Overview – Introduction to Maintenance Resource Scheduling (43R)

As a maintenance planner, it is important to monitor and manage work center utilization effectively. Resource scheduling provides you with insights into the maintenance workload and available capacity for current and upcoming maintenance activities. You can use the resource scheduling apps to check current and forecasted work center utilization, build schedules, and determine required capacities before dispatching the scheduled work. Resource scheduling provides you with insights into your maintenance workload and available capacities for current and upcoming maintenance activities. Use the apps for resource scheduling to check current and forecast work center utilization, build schedules, and determine required capacities before dispatching the scheduled work.
With the resource scheduling apps you can:
Optimize planning and scheduling with integrated views of priorities, assets, and capacities:
Plan and schedule maintenance activities with real-time views of work center load, capacity, work situation, and existing documentation.
Schedule proactive, preventive, or condition-based maintenance tasks with synchronization of labor, material, equipment, and schedules to reduce maintenance costs.
Provide role-based access to maintenance planners and enable them to monitor important and time-sensitive work for better efficiency.
Analyze maintenance efficiency with easy access to cost, breakdown, location analysis, and other embedded analytics.
Execute resource scheduling with real-time visibility into maintenance resources and assets.
Business Benefits
The Key business benefits are:
Gain insights into current and forecast workloads
Identify due and overdue maintenance orders quickly and build an optimal schedule before dispatching maintenance order operations for execution
Optimize the use of maintenance resources
Control weekly maintenance workloads by adjusting the scope of your schedule and distribute the work evenly across your work centers.
Reduce asset downtime and increase productivity
Group and schedule maintenance orders by asset, consider work that requires planned downtime, and identify relationships between order operations
Key Process Flows
The key process flows of Introduction to Maintenance Resource Scheduling (43R) are:
Analyze maintenance workload and capacities
Simulate and schedule maintenance work order operations
Track if maintenance is executed as scheduled
Process Steps, Business Roles and Fiori Apps
The following table lists the SAP Fiori apps that are used business roles in the Maintenance Resource Scheduling (43R) process steps.
Process Step | Business Role | SAP Fiori App |
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Manage Schedule Order operations can be scheduled based on the priority/criticality of the work. Schedules can be created for a target week by selecting operations from multiple maintenance orders. You can refine the schedules based on the utilization forecast of the work centers for the week. | Maintenance Planner - Resource Scheduling | Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners (F2227) |
Assign Person Responsible to Order Operations You can use this app to assign a person responsible to operations. | Maintenance Planner - Resource Scheduling | Assign Maintenance Order Operations (F3423) |
Freeze Schedule When you are satisfied with the utilization forecast for the target week, you can dispatch the scheduled order operations and freeze the schedule. Freezing a schedule allows you to monitor schedule attainment and track schedule execution once the target week starts. | Maintenance Planner - Resource Scheduling | Manage Schedules (F3326) |