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SAP EAM Training (Plant Maintenance & Asset Management)

SAP EAM training, still widely called SAP PM, teaches you to configure enterprise asset management in S/4HANA.

  • 40 hours
  • Beginner
  • Live online
  • C_TS413_2023

What is SAP EAM Training (Plant Maintenance & Asset Management)?

SAP EAM training, still widely called SAP PM, teaches you to configure enterprise asset management in S/4HANA. You build the technical object hierarchy of functional locations and equipment, configure maintenance notifications and orders, plan preventive maintenance with task lists and maintenance plans, run breakdown and corrective maintenance, handle refurbishment and calibration, and manage maintenance costs, reporting and mobile execution. It maps to the SAP Certified Associate exam for S/4HANA Asset Management.

What you get

  • Design a technical object structure of functional locations and equipment
  • Configure notifications and the breakdown maintenance process
  • Run the maintenance order lifecycle from planning to settlement
  • Build preventive maintenance plans with strategies and task lists

Who this course is for

New to the field

  • Maintenance planners and engineers moving into SAP
  • Reliability and plant operations staff
  • MM or PP consultants adding asset management

Working professionals

  • Consultants on an asset-intensive client
  • Facilities and utilities systems teams
  • Anyone targeting the S/4HANA Asset Management exam

Prerequisites

  • Maintenance, engineering or plant operations experience helps.
  • No SAP or coding experience required.

What you will be able to do

  • Design a technical object structure of functional locations and equipment
  • Configure notifications and the breakdown maintenance process
  • Run the maintenance order lifecycle from planning to settlement
  • Build preventive maintenance plans with strategies and task lists
  • Configure refurbishment, calibration and spare parts processes
  • Explain maintenance cost flows into FI and CO
  • Use the Fiori planner and technician apps

Salary range

India
6-24 LPA
United States
90k-135k

Market ranges for SAP EAM / PM Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.

Curriculum

Asset management foundations and structures

Model the plant before you maintain it, because a bad technical structure ruins every later report.

  • EAM scope and the maintenance process
  • Maintenance plant versus planning plant
  • Functional locations and structure indicators
  • Equipment master and equipment categories
  • Installing and dismantling equipment
  • Bills of material for equipment and functional locations
  • Measuring points and counters
  • Classification and characteristics for assets

Notifications and breakdown maintenance

Capture what has failed and get a crew to it, which is the most visible part of the role.

  • Notification types: malfunction, activity, request
  • Notification structure and catalogs
  • Breakdown reporting and downtime capture
  • Priority, response time and escalation
  • Notification to order conversion
  • Emergency and shutdown work
  • Malfunction analysis and MTBF basics
  • Reporting on breakdowns

Maintenance orders and execution

Plan, schedule, execute and settle the work order lifecycle.

  • Order types and order type parameters
  • Operations, components and external services
  • Material availability and reservations
  • Permits, work clearance and safety
  • Scheduling and capacity requirements
  • Confirmations: time, material and measurement
  • Technical completion and business completion
  • Order settlement to cost centre or asset

Preventive and predictive maintenance

Move from firefighting to planned work, which is the whole business case for EAM.

  • Task lists: equipment, functional location, general
  • Maintenance strategies and packages
  • Time-based maintenance plans
  • Performance-based plans with counters
  • Multiple counter plans
  • Scheduling, call horizon and deadline monitoring
  • Condition-based and predictive maintenance concepts
  • Maintenance plan cost planning

Refurbishment, calibration and spares

Handle the specialised processes asset-intensive plants depend on.

  • Refurbishment orders and split valuation
  • Serial numbers and equipment tracking
  • Calibration inspection with QM integration
  • Spare parts planning and stocking policy
  • External services and service entry sheets
  • Warranty management basics
  • Subcontracted maintenance
  • Pool asset and fleet management overview

Costs, integration and controlling

Explain what maintenance costs and where the money went.

  • Maintenance cost planning and budgeting
  • Actual cost collection on the order
  • Integration with MM for parts and services
  • Integration with FI and CO for settlement
  • Integration with PP for production downtime
  • Investment versus expense maintenance
  • Cost reporting by asset and cost centre
  • Maintenance KPIs and benchmarks

Mobile, analytics and modern EAM

Cover the parts of EAM that have changed most in S/4HANA.

  • Fiori apps for maintenance planners and technicians
  • Mobile maintenance and offline execution
  • Maintenance planner workbench
  • Asset Central and intelligent asset management overview
  • Analytics for reliability and availability
  • Linear asset management basics
  • Geographical enablement for assets
  • Data quality for asset master records

Projects you will build

Plant structure build

Model a production line as functional locations and equipment with BOMs, measuring points and classification, then validate it with a maintenance report.

Breakdown to settlement

Raise a malfunction notification, convert it to an order, plan parts and labour, confirm the work, technically complete it and settle the costs.

Preventive maintenance programme

Build a strategy with maintenance packages, create time and counter based plans, schedule them and monitor the call horizon over several cycles.

Tools you will use

IL01 / IE01
Functional location and equipment master creation, the backbone of every EAM implementation.
IW21 / IW31
Notification and maintenance order creation, the daily transactions for planners and supervisors.
IP41 / IP10
Maintenance plan creation and scheduling, where preventive maintenance is driven.
IW41 and IW38
Order confirmation and the order list, used for execution and backlog management.
Maintenance planner workbench
Fiori planning board for scheduling work orders against available capacity.
Mobile maintenance apps
Technician execution on a device, including offline confirmation in plants with poor coverage.

Certification

Exam
SAP Certified Associate, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Asset Management
Code
C_TS413_2023
Level
Associate
Exam fee
US$560 (single exam)

What learners say

I was a maintenance planner in a refinery. The preventive maintenance plan project is exactly the work I now configure for clients.

Prakash R., SAP PM Consultant

The technical structure module saved me from a mistake I have seen two clients make. Structure first, everything else after.

Ananya B., EAM Consultant

Cost settlement and reporting finally made sense. I can now argue for maintenance budget with real numbers.

Iain M., Reliability Engineer

Fees and training modes

Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.

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Live Online Training

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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.

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1-to-1 Training

₹49,000

Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI

Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.

Affordable

Self-paced Training

₹9,000

One-time fee, lowest-cost option

Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.

Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.

What a day looks like

Backlog review
Open notifications and overdue orders, deciding what this week's crews will actually do.
Work order planning
Adding operations, parts and permits so a job can be released and executed safely.
Configuration
A new order type parameter, a task list change or a maintenance plan adjustment requested by the plant.
Shop floor support
Helping a technician with a confirmation or a measurement document that will not post.
Cost and reliability review
Looking at maintenance spend per asset and breakdown frequency with the reliability engineer.

Training a team?

We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this SAP PM or SAP EAM?

The same functional area. SAP now brands it Enterprise Asset Management in S/4HANA, and the certification uses Asset Management, but most job adverts and consultants still say SAP PM.

Do I need engineering experience?

It helps a great deal because the module mirrors how plants are maintained. Without it, expect to spend extra time on the structures and preventive maintenance modules.

Does this cover mobile maintenance?

Yes, at a working level: the Fiori planner and technician apps and how offline execution is handled in plants with poor connectivity.

How does EAM relate to QM?

Closely for calibration inspections, where a maintenance plan triggers a QM inspection. We cover that integration.

Which certification does this map to?

The SAP Certified Associate exam for S/4HANA Asset Management. Confirm the current exam code with SAP before booking.

Is there hands-on access?

Yes, for structures, orders, plans and all three projects.

Ready to start?

Talk to us about batch dates, the syllabus or anything else.

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