The way in which Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are used to support maintenance processes in many asset intensive industries (like oil and gas) is often stuck in a vicious cycle that not only fails to deliver on efficiency gains but actually destroys value. Poor quality master data and repair history data mean that the preventive maintenance (PM) schedules produced automatically by the ERP system are not trusted. Not only does this force maintenance managers to do their planning on side applications or spreadsheets it means that the benefit of seamless integration with the ERP’s material requirements planning and procurement modules becomes heavily impaired. This makes the forward planning of materials and specialist services purchasing more problematic leading to frequent postponement of maintenance work due to non-availability of materials. Such churn in the maintenance schedule requires further manual re-planning contributing to a descending spiral of ine
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