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Usage of Permits in SAP Plant Maintenance 1 PDF
Usage of Permits in SAP Plant Maintenance 1 PDF
Usage of Permits in SAP Plant Maintenance 1 PDF
Maintenance
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Purpose
This process describes the use of permits during order processing. Before an order can be executed or
technically completed, a planner ensures that:
Prerequisites
You define permit categories in the Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service by choosing
Master Data in Plant Maintenance and
These permits can be assigned to Technical Objects and / or Orders. Assignment of Permits to the PM Order
can be done in 2 ways.
created with reference to these Technical Objects with the condition of Proposal tick box selected in
Permits Screen.
To assign the Permits to Technical Objects in Technical Objects, follow this path.
Prerequisites: Permits should be created. Refer Transaction Code IPMD. Creation of Permits will be
discussed at a later phase of this document.
This type of Permits assignment to the technical objects will be done whenever critical equipments are used
& approval is required prior to all kinds of
maintenance.
Apart from assigning Permits to technical objects, Permits can be assigned directly in PM order. In some of
the Technical Objects, Approval will not be
required always whenever maintenance is being done. So whenever approval required, permits can assigned
in PM Order.
1. Based on Cost
Based on Cost:
Here, approval will be asked from the manager or responsible person if the maintenance cost goes beyond
certain limit. Here costs include Total
Planned Cost of Order, Total Estimated Costs of Order & Total Actual Costs of Order.
Here, Permits should be created automatically whenever Total Planned Costs of Order goes beyond the
limit. The following steps are to be followed.
b. If the approval is for specific type of Order (ex. Only for Preventive Maintenance), then add
Order Type as another characteristic
(CSEVPERMIT – AUART)
2. Create Class by including all the created characteristics (T – Code is CL02)
Once all the required characteristics are created for the Permits configuration, Permit Class should be
created.
Pre-Requisites: Permit Class should be configured in OIPG. The class name in CL02 should be same as
the class mentioned in OIPG.
In the class of Permit, all the required characteristics should be assigned.
1. Creation of Permits
Once after creating Required Characteristics & Class, Permits can be configured using these details.
As shown above, Permit Code, Permit description & Permit category should be given. After that, Approval
stage should be mentioned with
requirement status of approval. Approval stages are Order Release & Order TECO. Requirement statuses
are
3. Permit is optional
Here the condition is that approval is required for the maintenance if the planned cost is more than 1000
SAR & order type is ZM03.
Whenever order is created with order type ZM03 & total planned costs goes beyond the limit of 1000 SAR,
this permit will be assigned automatically
in the order. By having proper authorisation, only authorised person can issue this permit. Without having
the issue of permit, Order release can be
rectified.
As per the required parameter to be considered for approval process, all the characteristics should be
created & assigned the Permit class. All the
1. There are 3 different Order types (PM01, PM02 & PM03); but for all order types, approval is required if
the total planned cost is more than 1000
a. One, create 3 different approvals with the combination PM01 & 1000 SAR, PM02 & 1000 and
PM03 & 1000.
b. Second, Create only one permit by assigning all 3 order types. Pre-Requisite to assign multiple
values in Permit configuration is that Select
Multiple Values while creating Characteristics & giving appropriate no. of characters.
2. Authorisation for Permits Issue can be controlled using Authorisation Object I_SOGEN PM: Permit