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Enterprise Asset Management

Finding the right balance between asset productivity and total cost of ownership

One of the key challenges for Utility companies today is to achieve the optimal balance between cost and risk reduction while ensuring optimal asset uptime and utilization. Finding the sweet spot between Return On Assets (ROA) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is demanding as companies often fall short in the following areas:

  • Lack of a unified view of assets across organizations and technology platforms
  • Asset maintenance processes and technologies are missing or inefficient
  • No Unified technology solutions to manage assets through their lifecycle
  • Inadequate decision support models and technologies to support the asset lifecycle

At the Westernacher Utilities and Telecommunications Industry practice we have a global team that helps improve ROA and reduce TCO by serving companies in the following areas:

The chart shows the areas of Westernacher’s expertise in the field of Enterprise Asset Management. The chart is divided in the subject area, strategy, operations and technologies. The first area is plant maintenance. Westernacher’s operational expertise in this field is to plan maintenance and compatible Units Design. Supporting IT in this area are SAP- PR, SAP-ISU and ESRI. The second subject is asset master data management. The strategic expertise can be defined in the points enterprise data architecture and master data management strategy, data governance strategy and implementation and the “best of Breed” Integration, ERP or GIS. The key expertise in the field of asset master data management is global asset an asset hierarchy master data design, master data management process design and implementation as well as metadata management. Supporting IT in this case is SAP-PM and SAP-ISU as well as SAP MDM. The third area is network lifecycle management; strategic expertise in this case is network design and building. Westernacher supports your company with operational expertise in the fields of demand and requirements planning, investment management as well as network operations. Supporting IT in this area is SAP_APO, SAP-IM, SAP-PS as well as ESRI.

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