SAP S/4HANA offers an Add-On for resource scheduling: SAP S/4HANA Asset Management for Resource Scheduling (RSH). This Add-On requires a separate license.
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 forecasted work center utilization, build schedules, and determine required capacities before dispatching the scheduled work. Plan which people should carry out which maintenance operations, taking into account their availability and their function at the work center.
Fiori App Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners provides the following functions or Cards:
- Schedule order operations
- Change and visualize processing status
- Plan and dispatch order operations
- Cancel Dispatching of order operations
- Define work centers for which data are to be displayed
- Move operations to a new date or work center
- Navigate to order and technical objects
Work Center Utilization
In the Work Center Utilization app you can analyze the capacity situation for your work centers. Using the utilization chart, you can show utilization based on various attributes.
You can schedule, change and dispatch order operations and sub-operations. You can also cancel the dispatch.
To level work center utilization, you can change the work center for order operations and sub-operations. In addition, you can change the start date and time for order operations.
Maintenance Scheduling Board
The Maintenance Scheduling Board app visualizes graphically the maintenance orders, order operations, and sub-operations in your work centers.
In the table area, maintenance orders, order operations, and sub-operations are shown in their hierarchical structure, with the order at the top level and the operations and sub-operations at the second level.
A Gantt chart shows orders, operations, and sub-operations on a timeline. This allows you to quickly identify scheduling conflicts.
You can filter the orders, order operations, and suboperations as needed and show more detailed information for them.
Schedules
A schedule is a simulation that is only visible to the person who created it and to people with whom the schedule was shared. As a planner, you can make changes to a schedule until you or somebody else freezes it. Any schedules that have not been frozen before its start date are automatically deleted.
Depending on the schedule status, a schedule includes maintenance order operations with various processing statuses. You start by adding due operations to a schedule. The app then adds operations that have already been dispatched or are in process if they overlap with the schedule period and are in the same work center as the operations you added. These operations make up a work center's base load.
Maintenance Events and Revisions
In general, the terms revision and maintenance event both refer to a period of time during which several maintenance activities need to be planned and executed together on one or more technical objects. In some cases, it may be necessary to temporarily shut down a technical object so that service or maintenance work can be performed.
To facilitate the planning of the maintenance activities, you can create an object called a revision or maintenance event and, for example, assign maintenance orders to it.
The term Revision is used if you create and manage this object in SAP GUI.
Via transactions IWR1 (standard), OIOB (simplified) or WPS1 (WPS-controlled).
- The term Maintenance Event is used if you create and manage this object in the SAP Fiori app Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets.
When you create a maintenance event using the Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets app, you need to select a Maintenance Event Type, when you create a revision via SAP GUI you need to select a Revision Type.
Maintenance Event Types and Revision Types are defined in a common Customizing table. In Customizing both are referred to as Revision Types. The following revision types are available:
- WPS-Controlled (Maintenance Event Builder)
- Not WPS-Controlled
- Planning Bucket
- Planning Bucket with Administrative Order
Maintenance Events in Resource Scheduling and other Apps
Maintenance Events and Revisions are part of standard SAP S/4HANA - so they are available as additional fields (filters) in the apps of Resource Scheduling (RSH) as well as in a number of standard apps - and help to organize and structure your work load.
For example, the fields can be used in the following apps:
- Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners (RSH)
- Manage Work Center Utilization (RSH)
- Manage Maintenance Schedule for Assets (RSH)
- Maintenance Scheduling Board (RSH)
- Maintenance Planning Overview (standard S/4HANA)
- Find Maintenance Orders (standard S/4HANA)