The Business Of Maintenance & Supply Chain In Guaranteeing Superior Performance

Having spent the last 17 years as an active professional interacting with folks in maintenance, supply chain and other departments its become evident that while some results are generated there is a lot being left on the table which could be to an assets advantage. Stakeholders in any business venture focus on maximizing profits alongside other goals and would make decisions with these ends in mind. Now imagine professionals adopting the model of thinking like actual stakeholders which they are or simpler terms like business owners. How would this change their actions and decision making. Would their actions remain the same as is or take a different trajectory. In this presentation we take an unusual dive in distilling business school insights into maintenance and supply chain processes with real life examples where this integration resulted in superior people and asset performance. The goal is to create a paradigm shift in the viewpoint of attendees from employees and professionals to stakeholders in the business the work in.

In this presentation we take an unusual dive in distilling business school insights into maintenance and supply chain processes with real life examples where this integration resulted in superior people and asset performance. The goal is to create a paradigm shift in the viewpoint of attendees from employees and professionals to stakeholders in the business the work in.

What Vaccine Resistance and The Western Cape Water Crisis can Teach us about Successful Technology Roll Outs

Using stories of the vaccine resistance and the Western Cape water crisis, Mike Perk will help the audience to understand the psychology behind resistance, why technology roll outs are often subject to too much change management, and the fact we are naturally wired for adaptability in these situations. Mike will ultimately share a practical framework that can then be used to support your initiatives and provide a simpler way for moving your people forward.

1) Technology roll out, could be simpler than you are currently making it
2) A systemic framework for viewing change
3) A takeaway planner to help your next initiative

Changing Dynamics in Service and Maintenance: SAP Solution Strategy to Deliver Service Innovation and Enhance Asset Performance

Learn about market dynamics impacting SAP customers in maintenance and service, and SAP solution strategy, innovations and roadmap priorities with customer examples.

Live with SAP S/4HANA—What’s Next?

Fairfax Water went live with SAP S/4HANA in 2021 in less than six months. Since then, Fairfax Water has examined how to use better analytics provided by SAP S/4HANA. The company has also started its journey toward using SAP Fiori and activating enhancements.

Learn how to start your SAP S/4HANA transformation program
Lessons learned from Fairfax Water Life after migrating to SAP S/4HANA

Mitigating Risk and Improving Performance: The Road Ahead with SAP Asset Performance Management

SAP Asset Performance Management (APM) combines SAP's existing Asset Strategy & Performance Management and Predictive Asset Insight solutions with a new codeline built on a common data model with S/4HANA to ensure end-to-end closed loop IAM process integration. What’s on the road map for SAP APM in the coming years? What powerful new features will be added with each release? How can customers and partners co-innovate in APM? When should you start your SAP APM journey?

1) Scope of APM
2) Integration across IAM and with S/4HANA and
3) Roadmap

Understanding SAP S/4HANA Solutions for Data Migration

SAP provides different approaches for Data Migration in a S/4HANA implementation. There is a best option for each type of project and the decision to use the right one for data migration will directly impact on the implementation project. Let's understand what are the tools available and in which scenarios each one will be the best pick.

• Types of S/4HANA implementation
• Data Migration tools
• What to consider when picking the Data Migration tool

Using BOMs to Optimize Planning and Scheduling

After almost 32 years of service, Jeff Smith retired from Fairfax Water. After taking a summer sabbatical, Jeff was hired at Loudoun Water to become LW Manager of Master Data Programs. Jeff quickly realized a quick win to better optimize planning and scheduling at LW by implementing Bill of Materials. Using his change management experience Jeff found some key business users that were looking for a better way to maximize their SAP system. In a short three-month period, LW now has over 1,000 pieces of equipment that now have BOMs assigned. Using standard SAP transactions, using already established Master Data Governance Process in place at LW, Jeff was able to find the data he needed to implement BOMs at Loudoun Water.

Lessons Learned:
•Find key business users to help champion this change
•Hold small workshops or meetings to win over key management personnel
•Validate and verify data
•Bill of Materials can make planning more efficient

Going Live With Standard SAP Asset Manager Mobile App

As part of the S/4 implementation project, Sunwater was looking for a mobile solution to help our field staff manage Work Orders, raise Notifications, complete Work Instructions, book time and enter readings on Measuring Points. The mandate for the project was to go with a standard solution and SAP Asset Manager was selected. This presentation will follow the journey from design through to implementation with a focus on “what we know now that we wish we knew then”. Hear about the challenges faced during implementation and post go live, and what we did to overcome them. The presentation will also include a live demo of Asset Manager at Sunwater, functionality including:
• navigating the asset hierarchy to view asset details and create a Notification with a photo attached
• filling in a check list on a Work Instruction and uploading to the Work Orders/Notifications
• starting and completing an Operation including entering time
• entering measurement readings

Enabling A Resilient And Sustainable Supply Chain

Over the past 2 years, the risks and shortfalls in our global supply chains have been front and center as companies looked to reduce risk and increase resiliency. As we look to the future, sustainability will join resiliency as a main theme. Supply Chains are now seen as central to business survival, success, and growth, rather than an opportunity to just reduce costs. This session will discuss the key enablers of a resilient and sustainable supply chain.

What is driving SAP strategy for supply chain management solutions

Thirty Years of ERP (SAP) - What Have We Learned?

Today most firms have or are implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Alan was first introduced to the ERP concept in 1991 when he was asked to serve on a team to assess the available hardware-software platforms for ERP and recommend one for BASF. The consensus decision was to acquire the SAP R2 ERP platform. Through the years BASF has evolved through SAP R3, APO and now S/4 HANA. Alan spent over 25 years supporting implementation of the ERP concepts and software as a consultant and educator. In this presentation he will share lessons learned, barriers to overcome and keys to success. The content is full of real-life examples. Participants will leave better prepared to improve the use of ERP (SAP) processes and systems.

- How to avoid some of the major pitfalls of ERP implementation and use.
- Some tips for scoping and supporting the ERP evolution.
- Examples of balancing people-process-technology in the quest for ERP excellence.

Structural Assets Master Data Development

Overtime, structural assets have been managed through a reactive maintenance approach where attention is given to evident defects leading a lot of capital required to address the structural findings. Debswana Diamond Company has since adopted a more proactive approach towards structural assets maintenance due to a challenge of aging structures in its mines. To achieve the baseline for proactive maintenance, which would form a good platform for predictive maintenance and use of technology, data quality proved to be a challenge hence a quest to develop structural assets master data and integrate structural assets into company maintenance management system. The company utilizes SAP as the Site Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software where Plant Maintenance (PM) module is used for maintenance management and structural assets were not well represented as the predominant maintenance was for equipment We first had to put necessary governance and guidelines in place to ensure consistent implementation and onboarding with alignment to requirements for an asset management system as outlined in ISO 55000 to 55002. Necessary training and change manage is in place to ensure continued utilization of new Structural Integrity Maintenance System (SIMS). In addressing the Structural Master data, a structural asset register was developed by breaking down structures within the plant to practical asset groups as well as maintenance blocks, sub-structures and then elements through established Functional Location (FLocs) for practical inspection and maintenance planning in SAP. The FLocs thus became the foundation for asset critical analysis, material quantification, development of maintenance plans, tactics, strategy & schedule location for Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), integrated with the life cycle cost forecast as an output from practical condition survey data. Structural asset register serves as a foundation for SAP integration with digital space (SAP 3D) and predictive maintenance tools to enable the company’s structural maintenance and rehabilitation life of mine program

1. Integrating Structural Assets into maintenance management system
2. Determining Structural Asset Criticality
3. Development of Structural Maintenance Tactics in alignment Life Cycle Costin (LCC)

Making Sure Your Inventory Optimisation Projects Succeed: A Collection of Case Studies

As you tackle working capital improvement you will encounter reasons why inventory levels should not be touched. Your optimisation success will be determined by how you can convince those around you that stocks are too high. They will also need to trust your stock level recommendations. For this you will need data, and SAP has plenty of it!

This data is easily accessed and collated to build compelling optimisation recommendations. You will need to marry this data with tribal knowledge that is woven into your company’s DNA, which is often linked to painful memories of a time the plant stood because parts were not available.
In this talk we’ll use a collection of 15 years of case studies to:
1. Walk through the kinds of resistance you will encounter (using real-life examples).
2. Offer insights on the SAP data you can use to build working capital improvement storylines.
3. Share tips on how to shift the hearts and minds of those attached to having warehouses and yards full of stock.
4. Demonstrate how to use SAP’s working capital tools to track progress.
5. Cover steps to ensure sustainable working capital improvement.

More With Less. Managing By Exception In The Maintenance World

Denbury is an independent oil and natural gas company with operations focused in two key operating areas: the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. 18 months ago, we made the decision to optimize the ROI in our SAP MM and EAM investment by learning how to use the standard functionality we already owned. This is the story of how Denbury utilized standard MRP exception messages to drive our daily processes. The results were staggering (and surprising).

• Cross Department Alignment
• Company Aligned Prioritization of Work
• Inventory Guidelines & Reduction of Dead Stock

You’ll learn how to find and use Standard MRP Exception Messages, and get a high-level look at Supply and Demand in standard SAP. Justin will also share the key KPI’s Denbury use to measure success.

More With Less. Managing By Exception In The Maintenance World

Denbury is an independent oil and natural gas company with operations focused in two key operating areas: the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. 18 months ago, we made the decision to optimize the ROI in our SAP MM and EAM investment by learning how to use the standard functionality we already owned. This is the story of how Denbury utilized standard MRP exception messages to drive our daily processes. The results were staggering (and surprising).

• Cross Department Alignment
• Company Aligned Prioritization of Work
• Inventory Guidelines & Reduction of Dead Stock

You’ll learn how to find and use Standard MRP Exception Messages, and get a high-level look at Supply and Demand in standard SAP. Justin will also share the key KPI’s Denbury use to measure success.

Why Asset Management is Key to Sustainability

No organization today can neglect Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which includes Sustainability. CSR is integrated into most organizations’ vision, mission, and strategy. It’s also a factor in Asset Management decision making. Organizations striving to provide Assurance about achieving their objectives face risks including: environmental impacts, staff safety, product quality, asset integrity, and the like. All of these may impact businesses negatively.

As a consequence, Asset Management (as balancing performance, cost, and risk) needs to support the organization's corporate Sustainability goals.

In the presentation, it will be pointed out how the SAP EAM software portfolio, supporting the discipline of Asset Management, can help with this. Diving into various topics, like Asset Performance Management, Asset Investment Planning, Environment, Health & Safety, Compliance Reporting, up to Maintenance Execution, the holistic role of Asset Management will become clear. The value proposition for Sustainability comes from integrating respective data into each and every business process. Given the integrated nature of Asset Management, the underlying paradigm is no different.

Being able to come up with a model for jointly realizing on the goals of Sustainability and Asset Management requires a coherent Digital Twin of the asset system and consequently the digitalization of the respective business processes.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Within Your Planning Cycle Using SAP's IBP Optimizer

We will walk you through the future of optimizing your supply chain for sustainability. Our organization has been putting a lot of effort into a sustainability optimizer, using SAP IBP's functionality. Reducing your carbon footprint can become a priority amongst supply chains in the same way we would think of cost or capacity optimization today.

1. The future of how optimizer engines can be leveraged. 2. Finding sustainability options within your supply chain. 3. Supply chains ability to minimize carbon footprints.

TM Best Practices in Practice

In this session I will cover the tips and tricks about adopting the TM Best Practices, shortcut to configure and execute a basic end-to-end scenario and lessons learned from Green & Brown field implementations.

• TM Best Practices,
• Tips & Tricks
• Lessons Learned in a Green/Brown Field implementations.

For Business, Blockchain Needs Identities

"Immutable" trust is provided by public blockchain. Rather than having a person witness, the internet can serve as that witness. However, so far, the majority of cryptocurrency and blockchain advances have relied on anonymous wallets. And it isn't going to work in the business world. Come find out why!

Although blockchain operates in a "decentralized" environment, business can only be centralized. It means that bridges must be built in order for this to happen. Wallets are now being overlooked in the business dialogue. They are, nevertheless, the foundation for making this happen. Whether or not it is used, the blockchain disruption brought on by the ability to be a "witness" to transaction is here to stay.

Viking Spirit: A Nordic S/4HANA Saga

An overview will be given from a Greenfield & Brownfield S/4HANA implementation. e.g.: setup of governance structures, reporting cadence, data migration, testing, cutover, go live, early life support, change management, role mapping

1. Master data migration ECC -> S/4HANA
2. Change Management in S/4HANA
3. Stakeholder Management in S/4HANA

Benchmarking Your Business Against The Industry

Discover a free benchmark KPI solution which can be downloaded from the internet and installed to your SAP system. Look into the current Benchmark KPIs and discuss why those metrics may be important to your business. See where you can access an online Power BI dashboard and how you can compare your company to others across or within varying industries and countries.

Where they can get a free Benchmark KPI solution and evaluate themselves against others in the Industry and contribute to future benchmark KPIs

Power BI – A Powerful Tool That Can Be Used By Business Operations For More Than Reporting

Power BI is a great tool for reporting but when business operations know how to use it; it can do so much more. We used it to improve the accuracy of our Maintenance Plans and Items. See how we developed a report to show us which items were missing, duplicate and linked to plans that are not started. Get insights in using Power BI yourself and watch our live demonstration.

Get a basic understanding of how Power BI works. Learn how to use your business rules to identify problems on your maintenance plans and items. See how Power BI can be used by business operations with Excel formula skills and a bit of help from Google

Power BI – A Powerful Tool That Can Be Used By Business Operations For More Than Reporting

Power BI is a great tool for reporting but when business operations know how to use it; it can do so much more. We used it to improve the accuracy of our Maintenance Plans and Items. See how we developed a report to show us which items were missing, duplicate and linked to plans that are not started. Get insights in using Power BI yourself and watch our live demonstration.

Get a basic understanding of how Power BI works. Learn how to use your business rules to identify problems on your maintenance plans and items. See how Power BI can be used by business operations with Excel formula skills and a bit of help from Google

Driving Real Change With Fiori: Measuring Maintenance Performance By Having Everyone On The Same Page

S/4 HANA is a big step for most businesses but how many are truly using the power of HANA? Post implementation at AGL, aligning to a standard maintenance process and driving change was very challenging. Each site was measuring maintenance performance differently as well as using many different tools. Over the past 2 years AGL has been on a journey with the site people delivering a pipeline of improvements in S/4 HANA. Among these improvements are suite of SAP Fiori UI5 real-time embedded analytic apps that measure maintenance performance as well as other common metrics in EAM.
This session will show how we achieved a common set of apps to aligned maintenance performance across all AGL sites as well as technical steps on how we utilized the EAM data in S/4 HANA to build these Fiori apps.

• Understand the business requirements and understand your target audience.
• Listen but be brave to shape and lead the way forward.
• Always think ‘What else can I do with this app?’ You will be surprised how flexible these apps can be.

Cloud Master Data Quality, Governance, and Lifecycle Management

Learn how Prospecta’s SaaS-based MDO platform delivers trustworthy, reliable data by mediating, managing, and governing core SAP master data shared by multiple business domains. Topics include cleansing and deduplication, enhancement and enrichment, cataloguing and classifying, as well as providing improved descriptions and taxonomies for both existing and new master data across the supply chain.

Enterprise Asset Management - Innovative SAP Standard Solutions For The FMCG Industry, A Successful Case Study

In 2021 we've done a massive implementation on our Plant Maintenance side for KWV. There was a big underutilization of data. Together with months of planning, our budget was severely constrained due to all the covid limitations. This has forced us to develop very innovative systems, processes, data governance protocols, reporting and to this end, a year later, effective forecasting models. I’ve realized that many companies in the FMCG sector has gone under severe constraints, not only budget, but resources, skills and many of these companies would benefit from ‘as close to’ automated systems as possible. These key aspects has been our focus point. Let me take you through our successful implementation. Show you how we’ve setup everything from data integrity, configuration, master data governance protocols, periodic reporting, scheduled maintenance, building history, non-conformance benchmarks, document management, staff distribution, dashboards and ultimately an intelligent forecasting model not only for the working environment, but the financial/budget sector as well. All of this, with standard SAP & Excel. A self-sustaining, workable solution & successful case study for you and your business.

A full front-to-back self sustaining SAP plant maintenance system. Intelligent report and governance systems. Successful forecasting and future planning.

Live with SAP S/4HANA—What’s Next?

Fairfax Water went live with SAP S/4HANA in 2021 in less than six months. Since then, Fairfax Water has examined how to use better analytics provided by SAP S/4HANA. The company has also started its journey toward using SAP Fiori and activating enhancements.

Learn how to start your SAP S/4HANA transformation program
Lessons learned from Fairfax Water Life after migrating to SAP S/4HANA

Demand Planning In A Post Pandemic World, Planning When History No Longer Predicts The Future

For decades the foundation of a good statistical forecast is a solid set of cleansed historical data. The pandemic has ended all of that. For the foreseeable future due to the pandemic and related supply chain disruptions you can no longer rely on history for future demand. This session will walk through the many different methods today's demand planners are using to model future demand when history is no longer reliable.

- Statistical forecasting will be a challenge for a long time - Three are methods other than standard statistical forecasting to support forecast planning. - Forward looking algorithms like demand sensing are becoming more common to react to trends as they are happening

Always Going Live

As part of the Absa Group, I have been implementing SAP across our amazing continent for the last eight years. Join me as I take a trip through memory lane and share five key lessons, I have learnt implementing a new general ledger and procure to pay solutions for our banking, insurance and corporate entities.

What Is Required To Be Successful In Enterprise Asset Management

What must you know? - Know, Understand and Manage the Business Risk by Managing the Inherent Failure Mechanisms and the applied operational conditions that initiate and drive the Inherent Failure Mechanisms.

What is required to be successful in Enterprise Asset Management?
STEMP’s
• S – Structure, Systems, Strategies
• T – Tools, Techniques
• E – Employees (Skill, Ability, Application, Attitude)
• M – Methodologies, Methods, Management
• P – Processes, Procedures, Practices, Policies

How is it implemented?
The FOUR PILLARS OF Enterprise Asset Management.

How Intelligent and Collaborative Enterprises Make Their Supply Chains Resilient and Sustainable

This session will highlight a framework on how visibility and simulation capabilities are the foundation for an intelligent, collaborative and sustainable enterprise.
Overcome vulnerabilities of your supply chain, improve customer service and differentiate against your competition.

Empowering Organizations with Intelligent Service and Asset Management and New Mobile Personas

Mobile apps from SAP help asset- and customer-intensive enterprises face complex maintenance and service challenges. The SAP® Service and Asset Manager mobile app helps your maintenance and field service technicians work more safely, productively, and independently – whether they are installing new equipment, servicing or maintaining, inspecting, and repairing existing assets. By making these mission-critical processes consistently integrated and available anywhere, SAP Service and Asset Manager transforms the worker experience for these high-value field activities working in a single thread of information from SAP EAM to mobile apps.

• Transforming operations by getting the most out of SAP Plant Maintenance
• Simplifying work execution and solution usability with a mobile EAM module
• Managing high-value spare parts through integrated material/warehouse processes

SAP Field Service Management: Improve Your Operations' Visibility, Efficiency, Data Quality and Financials

Field service has become not only a critical factor when it comes to the overall customer experience, but a key competitive differentiator in many industries, including discrete manufacturing, industrial machinery, medical equipment, telecommunications, utilities, and home and office appliances. Creating and managing an agile, high-performing field service organization is a huge opportunity! Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of field service operations and enhancing customer experiences depend on streamlined and automated processes, smooth data flow, and increased transparency. By connecting, coordinating, and standardizing field service procedures and its information, and then tapping into advanced analytics and functionality, including artificial intelligence, you can quickly and accurately respond to customers service requests. You can speed resolution of issues while keeping costs down and improving productivity and results. The intelligent scheduling and dispatching features supports your needs and helps your company to be agile and maintain visibility when it comes to the complex process of planning service execution. Include your subcontractors seamlessly in your work planning & execution and reduce your carbon footprint with optimized route planning. Field service technicians get assignment information in advance, so they are better prepared. Flexible mobile tools, including knowledge bases, guided service workflow procedures, and intelligent smartforms, help solve issues on the first visit while reducing time spent on administrative tasks. While on-site, technicians can collect relevant information about the assignment, get customer signatures, sync information and back-office processes within minutes for more-accurate invoicing, and capture sales leads. With this solution, field service leaders, managers, and stakeholders can make decisions based on real-time insights, gain visibility of field service operations, and take advantage of advanced analytical dashboards. You can reduce field service costs and support cross-selling and up-selling while improving customer satisfaction and reducing churn through speedy, transparent resolutions and service processes.

How FSM improves your service operation, increases customer experience and helps growing your services business.

CJ Distribution Stepping up to SAP S/4HANA

Visualizing and Managing Risk in a Digital Future

Now more than ever before, asset-intensive organizations are recognizing the competitive advantages of interconnectivity and integration. Join Erik Danford-Klein from Prometheus Group as he discusses innovations in Barrier Management that can connect information silos and identifies real-life case studies in the field of Health & Safety. See how robust barrier management strategies allow you to set rigorous reporting standards, manage operation risks, and gain real-time asset data.

Reliability Engineering: Maintenance Optimisation and Life Cycle Analysis

Using Intrinsically Safe Device, 3D Laser Scanning, And Functional Rich Applications To Improve The Effectiveness Of Enterprise Asset Management

The utilization of mobile devices has increased significantly during the past couple of years, even more so during the recent pandemic. Organizations are increasingly investing in mobile technology to enable workforce to execute work remotely. Mobile device manufacturers invested in the development of devices to be more ruggedised, intrinsically safe, and to provide additional functionality to extend the use of these devices beyond the normal Work Management capabilities. 3D Technology has been on the forefront of innovation and development in the IT Industry. Find out how the use of 3D Laser Scanning can extend the scope of Enterprise Asset Management to include Structural Assets. By making use of this technology Companies can capture Structural Asset information in SAP and use SAP Visual Enterprise to provide visualization of engineering data throughout the enterprise. Not only are new hardware solutions provided, but application platforms are also redesigned or extended to benefit from the additional functionality provided by these technologies. Experience how functional rich platforms such as FIORI enable suppliers to completely transform the End User Experience.

• Utilizing rugged / intrinsically safe devices for more than just Work Management
• 3D Laser Scanning of structural assets with integration to SAP Visual Enterprise
• Using the richness of Fiori to completely transform the user experience.

Integrated Business Planning for MRO

In asset intensive industries the use of spare parts in maintenance requires a focus on the availability of the spare parts and make sure that the internal maintenance service level is acceptable. Integrated Business planning for Maintenance Reliability and Operations (IBP for MRO) addresses the planning of these spare parts to evaluate the intermitted usage or even regular usage of these spares. IBP uses predictive algorithms in forecasting and inventory variability to calculate the best possible safety stock levels and it does this regularly by taking into account the corrective maintenance spare part usage, planned or preventative maintenance requirements and also projects.

• Inventory Optimisation
• Safety Stock Planning
• Spare Parts planning

5 New Free Things in S/4HANA That Will Drive Supply Success

Whether it is the carrot of new features or the stick of the impending end of mainstream maintenance, moving to SAP S/4HANA is going to be a reality for all SAP ECC customer in the near future. In this session we will focus on the carrot and help new and existing SAP S/4HANA customers explore five completely free features that is unique to SAP S/4HANA. Whether you are still building your business case and (ROI) Return on Investment or struggling to find a solution that will improve your supply chain, this session may just help with some ideas. The rate at which SAP adds new features in previously “slow news day” modules, is unprecedented and there is something to excite everyone.

In this session, we will walk you through these innovative (and free) capabilities by providing a small narrative, showing a quick demo, and providing some examples of how these will improve the running of you supply chain. In addition, we will give you a time to value estimation of the cost and benefit of implement each free innovation. Existing SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA customers may find something useful and practical in this session, that will hopefully be a catalyst for change and innovation! We may even throw in a few additional ideas.

Asset Master Data Quality Improvement: The No-Regrets Step to a Flawless S4/HANA Transformation

Establishing a sound master data foundation can reduce the overall cost of an S4/HANA transformation by roughly thirty percent. In asset-intensive industries, accurate asset master data is crucial to unlock the advanced S4/HANA capabilities such as reliability-centered maintenance and performance analytics. This session will explain how to achieve the benefits of perfect asset master data and reduce the risks of S4/HANA transformation in the earliest stages of the S4/HANA journey.

Digital Disruption In The World of Procurement in Africa

Digital Disruption is transforming the way we interact, communicate and operate in our business. Globally disruptive technologies are creating entirely new business models. This is happening across all businesses, and Procurement as a function is very much at the centre of this discussion. Especially in times like these when the global economy is highly volatile and fragile, organizations are looking to better manage their spend, drive efficiency, resilient supply chains, and sustainability through digital procurement transformation.

MRO Data Management Is No Longer A ‘Want’, It’s A ‘Need And A Must-Have’!

Having high-quality data is no longer something that can be viewed as ‘just a pipe dream’ that you hope will magically happen, it's now a must but it will not happen on its own. Steps must be taken, people must be given ownership, processes must be reviewed and adjusted to ensure the data is at the centre of attention, and tools must be provided to tie the people and processes together. Phew, that’s a mouthful!

Effective MRO Materials Management through the use of high-quality data has the potential to deliver significant savings in the form of cash and cost reductions, time and noise reductions, and process automation (AI and ML concepts depend on it)!

During this hour I will talk through some key learnings from my 30-year career and a few ideal milestones that all MRO Data Quality Roadmaps should contain.

Here are few discussion points:
• Free Text spend < 10%
• Speed and Accuracy of the Cataloguing Process
• Duplicates be-gone!
• Enabling the Procurement Team to deliver
• Business Process Automation

Why Integrated Business Planning Is Essential To Improve Your Company’s Performance