PM order in APO PP/DS

[former_member614389]

Hi

I have a requirement to manage PM work orders in APO PP/DS. In official document it's mentioned this is not possible but I just want to check with experienced users if there's any other possibilities by enhancement or workarounds. The reason is that we want to have a lot of work orders WITHOUT goods movement (GR/GI) but only capacity requirement and scheduling. By the way I also want to ask if that's possible to create such kind of production order or planned order in APO (without material movement)? just like CO07 in ECC.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[former_member614389]

Thank you very much R. This is a bit different from what I have read from HELP

Let me spend some time on this and come back.

[rupesh_brahmankar3]

Hello,

Plant Maintenance is supported in APO.

Creation, scheduling, and capacity planning of the orders take place in SAP R/3. On saving an order in SAP R/3, the data from the order that is relevant to planning in SAP APO is transferred to a maintenance order in SAP APO.

Please refer SAP help link on it.

Maintenance Orders in SAP APO

Also refer a useful blog on Plant Maintenance and APO integration.

SAP APO SAP PM Integration

Best Regards,

R.Brahamankar

[former_member614389]

Hi R

according to the description below, we don't have a chance to do any change in APO to those maintenance orders. my expectation was to use PP/DS to schedule the PM orders...
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You cannot change a maintenance order in SAP APO; its only purpose is to complete the planning picture by providing maintenance-triggered component requirements and resource downtimes. Therefore, maintenance orders are transferred as fixed orders without capacity requirements and cannot be scheduled in SAP APO.
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