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This is Why You Must Put Your Workers’ Mobile Experiences First When Modernizing Your SAP Warehouse

Also, find out the seven things you must do to ensure you are addressing your frontline warehouse workers’ needs when making warehouse management system (WMS) and workflow changes. When you’re modernizing your SAP warehouse, it’s essential to put the mobile experiences of your warehouse workers first. After all, the experiences and performance of your connected frontline workers are one of the closest links to the experiences and satisfaction of your external customers. If you can modernize your SAP warehouse so…

SAP Work Manager vs. Asset Manager: How to Upgrade

Historically, there have been two primary SAP mobile applications for managing service and work orders: one is SAP Work Manager, and the other is SAP Service and Asset Manager. If your business uses SAP and you want to digitize and mobilize your work management, these two SAP mobile apps have been the main choices. However, things changed dramatically when SAP announced the end of mainstream maintenance for SAP Work Manager, which will occur in late 2024. By late 2024, SAP…

Why a Mobile-First Approach to SAP Mobile Inventory Apps is Essential

SAP has a remarkably powerful and beneficial inventory and warehouse management solution, but it can be challenging to maximize those benefits with mobile workers. This is because most SAP mobile inventory solutions are desktop-first applications that are adapted to run on mobile devices. They’re not mobile-first applications that are developed with mobile performance, ease of use, and efficiency in mind. Most SAP mobile inventory apps use older SAP technology such as SAP Console and ITS Mobile. This was a good…

6 Key Reasons Not to Use ITS Mobile for Your SAP Inventory Apps

If you’re looking to develop or redevelop an SAP mobile app for warehouse and inventory management, you want your app to be easy to use, to help workers complete tasks as efficiently as possible, and to ensure that your connections and performance are reliable. To make that happen, you need to make sure that you’re using the right development platform. However, many companies and their development teams make the mistake of using older frameworks and platforms, such as SAP’s ITS…

There’s a New Alternative to Legacy SAP Mobile Solutions That You May Want to Look Into

Learn why (and how) you should migrate from ITS Mobile, SAPConsole and Windows mobile apps to “Mobile Inventory Templates,” and what the process was like for two global companies that have already migrated.

Stop Getting Hammered in Operations Meetings

As a maintenance leader, I will always be hardest on the maintenance team as my expectations for preparedness, efficiency, and effectiveness put the onus on the Maintenance team to control their own destiny. Throughout my career, I have been surprised by the number of maintenance managers who allow their teams to be driven by reactive requirements from production or other areas of the business and are unable to attend to planned activities. We all know that at the end of…

Measuring Your Readiness for an SAP Asset Manager Implementation

Are you familiar with the saying “measure twice, cut once?” This carpenter’s motto can be applied to software implementations like SAP Asset Manager, where the preparation for a project lays the groundwork for success. Once the engagement starts, timelines are often tied to business events, system maintenance schedules, and time-based budgets so the costly mistake of incomplete planning and preparation should be avoided. Measuring twice means understanding the preparation steps needed in all phases of the project – from initiation…

Where Are Your Maintenance Parts Today?

Where are your maintenance parts today? That question turned out to have a costly answer for a large food and beverage production company. With multiple production lines that generate thousands of products daily, the organization understood the importance of keeping these lines up and running, and to ensure this, they kept $50 million worth of MRO inventory on hand. Fast forward to the scenario that every manufacturing organization dreads… The maintenance team needed a $10 part to repair a motor…

4 Must Haves for your SAP Plant Maintenance Goals

Over the years, I’ve encountered more than a few maintenance managers who proudly claim that they have no maintenance backlog. This statement always shocks me and I know with almost certainty that if we walked the plant, we would find something that is nearing failure or has the potential to stop production in the near-term. An accurate, managed maintenance backlog within SAP is critical to an organization seeking to improve efficiency. A key step to this is reviewing and setting…

How to Improve Everyday SAP Performance with Productivity Manager

SAP was created to solve one crucial systems problem: inter-departmental communication in enterprise-level businesses. In other words, SAP centralizes important project, inventory, and fulfillment information along the full supply chain. Without centralized communication, projects can slow or stop, mistakes are made, productivity goes down, and revenue drops because of hiccups along the fulfillment process. That’s why SAP has over 1 million customers around the world. Businesses thrive on great communication and struggle without it. But you don’t need to be…