SAP Solution Brief
SAP Enterprise Asset Management
SAP Inventory Manager for Maximo
Objectives
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Reduce Costs and Improve
­Materials Management with
Mobile Technology
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
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 infor­
mation, 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.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Increase asset life and improve
­performance and availability
Increase asset life and improve p
­ erformance
and availability
Improve productivity and optimize inventory
operations
Speed cycle counts and order p
­ rocesses, 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.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Improve productivity and optimize
inventory operations
Increase asset life and improve p
­ erformance and
availability
Improve productivity and optimize inventory
operations
Speed cycle counts and order p
­ rocesses, 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.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Speed cycle counts and order
­processes, and facilitate compliance
Increase asset life and improve p
­ erformance 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.
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Objectives
Benefits
Solution
Quick Facts
Make sure parts are available for
­efficient asset management
Make sure parts are available for e
­ fficient
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.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
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
Quick Facts
Solution
•• 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
Benefits
•• 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
www.sap.com/inventory-manager.
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