Learn why (and how) you should migrate from ITS Mobile, SAPConsole and Windows mobile apps to “Mobile Inventory Templates,” and what the process was like for two global companies that have already migrated.
As a maintenance leader, I will always be hardest on the maintenance team as my expectations for preparedness, efficiency, and effectiveness put the onus on the Maintenance team to control their own destiny. Throughout my career, I have been surprised by the number of maintenance managers who allow their teams to be driven by reactive requirements from production or other areas of the business and are unable to attend to planned activities. We all know that at the end of…
Are you familiar with the saying “measure twice, cut once?” This carpenter’s motto can be applied to software implementations like SAP Asset Manager, where the preparation for a project lays the groundwork for success. Once the engagement starts, timelines are often tied to business events, system maintenance schedules, and time-based budgets so the costly mistake of incomplete planning and preparation should be avoided. Measuring twice means understanding the preparation steps needed in all phases of the project – from initiation…
Where are your maintenance parts today? That question turned out to have a costly answer for a large food and beverage production company. With multiple production lines that generate thousands of products daily, the organization understood the importance of keeping these lines up and running, and to ensure this, they kept $50 million worth of MRO inventory on hand. Fast forward to the scenario that every manufacturing organization dreads… The maintenance team needed a $10 part to repair a motor…
Over the years, I’ve encountered more than a few maintenance managers who proudly claim that they have no maintenance backlog. This statement always shocks me and I know with almost certainty that if we walked the plant, we would find something that is nearing failure or has the potential to stop production in the near-term. An accurate, managed maintenance backlog within SAP is critical to an organization seeking to improve efficiency. A key step to this is reviewing and setting…
SAP was created to solve one crucial systems problem: inter-departmental communication in enterprise-level businesses. In other words, SAP centralizes important project, inventory, and fulfillment information along the full supply chain. Without centralized communication, projects can slow or stop, mistakes are made, productivity goes down, and revenue drops because of hiccups along the fulfillment process. That’s why SAP has over 1 million customers around the world. Businesses thrive on great communication and struggle without it. But you don’t need to be…
Implementing a predictive maintenance program (PdM) can be an intense process. Collecting, standardizing, and analyzing data. Developing and refining predictive models. Analyzing results and documenting insights. With so many steps, the amount of time and money invested in a PdM system can quickly add up. This is why a failed predictive maintenance can be devastating for a business. To help organizations avoid this, Sheila Kennedy laid out the top seven factors that lead to a successful predictive maintenance program in…
Time and time again, we have heard from successful, industry leading Maintenance Managers looking for a way to more effectively manage their teams and assets. In this post, we’ve laid out the top 4 features they have been asking for: 1. I want to see the work assigned to all my technicians in one place Having work orders scattered and separated by technician type can be frustrating. By putting all of the work assigned to their technicians in one place,…
Thousands of organizations worldwide have adopted and deployed SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and SAP Mobile Work Manager (WM) to manage maintenance of enterprise wide assets. These applications are intended to improve productivity and equipment uptime while reducing maintenance costs. These incredibly powerful tools have transformed the maintenance process, however, there are functional gaps which inhibit organizations from maximizing return on investment and achieving operational excellence. Challenge One of these gaps is the inability to manage maintenance teams while on-the-go….
IT budgets used to be robust and resources plentiful, remember those days? Many of our customers have been doing more with less as companies look for ways to trim budgets and become even more competitive in a global economy. At the same time, applications and systems are more diverse as companies look for “best of breed” offerings to further their cost saving initiatives. As these two concepts diverge, IT leadership is tasked with maintaining order and using software and systems…