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SAP TIPS AND TRICKS
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WITH MORE THAN 183,000 companies
in 130 countries using SAP, it's hard
to imagine how big business survived
without this German-based software
company. However, the world of S-A-P,
(that's right, never refer to it as "SAP"
if you want to hang out with the cool
crowd), is filled with many tips and tricks
that can make your life and your business run more efficiently and make your
workforce more effective.
To have a useful tool that will give
you the results that you need, measuring
yourself with different sets of key
performance indicators (KPIs) is the most
important step to understanding the data
being entered into SAP. While KPIs can
be measured in several ways, we are going
to talk about some of the most critical and
commonly used metrics in the plantmaintenance realm.
Measuring your maintenance costs
against your total plant ERV (estimated
replacement value) can give you one of
the best indicators of your maintenance
costs versus the best of the best. To do
this, we take the total cost of maintenance
per month and divide that by your
ERV. Industry standards say that the
maintenance spend should not exceed 2%
of your ERV. Furthermore, your MRO
(maintenance, repair, and operations)
material inventory should never exceed
0.25% of your total ERV.
Other metrics that are important for
an organization to track using SAP are
daily work-scheduling efficiency and
job-accuracy estimations. Scheduling
efficiency is the product of the (total
hours scheduled/available labor hours)
multiplied by (scheduled hours worked/
total hours scheduled).
Estimating accuracy will reveal
how well your planning organization
estimates and plans work. As shown in
the accompanying screen shot, if a job is
not estimated properly, or at all, you will
never have an understanding of scope
creep, discovery work, extra material
cost, or other identifiers that could affect
the final work cost. Once the work order
is released, the estimated cost, in many
cases, cannot be recalculated or added
to, leaving the organization without a
baseline for the initial estimate of the
work.
Understanding your maintenance costs
will give you the necessary information
you need to properly forecast your budget.
By using these KPIs, you will begin
your journey down the road to success
by ensuring you have quality data in your
SAP system, along with the knowledge to
help you work smarter, not harder. MT
If a job is not estimated
properly, or at all, you will
never have an understanding
of scope creep, discovery work,
extra material cost, or other
identifiers that could affect the
final work cost.
The editors of Maintenance
Technology are pleased to
introduce this new, monthly,
Reliability and Maintenance
Center column we're calling
SAP Tips and Tricks. In
each issue, Kristina Gordon
will open doors for SAP
users to help you maximize
benefits from one of the more
powerful tools available to
reliability and maintenance
professionals.
Gordon has worked for
more than 10 years in an
array of pharma, chemicals,
and polymers businesses that
use SAP as their CMMS.
She has conducted 13 full
life-cycle implementations.
Gordon's specialty is working
with plant maintenance,
although she has also
implemented the MM, FICO,
PP-PI, and PS modules. As a
functional lead, she has vast
experience with configuration
and development of
functional specifications for
the technical development
of custom programs. In
each issue she will explore
timesaving keystrokes,
reports, and basic use of the
system that so many of you
have implemented in your
operations.
-Gary L. Parr
editorial director
Kristina Gordon is SAP Program Consultant at the DuPont, Sabine River Works plant in West Orange, TX.
If you have SAP questions, send them to editors@maintenancetechnology.com and we'll forward them to Kristina.
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AUGUST 2016
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Maintenance Technology August 2016
Editorial
Uptime
On The Floor
Accepting The Challenge
Advanced Software In The Jungle
Put Efficiency in MRO Storerooms
Rethink Overall Vibration Monitoring
Reliable Pumping Supplement
Practical Oil Analysis: Why and What For?
SAP Tips and Tricks
Maximize Ethernet
Compressed Air Care
Nurture STEM Learning
Heed Drive-Belt Temps
Internet of Things
ISO 55000
Products
Showcase
Ad Index
Final Thought
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