Dismentle of material form equipment

What type of document type you have created while implementation.

Different between PM & QM task list

For PM:- Its having three different type of TL 1) Equipment TL-IA01 2) FL TL-IA11 3) General TL- IA05

If we are using TL in calibration, we use inspection point 300 for equp & 310 for FL

TL Usage is :-4 Plant maintenance

For QM:- which is called as inspection plan & for calibration process we put inspection point as 300 &
310.

We assign MIC in QM Task list

Measuring point table

Ans:- IMPTT

Time based & performance based strategy, can we create both in single strategy.

Yes, in Cycle set by IP11z

Counter Plan and Strategy Plan in a single maintenance Plan

You can use two cycles in the counter plan.
For your case, create a plan with two maintenance Items.
Maintenance Item 1: 3 Mon or 300 Hr (Cycle set sequence : 1 for both)
Maintenance Item 2: 6 Mon (Cycle set sequence :2)
Please find the below screenshots:
Item 1 & 2 respectively:
Do not give cycle set at the start of the IP43 transaction.Keep it blank and key in the cycles manually
as shown above.
Process of above steps:-

1. Create Cycle sets based on your requirement

1. 300hr / 3 mon
2. 1000hr / 6 mon
2. Create a Multiple Counter plan (You need two mainteance item with same equipment)
3. First Item should be assigned to Cycle Set 1
Second item should be assigned to Cycle Set 2
4. Set the plan parameters
5. Schedule the plan

We can maintain only one cycle set in IP11z but user want to set multiple of cycle set sequence in
counter base planning in IP11z.

We have to activate below function to achieve above multiple cycle set sequence as shown in above
topic functionality in multiple counter strategy which created by IP11z.

Plant Maintenance and Customer Service - Maintenance Plans, Work Centers, Task Lists and PRTs -
Maintenance Plans - Configure Special Functions for Maintenance Planning

Use of SAP PM

Differences in ECC and S/4 HANA

Reason for different values in cost in PMIS and IW38 reports

Overall Efficiency of Machine

Conventional and Activated Methodology stages of Implementation

Steps for measuring performance of a machine

Which price gets updated after GRN (IW8W) in refurbishment orders

Change Prices in material master depends on price control as well (Standard or moving average).
Standard means it is fixed price whereas moving average price changes with each goods receipt or
change in valuation transaction e.g. material transfer from C1 to C2 etc.

What if inspection point 300 not used in Task list in case of Calibration
Ans:- Inspection lot was not being generate

In case of centralized planning, in which plant inventory needs to be maintained (maintenance plant
or planning plant)
Ans:- Planning Plant

Different PR for different line items in maintenance order

When the check button for "Collective PR" is checked in Then It will Create the Single PR For
Number Of Non Stock Item.
For External service procured and non stock material within same work order, system genearte Two
seperate PR for service and seperate for materials when you set The check Button "Collective PR"
As Unmarked.
You can Create the Separate PR for Each operation's Companenent when you set The check Button
"Collective PR" As Unmarked.

If you mark the indicator for collective Req, only one PR is generated on the header level against
one maint order,
All procurement related to Non-Stock materials, services will be procured with a single PR
irrespective of the services or non-stock materials, irrespective of the operation line items etc....
If you dont set the indicator, then for every single item procured (non stock material) or service ,
system will generate a single PR for each single material or each single service hired...No of
materials, will equal no of PR's...
Eg: If 3 non stock items mentioned in Componenets and 2 external services in operations tab page
then a total of 3+2=5 individual PR's will be generated.

Different service/material PR document types from same maintenance order

What is follow up actions how to use it using notifications

Where to assign service contract in PM master

How to restrict customer equipment to get serviced

Where to assign counters in Strategy maintenance plan

T code: - IP42, Counter would be used only for performance based cycle strategy.

We assign counter in Maintenance plan cycle Tab of plan.

Can call Horizon with shift factors in multiple counter plans be used?
Releasing PO item wise

Different PR's for operations and components in maintenance order with different document types

Overhead cost calculations in maintenance orders

Overhead costs includes all utilities costs or indirect costs. Say when you do maintenance, you may
consume some electricity, water, or other items. These details can't be captured in PM order.
So Costing sheet will be defined to calculate the Overhead costs. Generally, it will be some
percentage of total cost incurred.
This costing sheet definition & assignment will be done in configuration by CO consultant.
PM & CS - > Maintenance Service Order - > Functions for orders - > Cost settings for Orders ->
Costing Sheets .
Under this you will find the settings . Basically Costing sheets are assigned at plant level so
whenever we create maintenance order this costing sheet gets copied to our maintenance order .
You can check the costing sheet attached to you order by clicking on "Control" tab in maintenance
order .
GRN without PO reference

Where to get table which is having user status with notification number

Where is service contract assigned to an equipment

Is it possible to generate a service order without running IP transaction through maintenance plans

Goods Issue against Refurbishment Order

How to create PM Position & assign to work center & creation of personnel id which should be reflect
under WC & user can assign it to WO.

T code:- PPCOE

Enter

Select line item & click on Create button.

Select line item Incorporates & say ok

Now we will enter new position over here which need to be created.
Save.

Now we will assing the same position to WC.

CR02

Enter Plant & WC----Capacities -----double click on person----click oh HRMS tab (display in header line)

-----------select line item position then click on create new

Enter position nub over here
Click on adopt button.

Now we will create personnel id by PA30

Now we will assign the same personnel id to above position.

T code :- PPCOE

Search personnel nub by person tab given in left side of screen with collective search help.

Personnel nub will display & select line iteam & right click
Select assign

Say ok
Select desire positon & say ok.

Position is aasign to personnel id.

Same will also reflect in WC