enterprise asset management made easy
DESCRIPTION
EAM simplicity with the NetWeaver Business Client A new user interface based on the NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) is available in the EAM environment. The simplified interface will enhance the user experience and will increase user productivity. All related asset information is easily accessible by the asset viewer, including an enhanced dashboard and analytics in a side panel. SAPience User Day, March 21, 2013TRANSCRIPT
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EAM simplicity withthe NetWeaver Business Client
Jeroen De RoeckPLM Competence Lead ,Expertum
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Agenda
Introduction
New user Experience
Enterprise Asset Managment Made Easy
Maintenance Worker Role
Technical Background
Key Benefits
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Introduction Expertum
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Facts• Founded in April 2006 by 2 ex-SAP Belux employees• Team of 50+ SAP Experts and Project Managers• Partnerships
Mission• Exceed client expectations by providing top-quality expertise• Provide our people a safe environment for personal and professional growth
Strength• Highly skilled & experienced SAP consultants in all SAP areas, combined with a wide industry knowledge in several domains• First (and still only) IT services provider on the Belgian market to receive coveted SAP certificate for quality management (AQM)
Gold
Knowledge Management
-Product &
Service Development
Project Management
(PM)Supply Chain Management
(SCM)
Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM)
Application Lifecycle
Management (SolMan
+NW)
Governance, Risk, and
Compliance (GRC)
Business Intelligence
(BI: BW + BO)
Finance & Controlling
(FI/CO)
Expertum Competence Areas
Focus PLM team
• Portfolio and Project Management (PPM)
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
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User Experience: an overview
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User Experience: an overview
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User Experience: an overview
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User Experience: an overview
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Some words about NWBC
Rich, Unified Environment, Desktop Client maximizing the SAP Transactional User Experience
SAP harmonized and intuitive Signature Design
Unified environment for legacy and new SAP applications
High fidelity UI with increased graphical capabilities –Microsoft C# WPF-based client
Multi-window-based navigation model
Leverages desktop client capabilities
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NWBC – Flavors
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Roles
• Roles in PFCG determine content in navigation bars• Roles match the ‘ real life’ roles that people perform in their
organization
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NWBC Summary
Rich desktop client that offers a single point of entry to business apps
Seamless evolution from SAP GUI-based apps
Maximize the productivity of power users
SAP harmonized and intuitive Signature Design
Leverages desktop client capabilities
Role-based user settings and interaction
Work item-driven navigation• Central personalized access to all relevant individual work lists
• Work pushed to the user via automatic update
• Easy personalization
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Enterprise Asset Management Made Easy
Maintenance Worker has single personalized access to relevant work lists
Work lists can be arranged by categories
Number of work items direct visible
Push mechanism
Complexity: low
Designed for occasional and professional users
Maintenance Worker has to search for the workload in many different screens
Pull mechanism
Complexity: medium to high
Designed for expert users
End-user training necessary
A Maintenance Worker has to know transaction codes or menu paths and the report variants
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New UI ‘Maintenance Worker’
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Role Maintenance worker
TasksThis role contains all the functions that a maintenance worker requires for their work. This role can be assigned to a technician.
The technician is under the maintenance supervisor. The technician carries out the daily maintenance tasks. The job title of a technician depends on the kind of work that he or she does (for example, mechanic or electrician).
Activities
Perform planned and unplanned maintenance work
Display jobs and print job cards
Withdraw materials from stock
Enter actual data for the work performed
Create notifications
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Role Generic EAM Functions
TasksProvides users with a standardized user interface for the simplified management of master data
ActivitiesWeb Dynpro Applications are available for:
• Technical object : create, change, display
• Object network : create, change, display
• Measuring point : create, change, display
• Measurement document : create, display
• Maintenance task list : create, change, display
• Maintenance notification : create, change, display
• Maintenance plan : create, change, display
• Maintenance item : display
• Maintenance order : create, change, display
• Linear reference pattern : create, change, display
Applications• Safety measure list
• Order and notification list
• Asset viewer
• Business context viewer
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Launchpad
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Job list - example
Display a list of jobs for which I am responsible. From there you can:Display job card
Display additional information
Start processing the job
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Job card
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Information center – Advanced Search
High speed search across object types, including text and attributes
Google like hit list
Combine search text with additional search attributes
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Information center – Personalized access
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Information center – Asset navigator
The Asset Viewer displays detailed information about maintenance-related objects.
It provides additional support while carrying out maintenance work
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Integrated Business Context
Side Panel started from the Asset Viewer• Providing Analytics
• Previews of List and Charts
• Transactional Data
• BI reporting
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Confirmation List
Objectives:
Entering of time confirmations, material consumption, counter readings for completed planned jobs
After-event order recording for unplanned work
Creating notifications, if further tasks arise from the processing of jobs
Safety measures list
New tab for safety plan
Safety measures on order or operation level
Allows you to classify objects such as documents, permits, and task lists as Safety measures
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Technical Background
Maintenance Worker Role available for• NWBC
• Portal
Available from EhP 5 onwards• More content available in EhP 6
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Key Benefits
User centric information provisioning
Intuitive user interface to perform daily maintenance tasks• Very little training required
Unification of multiple objects in single lists and transaction
Business Analytics right available via Business Context Viewer and sidepanels
Adoption by maintenance workers helps ensure complete maintenance history and enables effective analytics
Provide the asset managers and maintenance workers with all the information they need in the right format at their fingertips.
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Jeroen De RoeckPLM Competence Lead
Expertum