---
title: "Equipment"
description: "Equipment, equipment partners, long texts and warranties: what MDM maintains, the row actions and SAP operations, the rules SAP applies and the differences on the Private Edition."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Objects and Fields > Asset Management"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Equipment

> Equipment, equipment partners, long texts and warranties: what MDM maintains, the row actions and SAP operations, the rules SAP applies and the differences on the Private Edition.

> **Draft brief for authors.** The family overview (hand-written) plus the generated pages below.

**Overview contains:** the four objects and how they relate (Linked Objects); what MDM maintains per object (Equipment: Create, Change and eight SAP operations; Partner: Create, Change, Delete; Long Text and Warranty: Create, Change); the SAP interface in the SAP background callout; what is not offered (classification, documents, measuring points).

**Source in the product repository:** `docs/help-portal/equipment.md` §1, `db/staging.cds` ST100–ST115, `docs/staging-fields/API_EQUIPMENT.json`.

## In this section

- [Equipment: Fields](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-fields.md): Every field of an equipment MDM maintains, with type and length, whether it is a key, required or sent only on Create, its value help and its availability per edition.
- [Equipment: Row Actions and SAP Operations](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-actions.md): Create, Change and the eight SAP operations of an equipment: what each needs in the row, what SAP requires, and which operation undoes which.
- [Equipment: Rules SAP Applies](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-sap-rules.md): What SAP S/4HANA Cloud allows and refuses for equipment, in plain words, and what MDM does about each rule.
- [Equipment: Private Edition Differences](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-private-edition.md): What differs for equipment on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, per recorded release: operations not offered, longer fields, partner rows that cannot be deleted, numbers with leading zeros.
- [Equipment Partner: Fields and Actions](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-partner.md): The partner rows of an equipment: their fields, and the Create, Change and Delete actions, with the partner counter SAP assigns.
- [Equipment Long Text: Fields and Rules](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-long-text.md): The long text of an equipment: its fields, Create and Change, and how SAP treats line breaks and the language.
- [Equipment Warranty: Fields and Actions](https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/equipment-warranty.md): The warranty data of an equipment: its fields and the Create and Change actions.