SAP Savants

Elevated Enterprise Asset Management

SAP Savants is a leading SAP consulting and implementation partner for companies that utilize the SAP Plant Maintenance, Materials Management, Controlling, Project Systems and Quality Management modules to operate/manage their production facilities.

Equipment Builder

Master Data  is the back bone of your business, it has to be accurate and has to be maintained.  For a manufacturing facility there are many facets of master data.  Equipment, material masters, bill of material,  vendors are four of the more critical items that if built correctly will help with both the processing of transactional data and for month end / year end analytics.

 Experience - we are proud to have been given he responsibility of managing the build of SAP asset data for a major oil operators refinery extension.  This $6bn capital project resulted in over 50,000 asset records that where structured per IS0 14224 and needed 6,000 new material masters for the 5,000 bills of material.  Not forgetting the 7,000 maintenance plans and routes.  We supplied the tools, build methodology, program management  and SAP expertise, the business provided the resources and site knowledge ... references are available on request.

The Tools

SAP Savants Equipment Builder  - is a custom SAP transaction that puts all of the data required to build and maintain asset intensive data into a single work space.  The hierarchy shows Locations, Equipment, Materials with full inventory details, Maintenance plans with items and object list, dedicated task lists, object links (we cannot fully emphasise how powerful this feature is ... click here to find out ...), notifications, maintenance orders, classification.  Right click to add. change remove data, mass change, export to excel or LSMW.  Import equipment data from projects and drag/drop into the tree ... publish when the project build is complete.

SAP Savants Equipment Manager  -  Is a custom SAP transaction that puts all of your functional location/equipment centric data into a single work space.  Information that is available for each asset record includes BoM count, PM count, Object list Count and includes a 1 base count for each record ... you can also specify to include data from up to three classes.  Click here to read how we used this report to manage the PM and BoM build for a refinery that was installing a new Coker unit.

SAP Savants BoM Manager  -  Is a custom SAP transaction that puts all of the information related to Bills of Material, Equipment, Material Masters, Inventory, Where Used into a single work space.  Material centric or Equipment centric, you choose where to start and the transaction will gather all of the related data.  You choose either an equipment or material list and the transaction will get all related material data, including MRP information, inventory levels, BoM/where used data including material and equipment criticality.  Click here to how we used this data to provide clarity on the setting of min/max levels for critical equipment spares.

Building Master Data

Maintaining Master Data