SAP Plant Maintenance (PM): the complete guide

With more than 400,000 customers worldwide, SAP has established itself as a reference in terms of ERP over the years.

Rare are the software so powerful, and allowing to adapt to all types of business.

It allows a notable improvement of the processes, increases the performance of the companies and especially increases the communication and the exchange of information between service with its unique database.

Training today on SAP is clearly an excellent choice for the future. The fields of application are constantly expanding and the need to improve productivity and quality is growing.

However, it must be recognized that it is as powerful as it is complex, which may seem disconcerting at first.

This training, essentially centered on SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), a module that is very popular in companies and whose impact and importance increases over the years, addresses in a clear and detailed manner all of its functionalities in the latest version of SAP ERP: S4/HANA.

• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) : Who is this training for?

The topics covered are not only of interest to those who work directly with the PM module of SAP. It will be of interest to all those who work in relation with it, such as the Material Management (or MM) module, the Production Planning (or PP) module or the Quality Management (or QM) module.

But not only!

It should also be of interest to maintenance managers, method departments, project managers, but also plant managers or anyone working in a sector with a maintenance department. People who would like to understand in depth the functionalities that are already implemented in their company, or the functionalities that they should consider for the future, as the software offers so many possibilities, will find what they need.

Since this training includes the necessary basics of maintenance but also of IT to understand the whole module, people who want to change careers in maintenance or in IT and more particularly in SAP are welcome.

However, I advise to have a taste for this field and to have a minimal knowledge of SAP. If it is not the case, I refer you to my training “Initiation SAP beginner – The Basics” before venturing into this one.

• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) : What will I learn?

This course is designed to be very complete and is divided in an optimal way to allow you to follow at your own pace and to easily consult each small chapter.

We will cover the following topics:

1. Maintenance, seen today
2. Organizational Structure
3. The structure of Technical Objects
4. Maintenance processes
5. Interactions between modules
6. KPIs and indicators
7. Le Customizing dans SAP
8. A chapter based on the ease and optimization of the software in terms of user adherence
9. Tips, both for a maintenance department and for an SAP PM implementation
10. Questionnaires complete this training, inspired by the SAP PM certification.

• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) : How will I learn?

The video materials, articles and downloadable documents have been created to make learning enjoyable.

No reading of Powerpoint or other documents.

We wanted to make it more modern, more polished.

Moreover, each concept will be clearly explained before moving on to the “Software” part with the help of these explanation videos.

You don’t need to have SAP installed on your PC. Everything will be shown to you directly in a real environment.

For those who would like to go further and practice directly in the software, I can advise you the Michael Management website, to get a “Live Access” pass in the SAP environment. You will find the link in the last section of the course.

This is the solution we used to create this course.

• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) : What’s next?

At the end of this training, you will have learned a lot, not only about the PM module of SAP but also about other modules such as IM, PP or QM. But also, you will have learned about Maintenance.

You will have all the cards in hand to become a PM consultant.

But as we know that it is sometimes difficult to go beyond the teaching and that, in concrete cases, one can easily get lost, we continue to bring you our help and support:

1. By updating our training courses on a regular basis according to your feedback
2. Through an exchange system via Udemy, especially the Q&A but also by message
3. By an email address, for more complex cases where it would be necessary to send us files
4. It is also possible to provide you with a personalized coaching system, according to your personal objectives

We want to be close to our community, and above all, to accompany you in your success.

“What you are tomorrow depends on what you do today”.

So take the step. Do not hesitate. The best investment you can make is to invest in yourself!

The Key User Training team