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Service and Asset Management

Service and Asset Management from BDF EXPERTS connects maintenance, service processes and asset management in the SAP environment.

28. May 2026
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The maintenance and servicing of machines and plant are decisive for productivity, quality and safety. Reduce downtime and the cost of spare parts and repairs through regular, preventive maintenance and effective service and maintenance management.

Efficient service and maintenance concepts

A well-developed concept for service and maintenance forms the basis for the efficient operation of your assets and for preserving their service life and performance. To detect potential problems early, minimise unplanned downtime and the associated costs, and ensure the safety of your personnel, a clear and well-organised management of service and maintenance data is indispensable.

Gerd Hartmann
Gerd Hartmann
Profit Centre Manager, Service and Asset Management
By using virtual technical objects in PPG, the maintenance and service objects Functional Location and Equipment can be taken into account early in the planning and manufacturing process. The automated conversion of the virtual technical objects into real technical objects at the most suitable moment forms the basis for seamlessly integrated processes. This is what makes true Product Lifecycle Management possible in the first place!

BDF EXPERTS is a leading provider of maintenance and service solutions for mechanical and plant engineering. Using SAP Product and Process Governance (SAP PPG), we offer you holistic, integrated support for your processes:

  • (Semi-)automated build-up of asset structures
  • Automated provision of spare-parts structures (spare-parts bills of materials) from PPG
  • Seamless integration of the derived structures into the standard SAP service and maintenance processes
  • Usability of the PPG structures and the derived maintenance and service structures in the SAP standard asset configuration to represent the target configuration and to check the configuration when a configuration change occurs
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Highlights:

Virtual technical objects:

When building service and maintenance structures in SAP PPG, use virtual functional locations and equipment. For later service operations, the functional locations, equipment and the links between them can be generated directly from these.

In addition to the planning structure, create further structures for documentation. In this way, documents can be structured with folder systems free of redundancy, which can in turn be linked to one another. As a third essential component for building a digital twin for plant operation, spare parts structures can be used in the later service processes.

Provision of service data:

Build your digital twin from the PPG planning data for the later operation of the plant by generating the functional location structure and the corresponding equipment for an entire plant complex, starting from the engineering structure and the functional elements it contains.

  • The spare parts of an item of equipment can be mapped via equipment bills of materials or material bills of materials with maintenance usage and generated directly from SAP PPG.
  • You can present the contents of the customer documentation in a separate structure and link it to the functional locations and equipment.

Remanufacturing integration:

With SAP PPG, you are able to map your remanufacturing processes and record them as maintenance records.

  • In this way, using SAP variant configuration, the actual remanufacturing scope can be determined after inspection and transmitted to the MES with the corresponding routing and components.
  • Through integration into service and maintenance, equipment master records can be created, assigned or updated directly after remanufacturing.

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