End-to-End Processes in Asset Management

Based on collaboration with customers, partners and external resources, SAP has identified several key
end-to-end processes that we believe are key drivers to achieve high-performing assets. These end-to-end
processes transcend traditional software boundaries to deliver capabilities that are focused on solving the
business challenges.

Planning, Building, and Commissioning Assets on page

Asset Visibility and Performance on page
Optimized Asset Operations and Maintenance on page
Asset Safety and Compliance on page
Real Estate Lifecycle Management on page

Planning, Building, and Commissioning Assets

This end-to-end process helps owner/operators set the right priorities in their capital investments and align
them with their strategic corporate goals. Companies gain visibility into the whole portfolio of capital projects
integrated with detailed project management. Financial integration, rich planning and monitoring functionality
enables companies to govern project execution effectively, avoiding budget overruns and delays.
Planning, Building, and Commissioning Asset enables collaboration with OEMs (Original Equipment
Manufacturers) and EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) contractors as well as a continuous
electronic staging and transformation process for documents and master data ensuring operational readiness
at project completion. Complete, accurate and accessible asset information allows companies to fully leverage
the SAP EAM system in the operations and maintenance phase.
Solution Brief: Planning, Building, and Commissioning Assets
This solution brief describes how integrated SAP solutions enable holistic asset planning, building, and
commissioning through integrated portfolio management, project management, and asset information
management.

Asset Visibility and Performance

This end-to-end process enables manufacturing leaders to improve asset performance (increase uptime,
narrow process variability, reduce energy and maintenance costs, and react faster to process changes) by
increasing visibility to manufacturing processes; sharing best practices, leading to greater productivity and
improved operational efficiency.
Asset Visibility and Performance provides capabilities to use tools and connectors to join plant operations
data with business processes/ ERP, to set up dashboard and alerts to track status of asset performance and

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achievement of KPI's, to set up ability to drill down on details to identify improvement actions, and to optimize
asset operations through advanced reliability based systems.
Solution Brief: Asset Visibility and Performance
This solution brief describes how organizations can increase uptime, narrow process variability, control
maintenance costs, react faster to process upsets, and satisfy customers more consistently if they can gain
greater visibility into their operations and asset performance and how software from SAP can help you gain this
visibility.
White Paper: Asset Visibility, Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management
This white paper from Manufacturing Insights, an IDC Company, is designed to help the reader understand the
substantial business case for improving asset performance, examine various industry scenarios, and frame
how people, process, and technology come together to deliver advanced capability.

Optimized Asset Operations and Maintenance

This end-to-end process enables manufacturers to improve run time production and reduce costs by running
an integrated maintenance program. Running preventive maintenance programs allows higher equipment
reliability and a more stable environment where needs for people, contractors, parts, and services can be
planned and optimized.
Optimized Asset Operations and Maintenance manages all aspects of running an asset - master data &
physical assets, work procedures, task scheduling, maintenance execution, shutdown planning, purchasing
services and spare parts. This end-to-end process provides integrated capabilities from maintenance cost
budgeting, service procurement with supplier self services, automated spare parts planning, to maintenance
analytics.
Solution Brief: Optimized Asset Operations and Maintenance
This solution brief explains how SAP and partner solutions enable holistic asset operations and maintenance
management by integrating, automating, and unifying all maintenance-related data, processes, and reporting.

Asset Safety and Compliance

This end-to-end process enables manufacturing leaders to drive towards a zero incident rate and decrease
total costs across multiple plants by reducing risks (identify, plan and execute mitigating actions, establishing
leading indicators, monitoring compliance, maintaining mechanical integrity) and improving operational
visibility.
Asset Safety and Compliance enables stakeholders to create an operational risk management (risk,
compliance, safety, operations) strategy for implementation across multiple plants. Work processes support a
'best practice' approach and clearly identify performance goals and objectives per plant, providing transparency
to the operations team.

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Solution Brief: Asset Safety and Compliance

This solution brief explains how SAP solutions can help you operate in a cleaner, safer way - and still perform
optimally - by aligning stakeholder objectives across the enterprise and supporting integrated asset safety and
compliance.
White Paper: Asset Safety and Compliance
This white paper from Industry Insights, an IDC Company, describes how moving toward best-in-class
performance in operational risk management requires a programmatic, deliberate approach that combines the
necessary people, process, and technology elements to achieve success.

Real Estate Lifecycle Management

This end-to-end process enables owners and operators of office, retail, industrial and residential property
to get full insight into their portfolio, keep construction projects on track, increase rental income, increase
corporate workplace utilization, monitor expenses more efficiently and drive maintenance and repair work more
efficiently.
Real Estate Lifecycle Management provides capabilities to analyze portfolios to monitor performance, propose
investments to optimize the portfolio, to purchase and monitor services for construction and modernization,
to lease space to externals to increase revenue, to assign corporate workspace to employees to increase
utilization, and to order services to maintain & repair buildings.
Solution Brief: Real Estate Lifecycle Management
This solution brief explains how SAP solutions enable holistic real estate management by integrating,
automating, and unifying all real estate-related data, business processes, and reporting.
White Paper: Real Estate Lifecycle Management
This white paper from Aberdeen describes how real estate and facilities lifecycle management can help
companies to grow even in challenging times.

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