AMC Process in Plant Maintenance: Kalyan Chakravarthi
AMC Process in Plant Maintenance: Kalyan Chakravarthi
Kalyan Chakravarthi
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PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)
Enterprise Asset Management
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Purpose: – In any SAP Plant Maintenance implementation, customer will ask about how to handle the
Annual Maintenance Contract Process (AMC Process) in SAP. People might follow different procedures,
here I have documented one process and this might be useful for the freshers.
AMC Process for Preventive Maintenance :
1. Create Service Master.
2. Create Outline Agreement
3. Create General Maintenance Task list
4. Create Maintenance Plan
5. Schedule Maintenance Plan
6. Release Maintenance Order
7. Create Purchase Order against the Purchase Requisition
8. Create Service Entry sheet against the Purchase Order
9. Perform TECO for the Maintenance Order
Step 1:- Create Service Master by using the transaction code AC01.
Step 2:- Create Outline Agreement / Service Contract for AMC by using the Transaction
Code ME31K
Enter necessary data like Vendor, Agreement Type, Item Category as “D” and Acct Assignment Cat. as
“F”
Enter the service short text, here I have taken 4 visits for Preventive and two visits for Free Break Down.
Since system will not allow zero price, entered minimum amount as 0.01 USD for Free Break Down
Services.
SAVE the Outline Agreement after entering all the details. System will generate Outline agreement
number.
Step 3:- Create General Maintenance Task List by using the transaction Code IA05 and enter the control
key as PM03 and enter the Outline agreement number as shown below.
By using the service specifications button copy the services from the agreement
Step 4:- Create single cycle maintenance plan by using the transaction code IP41 and enter the Task List
which was created earlier.
Step 5:- Schedule Maintenance Plan and Release Maintenance Order
1. Maintenance Plan can be scheduled manually by using the Transaction IP10, in regular practice
these maintenance plans will be run on batch job in background.
2. Upon scheduling , Maintenance Orders will be triggered with reference to the intervals maintained
in Maintenance Plan
3. The Maintenance Orders (Preventive) called will be released to process further
4. Purchase requisition will be triggered on release of Maintenance Order.
Step 7:-Use the transaction ML81n, Create service entry sheet with reference to the Purchase Order
which was created from Purchase Requisition shown in the earlier screen shot.
After completion of the Service entry sheet service cost will reflect in the Maintenance Order and do the
TECO and other normal PM process like settlement and business completion of the order.
Similarly for any Paid Break Down Services, we can create one more line item in the Outline Agreement and
process the same like Break Down Order.