Question no 3912 : Planning Plant in Plant Maintenance

In SAP PM as at ECC6.0 EhP6, which of the following are mandatory for a Planning Plant ?

(more than one answers)

A)  General Maintenance Task List.
B)  Maintenance Notification.
C)  Maintenance Order.
D)  Permit Master.
E)  Catalog Profile.
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Answers: A, C

Both D) Permit Master and E) Catalog Profile when created is without any Enterprise Structure definition (in this case not linked to any Plant). 

As for B) for Maintenance Notification creation, if an EQ or FL is entered, the system will locate the Planning Plant and Planner Group set in the Technical Objects but even if Planning Plant and Planner Group is not found; the Notification can be saved with BLANK Planning Plant and Planner Group.

The answers are:

A) General Maintenance Task List header requires a Planning Plant.
C) MO header initial screen requires a Planning Plant.

There are 2 types of Plant concept for Plant Maintenance:

Logistics Plant - to identify spare parts Storage

Maintenance Plant - to identify location of Technical Object, to identify the Work Center

Maintenance Planning Plant - the Logistics Plant is to have the behavior as a Planning Plant

The following is the Enterprise Structure iMG for Maintenance Planning Plant:

After the Logistics Plant is created then if it has the behavior of a Planning Plant then use the IMG below to create the Logistics Plant as a Planning Plant.

Below: the PLANT on the left (1st column) is the Maintenance Plant 1100 and 1200, and on the right (3rd column) is the Planning Plant 1100. In this case Planning is centrally done using Plant 1100 for the 2 Maintenance Plants.

Note case 1 of Planning Plant usage:

the Planning Plant is required when creating the Maintenance Order, it can be entered manually or defaulted from the Technical Object EQ of FL.

Note case 2 of Planning Plant usage:

when creating Task List (General Task List, Equipment Task List or Functional Location Task List), the Planning Plant is MANDATORY.