below are the list of mandatory turn around management system feature and the preliminary assessment of SAP PM capability based these expected features:

Define Short Term and Long Term Master Plan

oil and gas industry need to maintain their production rate to ensure the demand can always be fullfilled especially for state owned oil and gas refinery.

Lack of gasoline stock on the gas station can become a national problem. It may affect the national stability and security particularly for developing country as most of the citizen is still using their own vehicle/motorcycle.

In order to maintain the gasoline production capacity, a proper turn around planning need to be set up.

below is the list mandatory feature on CMMS & EAM to address those strategic objective.

No Feature Data Input Compute SAP PM as Data Input SAP PM as Computation
1 Set TA Interval on Maintenance Plan based on Vendor Recommendation Yes Yes Yes Yes
2 Set TA Interval on Maintenance Plan based on Government Regulation Yes Yes Yes Yes
3 Set TA Interval on Maintenance Plan based on Equipment Lifecycle Yes Yes Yes Yes
4 Set TA Fixed Date on Maintenance Plan based on MOC request Yes Yes Yes Yes
5 Set TA Interval on Maintenance Plan based on Equipment performance decline report (predictive) Yes Yes Yes No
6 Set TA Interval on Maintenance Plan based on Failure Rate/Pattern (predictive) Yes Yes Yes No
7 Differentiate Non TA and TA work order Yes No Yes No
8 Integrate with legacy apps that manage TA job list and task Yes No Yes No

Define TA Job List

TA Job list is consolidated maintenance program for turn around over particular period of time (eg: TA Job List for FY25)

Usually job list is managed outside SAP because the organization would like to manage custom data structure and more detailed job list information.

— an integration to SAP is generally recommended from legacy apps using api or through csv file to ensure no double data input.

No Feature Data Input Compute SAP PM as Data Input SAP PM as Computation
1 Opt1 - Create and manage job list with standard format of SAP but with free text input (ms word style) for the details Yes No Yes No
2 Opt2 - Create and Manage job list based on company specific format Yes No Yes No
3 Op3 Ingest turn around job list from legacy apps and automatically turn it into work order Yes No Yes No
4 Op3 Ingest turn around job list from legacy apps and automatically turn it into work order Yes No Yes No

Work Order Creation Procedure for Early Turnaround prior to the WBS release

some turn around activity is planned ahead before the TA WBS is released.

for example the material issues or material requisition planning might happened as early as two years before the TA execution started.

No Feature Data Input Compute SAP PM as Data Input SAP PM as Computation
1 Create TA work order and sub work order (for material issue and external services issue ) without specifying WBS Yes No Yes No
2 Adjust TA work order and sub work order WBS when the WBS is released. Yes No Yes No

Monitor and track material issues for turn around work order

before the TA execution, there is a process called TA pre execution, on this stage, all required material and contract for external services must be ready.

there should a dashboard to monitor material issues and contract (for external services) issues progress

No Feature Data Input Compute SAP PM as Data Input SAP PM as Computation
1 an Integrated dashboard to check material issues progress of a work order Yes No Yes No
2 an Integrated dashboard to check contract issues progress of a work order Yes No Yes No

Integrate scheduling tools into SAP

most mature scheduling software on oil and gas or manufacturing industry is oracle primavera p6. it has rich capability to simulate perform network activity with various constraint compared to other scheduling tools such as SAP PS.

Domain segregation:

  1. SAP will be used as TA work order workflow management
  2. All master data/transactional data related to the Work order will be managed on SAP
  3. Job list from legacy appps is ingested to SAP as work order
  4. Primavera will be used as scheduling software to perform CPM, network activity & schedule optimization.
No Feature Data Input Compute SAP PM as Data Input SAP PM as Computation
1 Synchronize SAP Work order into primavera Activity Yes No Yes No
2 Synchronize SAP associated task list for particular work order into primavera Activity Steps Yes No Yes No
3 Synchronize Back final(optmized) network activity planned date from primavera back to SAP as work order with updated planned date Yes No Yes No
4 Planned vs actual budget monitoring during and after the TA execution using SAP PS Yes No Yes No