Exploring Premise and Device Location

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the purpose and usage of premises.

Premise and Device Location

Concept explaining how premises, such as apartments or factories, are defined and linked to utility services, billing, and ownership details, represented by buildings as icons.
  • You can allocate one or more utility installations to each premise. Since the premise is not division-dependent, it is possible to allocate installations for different divisions to the same premise.
  • Installations subdivide the premise by division.
  • A property owner can be assigned at the premise.
  • You can maintain the following information fields for each premise:
    • Street affixes allow you to maintain additional street name data for the connection object. In this way, you can enter alternate street names, for example.
    • The location details help the field service employees to identify a premise more easily.
Diagram illustrating key attributes of a premise, including location details, customizations, features, and field modifications, highlighting factors for efficient property management.
  • Premise type: Classification of the premise, for example, single-family home, apartment, garden shed.
  • The premise is linked to central address management via the address of connection object. You can enter additions to the connection object address in the fields Street supplement 1 and Street supplement 2 fields.
  • The fields in the premise display can be modified to meet individual requirements: SAP Fiori app. On Home page→User Profile icon→App Finder→SAP Menu→Search in SAP Menu→Customizing – Execute Project (enter)→SAP Utilities→Master Data→Premise→Define Field Selection for Premise.
Illustration showing different methods of assigning ownership or responsibility, highlighting three distinct pathways for allocation based on processes and automation levels.

You allocate owners in Customizing. In SAP S/4HANA Utilities, you can allocate owners to premises in one of three ways. These are:

  • Using the premise

    If you maintain owners via the premise, you can only use the Maintain Premise transaction. Historical maintenance is not possible in this case.

  • Without automatic move-in

    You can only do this using the Owner Allocation transaction. However, you can no longer allocate owners via the premise if you choose this option. The advantage of this method is that you can allocate owners historically via a key date.

  • With automatic move-in

    You can only do this using the Owner Allocation transaction. However, you can no longer allocate owners via the premise if you choose this option. The advantage of this method is that you can allocate owners historically via a key date. In addition, move-in is triggered automatically via owner allocation. This method is useful if the owner is always moved into a premise if it is empty, for example. Automatic owner move-in or move-out is performed by a workflow.

Illustration depicting a connection between property ownership and premises, emphasizing no historical records or automatic move-in processes within a structured system.
  • If you maintain owners via the premise, you can only use the Maintain Premise transaction. Historical maintenance is not possible in this case.
  • The owner assignment in the premise is the basic setting when the system is delivered.
Illustration conveying property ownership transitions, emphasizing historical data tracking, automatic move-in capabilities, and maintenance status within a hierarchical system.
  • You can define customer property and manage it historically. You can allocate connection objects, premises and individual installations as property. You can also allocate all the installations of one division or define other types of property.
  • However, you cannot maintain owners in the premise using this method.
  • Automatic move-in can take place for the owner during owner allocation. The automatic move-in is executed by a workflow. You can maintain the basic workflow data (such as the earliest start date) in Customizing: SAP Fiori App. On Home page→User Profile icon→App Finder→SAP Menu→Search in SAP Menu→Customizing – Execute Project (enter)→SAP Utilities→Customer Service→Process Execution→Owner Allocation→Define Type of Owner Allocation..
  • Standard workflows ISUACBMoveIn and ISUACBMveOut
Explanation of technical installations, emphasizing equipment setup, periodic maintenance, and its role in automation, monitoring, and outage management within specific divisions.
  • Division-based utility installation in a premise.
  • The technical installation is a piece of equipment from the Plant Maintenance (PM) component that is set up specifically for the utilities industry. The term covers all the installed devices in a building (for example, electric cables and meters) that belong to the same division. The technical installation is used in plant maintenance and customer service to create orders and notifications. However, only one technical installation is possible per division.
  • For example, technical installations include the following:
    • Storage heater with cable, fuse, and so on
    • Fuse box
    • Distributor box
    • Sockets
Illustration explaining device location for installations, emphasizing precise placement, cross-functionality, detailed descriptions, and relevance to plant maintenance systems through examples.
  • When you install a device in a technical location, you can specify attributes for the customer exit IEQM0001 (additional checks on equipment installation at technical location). This allows you to limit the number of devices installed at a device location.
  • A device location is not assigned to any division, and thus is valid for devices of all divisions.
  • The device location address is inherited from the connection object to which it is assigned. The device location address can be further described. For example, basement or first floor.
Conceptual diagram showing key aspects of device location: general data, physical location, notes to field service, and field modifications, emphasizing organized system management.
Illustration showing hierarchical structure linking a general location within a building to specific details, emphasizing organized communication of device location information.
  • The possible locations are recorded in the corresponding maintenance plant in Customizing. You can only use the locations specified in Customizing. Examples include:
    • First floor
    • Basement
    • Parking garage
  • Customizing path: SAP Fiori App. On Home page→User Profile icon→App Finder→SAP Menu→Search in SAP Menu→Customizing – Execute Project (enter)→Enterprise Structure→Definition→Logistics→General→Define Location.

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