GIS "Touch Points" to SAP's Work Management

SAP Modules Involved With Work Management
There are three modules that comprise the Work Management solution within SAP. The modules Plant Maintenance (PM), Materials Management (MM) and Controlling (CO) are described below.

Plant Maintenance (PM)
The Plant Maintenance (PM) module in SAP provides the ability to define, plan, commit resources, report actual costs, and archive history against igtechnical objectslc defined in the SAP System. Plant maintenance orders are associated with customers for installation, maintenance, service and billing purposes. A utility could use the Plant Maintenance module of SAP to manage and track transmission and distribution work. Additionally, work performed within other parts of the organization, such as hydro and facility maintenance, could also be managed and tracked in PM. SAP PM "notificationsl" and "orders" are used to schedule work and capture actual costs.

Materials Management (MM)
The Materials Management module of SAP manages and tracks inventory and materials. It forecasts material requirements based on the planned material and schedule of those deliveries. A material master record represents each stock item. This record contains key details about the item including the price. The MM module is used to issue materials to individual work orders. Additionally, MM tracks inventory and provides a mechanism to purchase both stock and non-stock goods.

Controlling (CO)
The Controlling component in the SAP System provides for internal cost accounting. The Overhead Cost Controlling (CO-OM) component focuses on monitoring and allocation of overhead. The Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) analyzes where overhead occurs within the organization. Costs are assigned to the sub-areas of the organization where they originated. The SAP CO module offers a wide variety of methods for allocating posted amounts and quantities. Overhead Orders (CO-OM-OPA) collects and analyzes costs based on individual internal measures. The SAP R/3 System can monitor and automatically check budgets assigned to each measure.
"TOUCH POINTS". WITHIN EACH MODULE
Plant Maintenance (PM)
The Plant Maintenance (PM) module has three interface intouch pointslc within the GIS: job initiation, job estimation, and job completion. Each one of these will be discussed below.