SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) helps companies automate and optimize maintenance processes and thus make the maintenance of their plants more efficient and cost-effective. It is a module of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

SAP PM offers numerous functions from planning maintenance activities, creating maintenance orders and managing resources to monitoring and controlling activities and billing maintenance orders. With SAP Plant Maintenance, maintenance orders, asset master data, maintenance master data, maintenance manuals or technical documentation can be easily created and managed. SAP PM enables integrated, company-wide management of maintenance work by providing a uniform platform for planning, controlling and monitoring maintenance.

SAP Plant Maintenance features include:

• Planning maintenance activities, including defining goals, creating schedules and tracking progress
• Creating maintenance orders and tracking progress
• Managing maintenance resources, including tracking maintenance orders, monitoring costs and managing
• Monitoring and controlling activities, including tracking progress and identifying deviations
• Billing of orders, including recording consumables, controlling costs and preparing reports

SAP PM can be used in various industries, including power plants, chemical companies, oil and gas companies, energy producers, and manufacturing plants.