Plant Section in SAP

[Former Member]

Below is SAP definition of Plant section.

Define Plant Sections (PS)

You define your plant sections in this step.

The plant section enables you to subdivide the maintenance plant from the point of view of production responsibility. The person responsible for the plant section is the contact for coordination between production and plant maintenance.
The plant section can be used for evaluation purposes.

Every piece of equipment and functional location can be assigned to a plant section.

Note

You can also specify a plant section when processing maintenance tasks.

Q1- What is the mean of " subdivide the maintenance plant from the point of view of production responsibility" ?

Q2- What we achieve by the statement "The person responsible for the plant section is the contact for coordination between production and plant maintenance."

Q3- for what tye of report or KPI it will help ?

Scenario: In on Plant Location there are 3 different lines of production , exm (JUICE, JAM and Biscuit)

For Juice line there is Filling --- Printing ---Packing  --- Out 

For Jam line there is  Filling --- Printing ---Packing  --- Out

For Biscuit there is   Backing ----- Packing ---- Out

Individual process line have individual process supervisor under once maintenance department as mechanical, electrical etc...

As per the above scenario please help me what will be the best to go for Plant section.

[peter_atkin]

PM76 Aug,

Some companies also try to restrict the number of Plants/Planning Plants in their system such that one Plant/Planning Plant may incorporate several separate locations.

In these cases the Plant Section can be used (along with FLoc structure) to distinguish the different locations.

PeteA

[jogeswararao_kavala]

Your maintenance plant can be 1000 under which you have 3 plant sections (Juice, Jam and Biscuit lines). Individual supervisor can be the Person responsible. His role as told in the definition indicates the integration activities between PM and PP (production) modules. Like the SAP maintenance objects (Maint Order) and SAP production objects (Prod Order) can not go simultaneously or with overlaps on Equipments/FLocns.  SAP keeps provisions for industrial processes integration between funtions for fool-proofing, but many users do not make use of them. The PP work Center field given in the Location tab of Technial Objects play a role in the integration in the PM and PP processes.

At our implementation we used Plant sections as I mentioned above. 14 production lines so 14 Plant sections, but did not make use of Person Responsible field, because we have coordination outside SAP. These things have wide scope of interpretation as per their usages by different users. So wait for more expert opinions.

KJogeswaraRao

[Former Member]

In addition ( In PM work center there is person responsible, So as per the scenario production line supervisor will be the person responsible OR  Mechanical / Electrical / Instrument supervisors OR whole maintenance department will be the person responsible.

bottom line there are two thing Plant Section and Responsible person in the view of Plant Section and Production Planning  .

[P745394]

Hi , Plant section is commonly used to indicate production person or group responsible and planner group in planning plant is used to indicate maintenance person or group responsible. You better use accordingly.

Responsible person in work center  is the in charge of it and is rarely used. In your case it is mechanical/electrical/instrument supervisors or whole maint dept.

Regards, Srinivas