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Give us your SAP Asset Management challenges and we’ll provide a solution to solve the most common issues facing Asset Managers. We implement at your pace, irrespective of your SAP journey.
You’re expected to cut costs and drive KPIs.
But how can you do either without changing your maintenance strategy? Time-intensive tasks drain productivity and resources, preventing transparency and growth. PM Eleven can pinpoint inefficiencies and maintenance over-servicing and generate cost saving actionable recommendations, enabling your business to accelerate and thrive.
You need accurate insights in real-time….do it natively in SAP!
We will help you solve your Asset Management challenges.
Automate Manual Processes in Printing Work Orders
The most successful businesses use extensive automation instead of manual processes. Digitally transform time-consuming tasks to solve common challenges like:
- Printing Work Orders manually
- Attachments that must be printed manually
- Version concerns with your current solution (cloud, S4HANA, public cloud)
Close the compliance loop, and digitally attach your Work Orders back into SAP
Your business has a license to operate, but what if the proof of work-completion cannot be found? You need to automate the attachment of any printed document back into your relevant SAP object (work order or other):
- Filing Work Orders manually
- Missing documents or hard to find?
Maximise Data Accuracy….through a workbench for Bill Of Material (BOM) management
Your business relies on managing, ordering and fitting spares to equipment. Ensure your Bills of Materials are linked accurately to their “place of use” (equipment) and therefore maximising your opportunity for data accuracy by:
- Ensuring the BOM lists the correct materials used on your Work Orders
- Removing significant inefficiencies and the potential for incorrect parts being assigned to the job
- Ensuring you have better data leading to better analytics and better decision making!
Reduce Planning inefficiencies
Its imperative to have the right Tasks on your Work Orders, but when SAP makes it too difficult to find the correct Task List, the Work Order often ends up being planned over & over again. Solve this and other challenges like
- Potential safety risk of not doing the task correctly or with the right parts, labor or instructions
- Remove unproductive time re-planning the job each time
- Additional costs if you get the wrong parts ordered for the job
Manage Day and Night work schedules
Too often in SAP, excessive time is spent scheduling day and night shifts and not monitoring the completion of timesheets. All businesses could use a better interface to manage “capacities” in SAP. The problems solved include:
- Ensuring personnel complete their time confirmations
- Setting capacities in one easy step (for Day or Night shift & for contractors)
- Ensure you have better capacity understanding leading into planning work
Time wasted doing manual capacity levelling
A lot of capacity levelling is done in Excel, so reduce risk and double-handling of data by moving this into SAP. There is always a lot of wasted time and effort changing Work Order dates manually in SAP based on updated capacities. Solve this and other challenges like:
- Potential safety risk of scheduling the wrong work for the wrong business resources
- Remove unproductive time manually updated Work Order start dates
- Ensure sufficient work is scheduled for the resources available on each shift
Simplify your focus on the right work
Having trouble with getting a clear view of the scheduled and unscheduled work? See all your week’s work in the single dashboard and direct your focus on the right work. The problems solved include:
- Understand when work is rescheduled and why!
- See break-in (unscheduled) work and make easy decisions
- Ensure you have a line of sight of what work is planned for the week
Manually calculating your Maintenance KPIs & Benchmarks?
Automate your KPI’s directly out of SAP and consume them in your Business Intelligence (BI/BO) tool of choice. Too often, customers spend a large amount of time generating, compiling, manipulating and presenting KPI’s which should come automatically from SAP. Solve this and other problems like:
- Risk associated with multiple databases or external extracts
- Remove the possibility for manipulation of KPIs
- Remove the unproductive time manually creating KPI’s or extracting data from SA
Work done on the wrong date
Problems with incorrect timing of SAP Work Orders often occur because of inaccurate estimates. Incorrect Estimates leads to Work is done at the wrong time. We solve this problem and others:
- Reduce the inaccuracies causing work orders to be generated on the wrong date
- Reduce costs as a result of inefficiencies
- Ensure you have a line of sight of what work is due!
Over-servicing or Under-servicing?
In SAP, once work orders are generated, they don’t have their date revised based on changing conditions or new measurements. Solve this and other problems like:
- Doing work out of sequence
- Completion is not taken into account when there are multiple open calls
- Remove the necessity for Maintenance Plan restarts!
Leverage Machine Learning from Equipment?
Collecting the data from machines, but not using it? Companies fail to utilise key data to drive maintecance schedules to drive real dollar savings. We solve this problem and others including:
- Ignoring incorrect work order call-dates set on the wrong date
- Failing to take up the challenge to move from time based to usage based Maintenance Plans
- Leveraging Machine Learning predictions to take your business to the next level in terms of maintenance servicing or reviews!
Challenges budgeting for Maintenance within SAP?
In SAP, who budgets using the SAP Maintenance Plans for preventive or corrective work? No-one!. This can ow change if you have these problems:
- Not aligning your SAP Maintenance Strategy with Finance Budgets
- Taking what Finance provides in terms of the overall budget, and not linking back to scheduled work
- Not seeing the change in any driver (rates, frequency, methods, usage, etc)
Not accurately dispatching work to Mobile Apps?
Dispatching the right work at the right time is critical. If you’re using a Mobility solution, then you need this SAP app to solve your dispatch issues. We solve this problem and others including:
- Dealing with Cut-in emergency work and updating quickly to mobile apps
- Failing to receive the work on time
- Leveraging the benefits of completing work in the field!
Merging, Acquiring, Devolving - What about your Maintenance History?
Incredible effort is focused on Finance, Sales and Payables in the event of a Merger, Acquisition or Devolution of a business. Who focuses on the Maintenance data?. This can be a major problem which leads to:
- Loss of history of historical work orders
- Major rework to create, update and/or restart Maintenance Plans
- Missing critical data (e.g. BOMs, Task Lists, Catalogue links, etc)
Are your Stocktakes quickly and easily updated in SAP?
Often SAP users rely on manual processes to update SAP with stocktake information. This report can help focus your energy in the right place and update the stocktake information in one easy app. This alleviates these problems:
- Wasted time updating stocktakes in SAP
- Failing to comply with mandatory stocktakes (licence to operate)
- Taking the opportunity to deal with obsolete items in your warehouse(s)
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