CMMS stands for Computerised Maintenance Management System. It is a term similar to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), which are both umbrella terms for the maintenance management of assets and equipment. A CMMS is computer software that helps in simplifying maintenance management for any leading businesses.
Well, the maintenance management entails in a perfect manner to maintain the entire resources as well as the physical assets that a company owns for assuring effective and efficient production with minimum or no money wasted due to improper inefficiency.
CMMS performs maintenance management by giving businesses instantaneous insight into their maintenance needs with comprehensive work order schedules, accurate inventory forecasts, and immediate access to crucial reports. CMMS simplifies maintenance management by empowering businesses with the tools to make more informed decisions.
In most organizations, the maintenance department’s main functions are the following:
- Maximizing the availability of the physical assets
- Keeping physical assets in a workable and safe state
- Reduce the operating costs caused by equipment downtime and damage
But the areas where the SAP-based maintenance system and a simple ERP/non-SAP based maintenance system collide are:
Technical advantages:
- While implementing maintenance the SAP core system gets changed, with non SAP it is not required.
- Integration with other systems is not in SAP backbone but in CMMS it is pretty seamless
- SAP PM module has to be implemented first for maintenance wherein CMMS is not required
- For Mobile extension, you need to buy separate solution ins SAP but in many CMMS it’s a packaged solution without the hassle of license
- Future customization as per the SOP changes is difficult in SAP because the core SAP changes are required whereas in CMMS it’s very easy
Business value:
- Implementation time is very long when with other systems is only 2-3 months.
- Ease of use, solution-based cost and implementation cost in SAP is high where as any non SAP would be budget friendly for industries in this current situation
Commercial benefit:
- SAP PM user license and the digital license is one of the pain areas for the customers whereas any other ERP/CMMS solution doesn’t need this license trouble
- The SAP PM module has to be implemented to get on with the maintenance implementation and the cost is extra, whereas in other systems its NIL
- As per the standard rule post go-live support provided by SAP is just 2 weeks but in local or other CMMS provider it depends on them because they strive for customer satisfaction and generally it has been seen more than 6-7 weeks.
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