While SAP has some great functionality to plan your Maintenance work, the practicality of getting the right information for Manning and materials at your fingertips to do it efficiently is challenging (to say the least!).
The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler needs to collate multiple pieces of critical information before it is possible to plan with any confidence.
Depending on the site, you may need:
- Available people/roles capacity
- Night and day shift information
- Operations availability/schedule for equipment
- Contractors availability and information
- Outstanding work by Equipment, priority and date
- Gross and net hours (e.g. allowing for training, downtime, inspections, meetings, safety reviews, pre-starts, etc)
Doing all that in standard SAP (PM) is possible, but hugely time-consuming and with huge risks for the operation.
Needless to say, any small % increase in operational uptime pays its way!
Manning Solution for SAP ® Software
At PM Eleven, we have developed cost-saving solutions within the Works Management arena. Our solutions can save a large amount of idle time for the equipment and maintenance team, but also deliver a significant efficiency boost of 30% for the Planner/Scheduler
PM Eleven Works Management suite compares gross and net hours available for a supervisor, giving them the capability to easily plan their capacity by shift.
It allows comparison of actual hours versus planned hours at an individual level, thereby encouraging the accurate and reliable capture of actual hours.
Enabling Planners/Schedulers to capacity plan resources at a shift level; it allows them capacity level by moving Work Order Operations in, out or within a scheduled week simply by dragging and dropping operations. (real-time).
Final Thoughts
Call PM Eleven now to see our suite of productivity tools or to discuss your options in using SAP.
See our Manning Solution here, request a free demonstration of the solution here.
