Centralize Maintenance Planning

Within an organization, centralize planning supports following structures −

There is only one plant for all the technical objects which is maintenance planning plant and maintenance plant.

In other scenario, it is possible that a company has multiple maintenance plants and one plant is there in which maintenance planning is performed. All other plants has this plants as maintenance planning plant in which all activities are performed and this plant is indicated as maintenance planning plant in the system.

As per above example −

Plants 001, 002

Maintenance Plants 001, 002

Maintenance Planning Plant 002

Plants assigned to maintenance planning plant 001

Decentralize Maintenance Planning

In this scenario, company consists of multiple plants and each plant acts as its own maintenance planning plant and in SAP system all plants are mentioned as maintenance planning plant.

Plants 001, 002

Maintenance Plants 001,002

Maintenance planning plants 001, 002