Reduce Costs and Improve Materials Management with Mobile Technology

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1 SAP Brief SAP Enterprise Asset Management SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo Objectives Reduce Costs and Improve Materials Management with Mobile Technology

2 Streamline inventory processes for better asset management Streamline inventory processes for better asset management Your team is responsible for maintaining the machinery and infrastructure that powers your enterprise. Maintaining asset availability and limiting downtime depends on having the right parts, tools, and materials on hand when they re required. Mobile inventory management functionality from SAP helps companies like yours improve asset readiness and customer service. Asset-intensive companies depend on fast, cost-effective inventory processes to keep machinery and infrastructure up and running and limit downtime. Field personnel can operate with greater efficiency and effectiveness when they can locate and access the information, parts, equipment, and materials they need and perform cycle counts and spot checks more frequently. What s needed is a way to eliminate manual and paper processes and improve efficiency to mitigate stoppages and interruptions caused by inventory shortages and when they do occur, reduce their duration. With a sophisticated mobile app, you can get better control of asset obsolescence and carrying costs. You can get workers the information necessary to treat especially fragile and valuable items with the care they require. You can determine precise inventory levels to reduce shrinkage and theft. And in the end, you can save the organization money while boosting customer satisfaction and maintaining servicelevel agreements. 2 / 7

3 Increase asset life and improve performance and availability Increase asset life and improve performance and availability Improve productivity and optimize inventory operations Speed cycle counts and order processes, and facilitate compliance The SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo mobile app helps your field service and maintenance engineers get the mission-critical parts they need when they need them. Streamlined, paperless inventory management processes help you ensure timely and efficient maintenance of infrastructure and assets. Mobile functionality delivered anytime, anywhere, and to any device enables warehouse personnel to handle inventory quickly and maintain necessary stock levels. The app lets your enterprise capture and maintain accurate inventory data, and it generates real-time inventory updates to put the most current information into managers hands. With sharper and more reliable visibility into supply chain operations, you can improve inventory processes, decision making, and planning to maintain optimal inventory levels. Tap into SAP Mobile Platform to support mobile devices through a proven, scalable platform that integrates with SAP Mobile Secure solutions for enterprise-class security. The platform and security solutions make it easier to deploy, support, and manage multiple mobile devices and apps, allowing you to future-proof your enterprise mobility strategy. 3 / 7

4 Improve productivity and optimize inventory operations Increase asset life and improve performance and availability Improve productivity and optimize inventory operations Speed cycle counts and order processes, and facilitate compliance By eliminating paper forms for stock transfers, receipts, and issues, SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo enables your personnel to work more productively and reduce errors. This means faster inventory processes and improved stockroom operations. And your internal customers throughout the enterprise spend less time dealing with paperwork and waiting for jobs to be completed. Real-time information and process visibility and tight inventory controls improve operational efficiency. The mobile app captures transactional data and uploads it to your back-end system. With this accurate, up-todate information on stock levels and usage trends, you can optimize your supply chain by implementing and enforcing just-in-time inventory processes. You can enable auditing and inventory counting processes to reduce overstocking, spoilage, shrinkage, theft, and emergency shipments. You can eliminate the need to carry excess in-process stock and provide workers the information they need to take care that high-value and sensitive items are handled properly and safely. Fortify your supply chain and cut costs with SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo. 4 / 7

5 Speed cycle counts and order processes, and facilitate compliance Increase asset life and improve performance and availability Improve productivity and optimize inventory operations Speed cycle counts and order processes, and facilitate compliance Cycle counts are essential to proper inventory procedures and accuracy, and to finding the causes of inventory errors. Now, workers can speed up cycle counts with paperless functionality for downloading materials lists and entering physical counts, serial numbers, and items not included on materials lists. They can update and reconcile physical counts and add new bins or storerooms. The app facilitates stock-intake processes for purchase and production orders. Workers can download lists of POs sorted by variables including date, vendor, and plant. They can view line-item displays for selected purchase orders, enter receiving and returns information, and accept all items on a PO with a single swipe. The app helps keep things moving by enabling procedures for transferring goods internally and for issuing items for departure from the warehouse to cost centers and external customers. Workers can execute processes to return materials to stockrooms and transfer stock from one storage location to another. What s more, the app streamlines compliancerelated activities by automatically generating electronic audit trails of inventory transactions, quantities, and locations. This simplifies reporting for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Drug Administration, and other oversight groups and reduces associated costs. 5 / 7

6 Make sure parts are available for efficient asset management Make sure parts are available for efficient asset management With SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo, you can implement the inventory strategies that best serve your organization. The app gives your workforce the mobile tools to help accelerate repairs and reduce prolonged downtimes that can result from parts and materials shortages. Now, your personnel can determine more precise inventory levels; speed the issue, transfer, and return of spare parts and tools; and quickly reconcile purchase orders and receipts. SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo helps your organization meet the demands and constraints of a dynamic and fast-moving economy by making sure your operations run efficiently, without repair delays and downtime. This way, you can keep assets up and running, better control inventory processes and expenses, and meet customer expectations. Increase productivity, optimize your supply chain, reduce costs, and improve regulatory compliance with SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo. 6 / 7

7 Objectives Summary With the SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo mobile app, your maintenance and service personnel can be confident of having the mission-critical provisions they need to get the job done. By mitigating repair delays and downtime, you can run a more efficient operation and consistently meet servicelevel agreements. Future-proof your enterprise mobility strategy by tapping into the proven, scalable SAP Mobile Platform, integrating with SAP Mobile Secure solutions for enterprise-class security. Objectives Reduce stoppages and interruptions due to inventory shortages Keep obsolescence, shrinkage, theft, and carrying costs under control Make sure high-value and sensitive items are properly handled Real-time information, process visibility, and inventory controls to determine precise inventory levels Capture and upload of transactional data to enterprise solutions Paperless cycle count and stock transfer, receipt, and issue processes Generation of electronic audit trails of inventory transactions, quantities, and locations Issue, transfer, and return of spare parts and tools Reconciliation of purchase orders and receipts Cut costs related to delayed repairs and prolonged downtime Improve the efficiency of inventory processes Meet customer expectations and boost satisfaction Reduce inventory carrying costs Learn more To find out more, call your SAP representative today or visit us at 7 / 7 Studio SAP 33170enUS (14/10)

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