Question:
We are near the beginning of a Plant Maintenance implementation in a R/3 release 4.6C system.
Can anyone point me to useful security related documentation concerning this type of an implementation?
We already have HR, Procurement, Materials Management, and the Financial/Budget functionality in our system & it appears that the functual team may want to control Plant Maintenance at a finer level then we have for other functional areas.
All guidance would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Answer:
It would be interesting to know what risks they perceive that would induce them to control PM more than they would other functional areas. Basically PM is all about creating master data (lots and lots of it do describe the "plant") and then creating notifications (which you would let any one do) and work orders that respond to notifications or work orders that are based on a maintenance plan. Mechanics record what they do in the work order and it gets closed and appropriate accounting entries are made for resources used etc. There is integation with MM so they can reserve and requisition maintenance materials. MM authorizations control this.
In general plant maintenance should be manageable with about four roles: a notifier (can be integrated into a common role, this is just a way of reporting that there seems to be something that needs fixing) a mechanic (manages work orders) a planner, schedules work, creates work orders, creates a maintenance plan etc.) and a master data person who manages all the master data in the plant.
Perhaps the risks asscoiated with your operation justify a tighter control than this. Please share.
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