GLOSSARY FOR SAP PLANT MAINTENANCE

GLOSSARY FOR SAP PLANT MAINTENANCE

Company code =

SAP term for legal entity for which a complete self-contained set of accounts can be drawn up for external statutory reporting

Plant=

In Logistics, a plant is an organizational unit for dividing an enterprise according to production, procurement, maintenance, and materials planning. A place where materials are produced, or goods and services are provided.

Maintenance Plant=

Maintenance plant is a plant in which the technical objects of the company are installed and where maintenance is done.

Maint. Planning Plant=

A plant in which maintenance tasks are planned and prepared. The planning responsibility for a maintenance plant is defined using a planning plant. Maintenance plant are assigned to planning plants. Planning is performed for the Maintenance plants in the planning plants.

Plant Section=

Plant section is subdivision of Maintenance Plant into different process / functional areas.

Planner Group=

Planner Group is a group of persons responsible for maintenance planning in a Planning plant.

Functional Location= 

The business object functional location is an organizational unit within Logistics, that structures the maintenance objects of a company according to functional, processrelated or spatial criteria. A functional location represents the place at which a maintenance task is to be performed.

Equipment=

An equipment is known as an individual object in the system that is maintained independently. Equipment can be installed at different functional locations. You can create an individual equipment in an organization based on the object-based structure of a technical system.

Work Center=

An organizational unit that defines where and when an operation must be performed. The work center has an available capacity. The activities performed at or by the work center are evaluated by charge rates, which are determined by cost centers and activity types. Work centers can be:

- Machines

- People

- Production lines

Task List =

It’s the set of operations to be performed for the maintenance of a technical object

Object Type=

You can assign each piece of equipment and each functional location to a technical

object type = 

This allows pieces of equipment that have the same use, for example, to be combined into groups. You can use this grouping for evaluating your master data or maintenance data.

Catalog Profile=

Catalog profile will group distinct characteristics of the notification which will cater

the needs of management to analyze the company assets & to ascertain the

decisions accordingly. Catalog profiles have sub class of code groups which will group

the codes as per their feature.