Whitepapers



Driving Integration of Enterprise Asset Management

Operational excellence is the goal of every organization. In today's workforce, with the heavy reliance on technology in operations, the technology for mobile workforce management is critical as is performance management. To remain competitive, energy and utility companies must maximize productivity by closely integrating an asset management strategy with overall enterprise functions. [...]

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Reducing Maintenance Spend and Optimizing MRO and Spares Management with a Mobile Workforce Solution for Mining

Millions of dollars and large amounts of time are tied up in managing and maintaining spare parts for day-to-day maintenance, repair, and operations. This becomes a big challenge in asset-intensive industries such as mining. Poorly managed MRO inventory may lead to unnecessarily high costs, low plant and worker productivity, and high inventory-holding costs. Monitoring capital and operating costs remain important risks from the standpoint of mining executives, echoing a sentiment to alleviate past errors. Without accurate accounting of inventory, unexpectedly running out of essential items can cause delays which can also impact revenues for companies. [...]

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Digitizing Enterprise Asset Management in Utilities

The Utility industry is transforming at lightning speeds, driven by massive structural changes, new technologies involving highly interactive smart devices, and real-time processes enabled by a highly evolved digital energy network. With the rise of smart technology, improving asset management through digitalization is a key strategic initiative for companies continuing through 2019. As digitalization continues to grow, the competition for customers is shifting to the online channel; the Internet of Things promises new product and management options. Utility companies are adopting technology solutions which put them at the forefront of the evolution of asset management systems and allows them better decision making for business strategy, maintenance strategy, and maintenance process. Businesses are digging deeper into issues proactively rather reactively and using the additional information available to identify further opportunities for optimization.[...]

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Digitizing Field Operations: Achieving Higher Efficiency in the Field with RACE™ Dynamic Forms

Increasing adoption of digitization techniques in oil & gas fields for enhancing the production outputs and optimizing workflow methods has enabled companies to fulfil production targets and eliminate non-productive time in field. Hand-written notes and data are prone to human error as well as labor and time intensive which can cost organizations revenues and cause increased operational costs are a thing of the past. Today, leading companies are embracing technologies that can help them better manage and streamline their field work, data and processes, without compromising safety and security. Mobile field service and inspection solutions are technologies helping companies save time and money as well as reduce errors. [...]

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Driving Operational Excellence and Profitability in Oil and Gas

The oil and gas industry plays an important role in driving global economy. In the current environment, with demand for energy, fuel, and oil products continues to rise, price fluctuations are highly common and managing operations have effectively been become increasingly difficult for oil and gas companies. This white paper addresses some of the top business challenges faced by oil and gas industry [...]

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Fixed Asset Tracking 101: What, Why and How

Managing fixed assets in today’s complex business climate should not be limited to period end exercises, but it is a must-have regular activity. Correctly maintained fixed asset information helps business owners/executives to formulate effective policy and decisions regarding stakeholders’ investments to comply with internal and regulatory obligations. An accurate accounting of fixed assets will, not only save time and money, reduce theft, improve planning and budgeting, but also help organizations eliminate ghost assets or fixed assets that appear on a businesses’ general ledger.[...]

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Transform all your Paper Forms to Digital Forms with real-time Integration to SAP ERP

With the proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace, from smartphones to tablets to scanners, digital forms have become vital tools for conducting modern businesses.Nevertheless, many organizations do not consider the consequences of having paper based forms which require manual data entry. To maintain competitive edge, global and local organizations need to transform their businesses with the best cutting-edge digital technologies to deliver agility, efficiency, cost savings and great customer service.[...]

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Increase Equipment Reliability and Avoid Unplanned Downtime

In today’s increasingly competitive market, manufacturers have tough targets to reach in the ever-expanding global marketplace. To maintain their edge and maximize profits, Organizations need to fulfil customers’ varying demands in lesser time. Unplanned Downtime is an ever-present and expensive threat to manufacturers around the globe. Whether they are a single food processing unit or a string of multinational automotive plants, Manufacturing companies strive for the best and most optimal ways to improve plant performance – especially when they are being pressed to increase the production targets, drive down costs and shorten the lead times.[...]

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Best Practices Whitepaper - Oil and Gas Supply Chain: Leaders or Laggards?


Best Practices Whitepaper - Oil and Gas Supply Chain: Leaders or Laggards?

No sector is immune from relentless strategic forces driving change in today’s global economy. The Oil and Gas sector faces the rapid rise in renewable energies coupled with continuing growth in demand for their products in the developing world. Digital technologies such as mobile, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), etc. provide both opportunities and threats for existing industry players and new start-ups. While providing explanation as to why the Oil and Gas sector has been slow to adopt technology in the Supply Chain, this paper will also highlight that change is now happening, driven by the need to improve current inefficient supply chains.[...]

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Mobility Minimizes the operational Risks of Supply Chain in Chemical Industry


Mobility Minimizes the operational Risks of Supply Chain in Chemical Industry

The Chemical Industry is evolving in new and unexpected ways while facing tremendous competition. To tackle this, the industry should make improvements across key areas of business processes such as supply chain & logistics, asset utilization, etc. This whitepaper addresses the pain points of the Chemical Industry and explains that how the implementation of mobility can help the industry achieve an adaptive and flexible supply chain. [...]

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Cycle Counting Best Practices


Cycle Counting Best Practices to improve your customer Service and inventory holding costs

Cycle Counting is one of the most important elements of inventory management and helps organizations to run warehousing operations effectively. It provides greater insight into your inventory by continuously tracking and updating data throughout the year. This whitepaper addresses the benefits of implementing 5 best practices to effectively run the full range of warehouse functionality including good receipt, putaway, picking, packing, goods issue etc. [...]

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Mobilizing Maintenance activities White Paper


Mobilizing Maintenance activities improves Productivity, Wrench time, and Operational Efficiency

A significant amount of world’s GDP spends in maintenance activities, mostly for addressing equipment’s failure, breakage, and unexpected shutdowns. SAP plays a decisive role in the asset lifecycle of many companies. However, companies’ maintenance processes get delayed or late due to dependency on the desktop-based system. They don’t get real-time updates that mitigate unnecessary spends and repeated failures. [...]

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Optimizing the Supply Chain for Consignment Inventory


Optimizing the Supply Chain for Consignment Inventory

In today’s globalized economy, businesses are looking for ways to optimize the supply chain and Consignment Inventory is much maligned as organizations have struggled with deploying an effective process and benefits realization. There are many problems associated with the Consignment Inventory process ranging from the selection of unsuitable products, through to inadequate support from ERP systems and reliance on manual paper-based processes. [...]

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Leveraging your SAP Supply Chain investment using Mobile


Leveraging your SAP Supply Chain investment using Mobile

This whitepaper asserts why an integration of Inventory and Warehouse Management Solution with SAP matters a lot. However, warehousing requirements are not static, companies are expecting more. Gone are the days when the warehouse was used only for the material receipt, storage and loading. The range of activities that warehouses must support is becoming ever more complex [...]

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Service Order Mobile Solution white paper


Increase productivity & customer satisfaction with an exceptional Mobile Field Service Solution

Establishing connection with your field service team is imperative to consistently deliver a culture of exceptional service across your company. For field service technicians, getting the job done right means having the resources to complete their work correctly the first time and avoid logistical complications. Organizations that use Mobile Field Service Solution software have seen an increase in jobs completed per day as high as 47 percent, which represents strong improvement in job efficiency. [...]

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Fixed Asset Tracking Best Practices white paper


Best Practices of Fixed Asset Tracking Whitepaper

The modern asset management system needs to achieve more challenging asset outcomes against a backdrop of ever-increasing regulations and financial constraint. The fundamental reason why organisations implement asset management is because it makes good business sense. All asset-intensive organisations need an ordered, structured, disciplined way of controlling assets. [...]

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Optimize Asset Performance through a Mobile Maintenance Workforce white paper


Optimize Asset Performance through a Mobile Maintenance Workforce

Every company, either big or small has to maintain their assets and infrastructure up to date in order to keep their business engine moving without any downtime. However, there are some asset intensive industries where asset management becomes a critical issue. Some industries in this sector include mining, oil & gas, energy, utilities, rail and transit. They share a typical set of challenges that need to be addressed to enhance their operational performance, productivity, Reliability and profitability. [...]

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mWorkOrder White Paper


Confluence of EAM and Mobile Technology to mitigate challenges

This white paper probes into the typical scenarios in the asset intensive industries, particularly with reference to how assets are maintained and distributed, typical expectations & challenges and how Innovapptive’s mWorkOrder solution plays a pivotal role to help organizations transform the way they maintain and distribute the assets, improving their overall operational efficiency. [...]

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Data Modelling in SAP Gateway White Paper


Data Modeling in SAP Gateway – maximize performance at all levels

With SAP Netweaver Gateway becoming the platform to seamlessly connect across several devices, it is imperative that data modelling plays a pivotal role in developing applications. Needless to say, the data model you create consists of the operations you want to perform in runtime, mapped to specific data and attributes. Against this backdrop, this white paper probes into the concepts and functionalities of using Data modelling in SAP Gateway with relevant notes and screen shots, wherever applicable. [...]

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Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement White Paper


Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement

By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP application.Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. [...]

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Securing your Unwired Enterprise White Paper


Back to the Future: Securing your Unwired Enterprise

This white paper from Innovapptive Inc. explores how companies can safely introduce employee, or corporate-owned mobile devices and applications into the workplace, identify the risks inherent in their broader access to corporate data, and recommendations on mitigating these risks to derive enhanced business value. [...]

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