Hot Topics
The depth and breadth of the SAP-Centric EAM conference content is a result of six months of careful research and development. EAM Professionals from more than 60 organizations across the United States have collaborated with the SAP-Centric EAM advisory team to create the Hot Topics. The program will cover discussions around many of the following:
Master Data
Real insights into successful projects, improving governance, quality, manageability, and user friendliness
What tools are available and how they compare
Successful process strategies for Master Data Management
How well-structured BOMs can increase productivity and reduce risk
The benefit 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 Organization
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 continuing their processes long after your project team has left the building
Enhancing and personalizing 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
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
Building a rock-solid understanding of work center capacity, capacity evaluation, and leveling
Effective solutions for interfacing SAP and Primavera, Excel or Prometheus
Features and capabilities of Multi-Resource Scheduling (MRS)
Creating One Truth from Your Reporting and Analysis
Evaluating the effectiveness of reporting tools, and how they can achieve the best outcomes
The benefits of using Business Intelligence (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
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 efficiency of different devices and designing the user interfaces to provide real business benefits
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
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
Simple, integrated budgeting processes that can be continuously improved
Providing expenditure tracking
Project Builder for budget development
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
Increasing worker productivity and reducing risk through
well-structured BOMs
Improving Your Usability Experience
Designing simple user interfaces that allow users to quickly
perform transactions
Quick, easy, and low cost interfaces
Simplifying transactions and commonly repeated tasks
Allowing for different levels of display based on user level
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
