Workshops and Training Seminars
Choose from these subject-specific and interactive workshops and training seminars (optional and separately bookable). Workshops are available to conference attendees only. Space is limited, so book early!
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WORKSHOP 1: EAM Basics: All the Basics for the Successful Use of the SAP-EAM Solution
WORKSHOP 2: Under the Skin of PAS55: What It Really Takes to Achieve and Sustain Good Asset Management Practices
WORKSHOP 3: Enhancement Pack Technical Workshop
WORKSHOP 4: Analytics and Reporting for SAP EAM
WORKSHOP 5: Mobile Asset Management: A Co-Innovated Solution from SAP and Syclo
WORKSHOP 6: Experience the Best Maintenance Strategy Game!
WORKSHOP 7: Using Core SAP ERP to Balance Demand and Supply: You Have the Tools, it’s Time to Use Them!
TRAINING SEMINAR 1: Master Data School: Unlock the Value of Master Data
TRAINING SEMINAR 2: Maintenance Plan School
WORKSHOP — 1
Sunday, March 27, 2011
WORKSHOP 1
Cost: $195, only available to conference attendees
Time:
9:30 AM – 2:00 PM
EAM Basics: All the Basics for the Successful Use of the SAP-EAM Solution
Kevin Morrow, Solution Manager, SAP Labs, LLC
Dean Fitt, Solution Manager, SAP AG
Rex Ahlstrom , Vice President, Operations, EAM Solutions, SAP Labs, LLC.
Len Harms, Director of Utility and Energy, Vesta Partners, LLC.
The SAP-Centric EAM Community has grown to be the premier source for keeping abreast of proven SAP EAM solutions and the continued success of our peers. As this community matures, we recognize that as with any successful group, there is turnover in organizations as people retire or new talent comes forth. Therefore, in support of our newest attendees and to be a truly comprehensive source for your success, whether new to this community or a seasoned veteran, you don’t want to miss this pre-conference workshop with recognized leaders in SAP presenting on all the basics for successful use of the SAP EAM solution.
This workshop is a no-nonsense approach on how to use the SAP EAM solution to support maintenance work processes and will cover the following topics:
• User Interface, “Which do I use”
• Setting up the technical asset records
• Work management process – initiate to close
• Reporting
Lessons:
• How to get the master data foundation set-up right
• Understand the reporting options and how each supports different users
and requirements
• How SAP supports the work management process
WORKSHOPS — 2-7
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Cost: $795, only available to conference attendees
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Under the Skin of PAS55: What It Really Takes to Achieve and Sustain Good Asset Management Practices
John Woodhouse, CEO & Managing Director, The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd. and
Chair of Faculty, IAM
Karsten Hauschild, Solution Manager, SAP Labs, LLC
Kim McArthur, Manager-Asset Stewardship, Hydro One Networks Inc.
This workshop provides deep insight into the practical implications, business benefits and implementation challenges associated with introducing and sustaining an integrated, whole lifecycle, cost/risk optimized approach to asset management. The PAS55 Standard is a pragmatic and popular checklist of good practices, having been developed by over 50 asset-intensive organizations from 15 industry sectors in 10 countries. It reveals, for example, how good asset management is much more than just good asset care (maintenance) or the correct usage of EAM software systems.
At the heart of good asset management — good decision-making
The workshop summarizes the latest thinking and methods for determining and proving what is really worth spending, and when, in asset investments or replacements, maintenance, spares and other value optimization decisions. It shows how to put a price on the ‘intangibles’, how to break down the vested interest conflicts between departments, and how to apply risk-based decision methods even when available data is limited or uncertain – all in the delivery of greater, transparent and sustainable ‘bang for your buck’.
How can we stop the cycle of 'temporary enthusiasms'?
Delegates will also be shown methods of assessing organization maturity in asset management, and how to develop a robust, sustainable roadmap that sorts out competing priorities, then coordinates and prioritizes realistic improvement activities. John Woodhouse will share from his extensive world-wide experience of implementing PAS55 in different industries and cultures, including the essential ‘enablers’ that convert ‘temporary enthusiasms’ into sustained delivery of real, bottom-line value and performance improvement.
First hand experience of delivering real results
The workshop is highly interactive, allowing delegates to compare experiences and discuss common issues. It also includes case histories of organizations at different stages in the maturity scale — covering ‘where to start?’, ‘how to progress and stabilize?’, and ‘where and how to stretch the limits?’ Kim McArthur of Hydro One in Toronto, for example, will share his experiences of embarking on this journey, and the business benefits that are already emerging.
Enhancement Pack Technical Workshop
Kevin Morrow, Solution Manager, SAP Labs, LLC
SAP provides many methods of adding value to your EAM solution, from new SAP functions delivered via ERP Enhancement Packages to customer-specific development via BAdI’s and user exits. With all the possible techniques used over the life of what is now SAP ERP it has become hard to determine just what is available to the customer and when to use it.
This workshop will provide an overview of the different enhancement techniques available for customer-specific development as well as the Enhancement Package framework delivering new SAP functionality. What is a BAdI and how do I find them? What new business functions are available in Enhancement Packages and how do I find them? If you have ever asked these questions, then this workshop should provide you with the answer.
Lessons:
• What methods are available for extending SAP functionality?
• How do I find the appropriate enhancement content and is it suitable for purpose
• What is an Enhancement Package?
• How to find Enhancement Package content
Analytics and Reporting for SAP EAM
Dean Fitt, Solution Manager, SAP AG
Rob Ericsson, Senior Consultant, Vesta Partners, LLC.
The analytics and reporting options for SAP EAM have been greatly enhanced with the acquisition of BusinessObjects. This workshop will focus on some of the new tools that are now available and show you how they could be used to support asset management.
Topics to be covered:
• Reporting and Analytics in SAP ERP
• SAP BI Business Content for EAM
• Introduction into the SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio
• Deep-dive into the SAP BusinessObjects Toolset including:
- How to build a dashboard with Xcelsius
- How to use Explorer, a tool which combines the searching ease of
Google with analytic capabilities
- How to configure Crystal Reports with EAM List Reports
Mobile Asset Management: A Co-Innovated Solution from SAP and Syclo
Jon Schmidt, SAP Business Development, Syclo
SAP Presenter
Explore the co-innovated SAP and Syclo Mobile Asset Management solution in a product demo. Join this workshop for case studies in various industries and hear the lessons learned. Lastly, learn how to quantifiably build a business case by calculating the productivity and cost savings of mobility to your organization.
Experience the Best Maintenance Strategy Game!
Guy Delahay, Managing Partner, Mainnovation
After two days of listening to the latest developments in maintenance and SAP EAM, it is time to get into action mode again! The Value Driven Maintenance® (VDM) Strategy Game is the most exciting and meaningful workshop you have ever joined! Attendees will be split into teams that will compete to define the best maintenance strategy, delivering the highest cash flows (value) to the company. We will play four rounds. All teams start with the same case study and benchmark information, but every decision the team makes will be entered in the game simulation tool and will lead to new KPI scores and changed positions in the yearly benchmark.
Facilitators will present results per round and will explain why some decisions have more impact than others. You will experience that, depending on your market situation, some best practices have much better results than others. Join us to gain a full understanding of the power of clear KPI’s and benchmarks and how they can be used to achieve better maintenance decisions. You will also learn how the data in your SAP EAM system can be transformed into powerful Maintenance Intelligence by using the VDM® Control Panel. This will provide you with a solid foundation to enhance better decision making.
Using Core SAP ERP to Balance Demand and Supply: You Have the Tools, it’s Time to Use Them!
Joseph Grobler, Global Operations Director, Reveal USA
John Bassi, Senior Process Integrator, Reveal USA
After implementing and bedding down the transactional functionality within SAP, many organizations start looking further afield for additional technology solutions, while users create spreadsheet systems outside of SAP to help with the tactical decision making in the business.
This workshop will reveal the tools and techniques within core SAP that increase end-to-end visibility across the supply chain while strengthening the functional integration. Users will be introduced to standard management tools, monitors, and reports that already exist within core SAP. This functionality is already paid for and can be activated with limited to no configuration. Learn how performance monitors and exception message management have a positive impact on optimization and efficiency targets. This workshop will make it clear that there is more to the solution than the technology. Successful maintenance functions understand this and have benefitted tremendously by this approach.
• What are the main new developments for EAM?
• What is SAP doing about usability?
• Live demonstrations!
TRAINING SEMINARS — 1-2
Wednesday, March 30 & Thursday, March 31
Cost: $1,295*
Time: Wed: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Thurs: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Master Data School: Unlock the Value of Master Data
Norm Poynter, Manager, Consulting, NLAS Possibilities Inc.
Tim Stovall, Corporate Reliability Manager, Retired, Nova Chemicals
Tony Ciliberti, Principal Engineer, Reliability Dynamics LLC
Equipment Master Data is a critical function for enabling your SAP (or any CMMS) system to contribute maximum value of your enterprise asset management strategy. Without a master data plan, process, and standards, your company will struggle to control costs and achieve positive reliability results. With proper planning, preparation, a data integrity program, business process standards, and master data ownership strategies in place, your success ratio will skyrocket.
This beginner course is a practical, hands-on, interactive learning environment taught by two leading experts in managing master data programs for the SAP PM module, from planning, to implementation, to sustainability — it is all geared to set you up for success.
The course objectives construct the three platforms of Equipment Master Data and will allow you to unlock the Value of Master Data through:
Asset Information • Business Rules • Governance
Maintenance Plan School
Jodie Perry, President, Aisling Solutions Group, LLC
Designed for the beginner and intermediate SAP PM user, this workshop will focus on understanding the three key elements included in SAP Plans – Task Lists, Maintenance Items, and Maintenance Plans — and how they can be designed and created in SAP PM to automate the planning and scheduling of any repetitive maintenance activity. Task Lists will be reviewed as an independent element for Job Plans (Preplans) and a key object included in all Plans. Join this two-day, interactive workshop and learn how to design and organize a library of great plans utilizing recognized best practices that can deliver increased ROI through productivity gains and automation.
*Cost of training seminars is $1,295 in conjunction with SAP-Centric EAM conference registration. Cost for training seminars without SAP-Centric EAM registration is $1,595.
