Best Practices on Managing Plant Assets
for Higher Performance

Manufacturers and service industries that rely on assets with a long service life must perform a balancing act between meeting customer needs and satisfying investors with a healthy, consistent return on their investment. Many executives feel strong pressure to improve their company's returns on assets, as innovative companies are distancing themselves from the competition with better customer service, increased profitability, and maximized return on assets.

Companies of various industries are using asset management systems powered by SAP to achieve success. Learn how SAP provides effective processes covering the asset's entire life cycle — from initial design, building, commissioning, and running of the asset to optimizing, maintaining, and ensuring that it complies with environmental and safety regulations.

White Papers

Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business

Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business

Find out what your company needs to do to maximize opportunities and limit risks in response to current and future energy emissions policies. Learn about policies in force in regions and countries around the world, and discover strategies to manage emissions to help benefit your organization

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In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant

In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant

Searching for how to achieve the perfect plant — your vision of a fully integrated, seamlessly operational factory? As you face unprecedented pressures, you can minimize operating costs, optimize return on asset usage, meet delivery targets, and satisfy compliance and quality standards to achieve your goals by using SAP software.

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Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management

Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management

Based on the Manufacturing Insights Global Performance Index, no corporate performance measure correlates more closely to increases in market capitalization than return on assets (ROA). This tried-and-true measure evaluates executive management on making profitable use of the capital employed by the firm and rewards high performers with greater earnings multiples.

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Implementing a High Performing Assets Initiative

Implementing a High Performing Assets Initiative

Moving toward best-in-class performance requires a programmatic, deliberate approach that combines the necessary people, process, and technology elements to achieve. Read this analyst connection to understand how to best implement a high performing asset initiative in your company.

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Reports

Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise Asset Management

Learn in this Aberdeen report how Best-in-Class companies manage to reduce operational cost, improve profitability and hence improve the competitive edge. Get insight into strategies adopted by manufacturers to maximize return on assets, reduce risk, and uncover emerging trends around energy management to reduce energy consumption costs.

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The Business Value of Plant Floor Visibility

The Business Value of Plant Floor Visibility

Best in class manufacturers are driven to improve plant floor data management initiatives. In fact, the motivation is based out of the desire to improve performance improvement program effectiveness and the desire to improve operational performance visibility motivates. Learn from the best in class manufacturers tactics to improve your business.

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There is No Execution without Integration

There is No Execution without Integration

Discover how research shows that work in process often disappears into a black hole on the plant floor leaving the enterprise lacking the necessary information to make dynamic decisions. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help release production requirements to the factory on a weekly or daily basis.

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Ground Up Strategies for Asset Performance Management

Ground Up Strategies for Asset Performance Management

This benchmark investigates the ways top performing companies develop corporate cultures of reliability and leverage investments in advanced Asset Performance Management (APM) capabilities to improve operational performance by optimizing asset availability, utilization, and flexibility.

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Technology Options To Support EH&S Compliance

Technology Options To Support EH&S Compliance

According to AMR Research’s 2007 IT spending projections, EH&S compliance-related initiatives are the third most important area influencing IT investments in the next 12 months, behind the application of lean practices across the organization and better utilization/analysis of data throughout the organization.

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