Online Course
Preventive Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA
with Steve Grace
10/23/2026 – 11/06/2026
The course in detail:
Take control of your maintenance operations! This expert-led course equips EAM professionals with essential SAP S/4HANA preventive maintenance skills. Learn to configure master data, manage equipment hierarchies, and execute time-based, performance-based, condition-based, and predictive maintenance strategies. You’ll streamline maintenance order processing, handle FI-CO integration to track and control costs, and generate insightful reports and dashboards to monitor KPIs. Whether you’re implementing plant maintenance with SAP S/4HANA for the first time or optimizing an existing setup, you’ll leave with practical, job-ready expertise to drive efficiency and reduce downtime across your organization.
What you'll learn:
- Configure and load your data for preventive maintenance activities
- Plan and execute your time-based, performance-based, condition-based, and predictive maintenance activities
- Complete FI-CO activities in support of maintenance activities and costs
- Generate maintenance activity reports
🕒 The lessons start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this preventive maintenance course suitable for?
- EAM/PM consultants
- Implementation leads and team members
- Manufacturing process architects/owners
- Maintenance supervisors
Prerequisite: Attendees should have prior understanding of the fundamentals of maintenance planning and familiarity with basic SAP system navigation. This course considers PM notifications, immediate/emergency repairs, equipment calibration, and project-based maintenance as out of scope. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These preventive maintenance topics will be covered in this course:
- Functional locations
- Equipment and serial numbers
- Master data
- Classification data
- Measuring points and counters
- Order management
- Time-based maintenance
- Performance-based maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Maintenance order processing
- Integration with finance and logistics
- KPI development and monitoring systems
- Advanced analytics and dashboard creation
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Note: Can’t join live? No problem! With your purchase, you’ll receive access to the session recordings and slide decks directly on the learning platform shortly after each session concludes. Learn at your own pace, revisit key concepts, and reinforce your understanding of the topic. Whether live or on demand, this course offers you the opportunity to learn directly from a top SAP expert. Don’t miss out!
Lessons
Core Configuration and Master Data
Build the foundation for effective preventive maintenance by configuring core settings and creating essential master data—from functional locations and equipment records to task lists, work centers, and measuring points.
Topics:
- Centralized vs. decentralized preventive maintenance
- Location hierarchy
- Creating functional locations
- Reference locations
- Linear asset management
- Equipment and serial numbers
- Bills of materials
- Work centers
- Task lists
- Classification data
- Measuring points and counters
- Order management
Preventive Maintenance Planning and Execution
Set up and execute time-based, performance-based, condition-based, and predictive maintenance plans. Learn how to track their outcomes through work confirmations, progress updates, and activity reporting to keep operations running smoothly.
Topics:
- Time-based maintenance
- Performance-based maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Fixed interval maintenance cycles, regulatory compliance requirements, and asset reliability optimization
- Single-cycle plans
- Strategy plans
- Counter-based scheduling parameters
- Threshold configuration and triggers
- OR and AND operations
- Work confirmation procedures
- Time and activity recording
- Progress tracking and updates
- Mobile execution support
Maintenance Controlling, Reporting, and Integration
Track and settle maintenance costs, generate insightful reports and KPI dashboards, and explore how preventive maintenance integrates with MM, PP, MRP, and QM modules for end-to-end operational visibility.
Topics:
- PM-FI/CO integration fundamentals
- Maintenance work order costing
- Maintenance order cost flow and settlement
- Cost analysis and budgeting strategies
- Object statistics, breakdown analysis, cost analysis MTTR/MTBR
- KPI development and monitoring systems
- Advanced analytics and dashboard creation
- Performance optimization and strategic reporting
- Integration with MM, PP, MRP, PP-DS, and QM
Ticket Options
Early bird pricing valid until July 27, 2026
Your Experts
Steve Grace has over 30 years of experience in supply chain planning, 12 of which as a supply chain manager. He has 18 years of experience in SAP consulting with a focus on production planning and materials management, including 10 years of SAP APO integration experience. He has handled 13 end-to-end implementations, the most recent two in SAP S/4HANA, and is actively engaged in his third SAP S/4HANA project.
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