Hot Topics
In May more than 100 people from more than 60 companies will collaborate with the Conference Advisory Team in a series of round table discussions to create the Hot Topics for the Mastering SAP Plant Maintenance Conference Program. Please let us know if you’d like to participate in the round table discussions.
In the meantime, take a look at the Mastering SAP Plant Maintenance Hot Topics for 2011:
Achieving Effective Master Data Management
Achieving Effective Master Data Management
Real insights into successful projects, improving governance, quality, manageability and user friendliness What tools are available, how do they compare and which is best for your business? Successful process strategies for Master Data Management, defining quality information to enable meaningful and consistent reporting Key master data elements required for improved planning results How well structured BOMs can increase productivity and reduce risk The benefi ts of SAP workflow to enforce master data integrity Improvements of data through mobile devices and technology innovations to provide real-time information
Aligning the Business Culture Across Your Organisation
Aligning the Business Culture Across Your Organisation
Achieving true collaboration between the project and your users, understanding how to effectively overcome resistance “Take up with exuberance” - strategies to keep your team engaged and on side and continuing to own their processes long after your project team have left the building Creating systems which your organisations want to embrace Enhancing and personalising portals, improving usability, access and performance Removing the roadblocks to complete a detailed cultural change assessment before changing or implementing tools Sustaining cultural change for years to come
Engaging and Training Your Workforce
Engaging and Training Your Workforce
Identify the right training for your business; SAP training methods - the good and the bad Determining the knowledge level of the workforce and defining training to the required levels Best practices to meet the needs of new and existing staff Achieving management buy-in to committed training programs
Maintenance Scheduling
Maintenance Scheduling
Building a rock-solid understanding of work centre capacity, capacity evaluation and levelling Effective solutions for interfacing SAP and Primavera, Excel or Prometheus Features and capabilities of Multi Resource Scheduling (MRS) How rugged technologies can improve scheduling to the individual tradesperson The best tools for planning and scheduling a successful shutdown
Creating One Truth From Your Reporting and Analysis
Creating One Truth From Your Reporting and Analysis
Transparency across the business with BW, BO and SAP Strategy Management Evaluating the effectiveness of reporting tools and how they can achieve the best outcomes Comparing the requirements of shop floor users with those of executives and selecting the right reporting tool for your users The benefits of using BI when standard PM can’t deliver and how it supports the overall business process Integrating the suite of SAP implementations to benefit in asset reporting, maintenance reporting and capital works delivery
Driving Productivity and Real Time Data With Mobility Solutions
Driving Productivity and Real Time Data With Mobility Solutions
Mobility solutions change the dynamics of your workforce. How companies have succeeded with their solutions by throwing the rule book out the window The choice is endless and surrounded in mystery - which path to take from the endless possibilities? Selecting the best and most appropriate devices and equipment and overcoming resistance to these changes Comparing the efficacy of different devices and designing the user interfaces to provide real business benefits to user interfaces
Successfully Managing Your Contractor Workforce
Successfully Managing Your Contractor Workforce
Planning, execution and analysis of contractor spend with a comparison of the tools that SAP provides Merits of confirmations for contractors vs. service management? Guaranteeing that you get what you’ve paid for and receive only what you asked for!!
Budgeting and Cost Management
Budgeting and Cost Management
Zero-based maintenance budgets Re-forecasting and revising budgets Extracting budget detail from SAP The process of budgeting in SAP: Building and managing a practical maintenance budget MCB in BI (Business Intelligence) Simple, integrated budgeting processes that can be continuously improved Providing expenditure tracking Project Builder for budget development
Creating a Seamless PM-MM Interface
Creating a Seamless PM-MM Interface
Integrated business processes between maintenance/stores/purchasing Material criticality Getting the most from BOMs Lessening the impact of poor material master descriptions Increase worker productivity and reduce risk through well-structured BOMs
Improving Your Usability Experience
Improving Your Usability Experience
Designing simple user interfaces that allow users to quickly perform transactions Quick, easy and low cost interfaces Designing around the user requirements Using the plant structure as the central element Simplifying transactions and commonly repeated tasks Allowing for different levels of display based on user level
Measure and Plan to the Maximum
Measure and Plan to the Maximum
Available types of maintenance plans, features and capabilities Weighing up to get the right balance between performance and time based plans Strategies to produce effective measurements that form the basis of your maintenance plan
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