Budget Planning for Plant Maintenance

Question

Explain functions for Budget planning through SAP BW-BPS (SAP Business Information
          Warehouse)

Answer 1

SAP has the MCB functionlity for this.
With maintenance cost budgeting (MCB) functionality, SAP offers a product life cycle management cross-application component supplying a solution for planning a maintenance cost budget. A MCB in general is a budget for all costs for maintenance, inspection, and repair of technical assets. In the stricter sense of SAP R/3 software, a MCB is a budget for PM order costs.
MCB provides the following planning scenarios with pre-configured standard entries:
- The history-based scenario is history-based and the budget categories are combined in one overall planning scenario. This scenario can create records with budget categories “preventive”, “planned” or “unplanned.”
- The ad-hoc (hist) scenario
- The maintenance plan scenario is zero-based and can only create records with budget use “preventive.”
- The task list scenario is zero-based and can only create records with budget use “planned.”
- The ad-hoc (plan) scenario is zero-based and can create records with budget categories “planned” or “unplanned.”
The benefits of an appropriate budgeting tool include:
- Tool to drive down maintenance costs
- Better data integrity than spreadsheet-based budgeting
- Access to your plan data from everywhere with a user-friendly front end (Web interfaces)
- Ability to reflect changes in near future
- Flexible and accurate reporting
- Integration with other enterprise systems
- Data extracted automatically from back-end system
- Reduction of the budget preparation time
- Continuous planning with standardized, automated budget processes
- Better transparency of the budget planning process
- Support of planning as a company-wide effort, with a great number of managers and employees contributing
- Not just a tool but analytical applications
Regards,
Paul