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SAP Asset Performance Management

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What is SAP Asset Performance Management?

SAP Asset Performance Management is used to to run a sustainable, risk-resilient supply chain while balancing asset performance, risks, and costs.

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SAP Asset Performance Management Reviews

What users are saying about SAP Asset Performance Management.
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Pros

  • Streamlines collection and preparation of asset data for reporting
  • Provides predictive maintenance features, including failure curve analytics
  • Offers seamless integration with SAP Plant Maintenance

Cons

  • Complex integration with SAP S/4 and diverse external data sources
  • User interface is perceived as cluttered and needs modernization
  • Difficulties in data extraction for new users

Data driven Performance KPIs

Incentivized
Anuj SantView profile
Senior buyer in Manufacturing at GVA Lighting, Inc. (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Asset Performance Management is a great tool for employee performance monitoring, it helps in setting realistic KPI's for employees. Data driven approach helps in better employee feedback and improvement opportunity.

Pros

  • Employee performance monitoring
  • KPI feedback
  • regular monitoring and goal setting

Cons

  • for our current usage tool is good but some more dashboards will be great
  • integration with more SAP modules considering our manufacturing industry requirement

Return on Investment

  • Employees KPI adjustment to business need.
  • end of year performance feedback

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ADP WorkForce Suite

Other Software Used

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

SAP APM

Incentivized
Patrick McNultyView profile
Digital Operations Manager in Information Technology at AES (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP APM to help transition from a reactive to preventative maintenance strategy. The goal is to fix our equipment before functional failure not afterwards. Currently more than 80% of our work is done on broken equipment. Utilizing APMs FMEA and RCM tools will help us reach our goals.

Pros

  • Failure curve analytics
  • FMEA
  • RCM

Cons

  • SSO for current S/4 users, APM being a public cloud solution has its limitations
  • Automatic integration between S/4 and APM
  • Mapping SCADA data to FLOCs

Return on Investment

  • Increase in MTBF
  • Technician utilization
  • Equipment output

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Total Resource Management - Maximo AAM and Prometheus Group Integrated EAM Software

Other Software Used

Prometheus, Atlan, Atlassian Jira

Using insights to help in decision making and eliminating potential risks

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Asset Performance Management in my current organization to manage and analyze asset data to find insights to make day to day decisions based on analysis reports. It helps me with identify the issues which occurs in routine and solve them promptly. Also, my use case is that I use SAP APM to identify trends and asset health to make decision making which help clients to take measures for identified risk.

Pros

  • It helped me collect all asset data and analyze it from one place which ultimately enhanced the tracking of KPIs.
  • I compare past data with current asset information to predict any potential risks and provide solutions using SAP APM which helps in better decision making.
  • Asset data is easier to access as the information is available in one place which can be used for analysis, review or reporting.

Cons

  • integrating with other data sources can be challenging which needs to be simpler for better usability.
  • User interface can be more intuitive for new users or at least self-help section which can help access anything and understand features.
  • there should be more flexibility and customization options in dashboard section which can be very helpful in overall productivity.

Return on Investment

  • I automated workflows to reduce manual work which saves my time and I use that time to work on high priority tasks which has increased my productivity.
  • I use past data to find trends and track performance of the assets So that I can use predictive analysis for such assets to identify the potential risks in advance.
  • Asset data comes from SAP APM is very straightforward and structured which makes it easy to create performance reports which ultimately makes the reporting consistently accurate.

Usability

Other Software Used

IBM watsonx.ai, IBM watsonx.data, Webex Meetings, Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)

Asset Management is easier with SAP Asset Performance Management

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Asset Performance Management to check the asset performance, analyze coverage expiration, and update maintenance in BI. I use it to review the asset metrics, find performance trends of assets for my clients and track the assets life cycle. It helps our organization to monitor the asset health and address any problem with hardware. Overall, it increases visibility of asset health and helps in quick decision making.

Pros

  • It helps find any anomaly and repeated maintenance requirement with analysis.
  • It helps in saving time in collecting asset data and analyzing it for reporting.
  • It also has reduced time in data cleaning and preparation which saves my time for problem solving.

Cons

  • The user interface is little, cluttered and old which makes it less intuitive according to today's era.
  • Integrating data with this tool is quite a complex task when data is from different sources.
  • If AI features are introduced like other tools nowadays it could become easier for non-technical users to do basic analysis.

Return on Investment

  • Well, for data analyst like me it has been very helpful in improving my productivity by spending less time on data collection and preparing data to analyze which can easily be retrieved with SAP Asset Performance Management.
  • It has improved maintenance planning of the assets which leads to on time updating coverages and resolving asset issues.
  • Manual work is reduced as asset and maintenance data can be retrieved through SAP Asset Performance Management which saves a lot of time.

Usability

Other Software Used

Webex Connect, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Azure

SAP Asset Performance Management review

Incentivized
Verified User
Program Manager (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Standard asset management implementation with maintenance and engineering requests/orders in addition to purchase goods and services integrations.

Pros

  • Depth of options for asset maintenance
  • Integration across the supply chain process

Cons

  • Ease of use for new users, it's intimidating and difficult to onboard
  • UX is slowly moving towards a modern experience but still has room to improve

Return on Investment

  • Significant improvement to visibility of operations and supply chain

Usability