Business Scenario
You are going to implement SAP S/4HANA Asset Management and therefore you need to configure the already existing logistic plants from an Asset Management perspective.
Plant Structure
The organizational levels are structured as follows:
Client:
The client is the highest-level element of all the organizational units. It corresponds to a corporate group with several subsidiaries. Within a client, the system always accesses the same database. The subsidiaries, with their own financial statements and balance sheets, are defined as company codes.
Controlling area:
From the Controlling perspective one or several company codes are assigned to a controlling area to have common Controlling/Management Accounting over several subsidiaries.
Company codes:
The subsidiaries, with their own financial statements and balance sheets, are defined as company codes.
Maintenance plant:
In Logistics, the plant is one of the most important organizational units. It usually represents a production unit of a company.
The plant at which the operational systems of a company are installed is called the maintenance plant.
Maintenance planning plant:
A maintenance planning plant is the organizational unit in which maintenance requirements are planned. These requirements can either come from your own plant or from another maintenance plant assigned to this maintenance planning plant.
If maintenance work is planned at this plant, the maintenance plant is also the maintenance planning plant (planning plant for short). Locations subdivide a maintenance plant according to location-based criteria, such as site, buildings, and coordinates. A maintenance plant can also be subdivided into plant sections based on responsibility for production. The person responsible for the plant section is the contact person who coordinates production and maintenance (the plant engineer).
Maintenance work centers:
The units of capacity in plant maintenance are managed as maintenance work centers. Maintenance work centers are assigned to the respective maintenance plant as workshops.
Maintenance planner groups:
The planners of a maintenance planning plant are defined as maintenance planner groups.
Organizational unit:
The organizational unit (org unit) is one of the building blocks in Human Resources (HR) to build up an organizational structure. An organizational unit can be assigned to a maintenance work center. This allows you to specify different teams both from a logistical and HR perspectives.
Personnel number:
The personnel number is the business object used in HR to describe an employee with all its different data.
Business partner:
The business partner in SAP S/4HANA is the mandatory approach to create master data such as persons, groups of persons, and organizations. Examples are customer, vendor, personnel number, and so on. Each personnel number has a mandatory business partner assigned.
SAP user:
To log on to an SAP system, every user needs an SAP user, which holds the different logon parameters, the roles combined with access rights, and so on. The SAP user is coupled with the personnel number (and the business partner). So, when a user logs on to an SAP S/4HANA system, all different perspectives and data views of this user are covered.
Cross-Plant Maintenance
Plant-specific planning:
maintenance plant = maintenance planning plant
In most organizational structures, one finds the scenario in which the maintenance requirements are planned in the same plant where the maintenance requirements occur. Additionally, the workshops are assigned to the same plant where the work needs to be carried out. The warehouse is also assigned to the same plant (for example, plant 1010).
Cross-plant planning:
Multiple maintenance plants are assigned to a planning plant. For example, in a plant (for example, plant 1020) are needs for maintenance because a technical system there requires maintenance (maintenance plant). All further functions (maintenance planning, order execution, and spare parts storage) are, however, the responsibility of another plant (plant 1010).
Other options:
Other options are also conceivable. The planning of a plant's maintenance measures (for example, plant 1030) and the spare parts procurement take place in another plant (plant 1010). However, the tasks are performed by workshops that are available locally.
