Effective Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) strategies and techniques can ensure that organizations looking to improve asset use and productivity can reduce costs and increase their competitive advantage in today’s global environment. The EAM solutions from SAP provide integrated end-to-end capabilities for managing corporate assets across all phases of the asset lifecycle, along with real-time visibility into asset performance and maintenance.

The educational sessions in this track offer proven strategies from leading companies and SAP experts that demonstrate how to leverage the Enterprise Asset Management solutions from SAP to optimize promise-to-delivery processes, implement effective maintenance strategies, increase asset readiness and availability, utilize mobile technology to extend workforce utilization, integrate planning processes with maintenance work order planning and scheduling, and effectively track materials across an extended business network.

Other key learning takeaways include:

• How creative use of the SAP Enterprise Portal can help solve both usability and accessibility issues
• What strategies drive maintenance cost reduction
• How asset information management and master data influence maintenance strategies and execution
• Why MRP planning is a maintenance best practice in terms of total work order integration
• How to increase workforce productivity and on-schedule/on-budget product delivery
• How to gain significant business advantage from Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

Highlights include:

Join International Paper for a look at how they have been able to bring Business Intelligence (BI) tools to their EAM communities around the globe, and maximize their investment in BI. Key discussion points include how to develop realistic requirements, integrate SAP equipment history with cost data, partner with EAM and IT professionals, and train the end-user community.

Hear why DuPont uses MRP planning as a best practice to plan and schedule maintenance repair and operating supplies. The presentation demonstrates how the MRP planning processes are totally integrated with maintenance work order planning and scheduling, and covers MRO best practices and change management issues needed to be successful.

Join SOLUTIA for an overview of how effective planning and scheduling can impact your organization’s ability to achieve your maintenance and asset management goals. This presentation introduces you to some best practices and provides ideas on how to best utilize SAP to support and enhance your planning and scheduling program using the core SAP system.

Join the SAP Value Engineering team to hear the latest results from the joint SAP and ASUG EAM Benchmarking initiative. The session will present an overview of the survey results and help attendees understand how different organizations are using Enterprise Asset Management as a critical driver of increasing market competitiveness. Session participants can evaluate EAM processes in terms of key performance indicators, planning, scheduling and work execution best practices and compare their own company’s performance with the ASUG benchmark group.

Other key topics addressed in this year’s program include:

• CAD Integration for Optimizing Maintenance Processes
• Document Linking for Notification and Equipment History
• EAM Basics
• Fleet Management
• Leveraging a “Duty-Task-Needs” Analysis to Develop a Customized Technical Training Program
• Planning and Scheduling
• Plant and Factory Maintenance Solutions
• SAP Material Masters