Asset-intensive companies are quickly coming to realize the benefits of mobilizing workforces through IBM Maximo and SAP asset management applications. However, one key factor often gets overlooked when organizations search for a solution. Missing the mark on this component can make a big difference in whether the organization achieves a positive return on investment (ROI) or gets saddled with a system that doesn't fully meet its unique needs.
The difference between a merely adequate asset management application and one that empowers users to achieve optimum results is the ability to easily customize and configure the system. The greater this capability, the higher the chance it will be one that maintenance, the warehouse, and asset managers will embrace and want to use daily. Let's examine this in greater detail.
Why Customization and Configuration Are Important for Workforce Mobilization
If you're currently weighing mobile IBM Maximo and SAP asset management solutions, you're getting inundated with lengthy lists of features and functions. These certainly shouldn't be dismissed, but two features you should keep an eye out for are customization and configuration. If a solution lacks such features, move on. You'll quickly discover it won't meet your needs because it can't adapt to your business as it grows and changes.
Without the ability to customize, you're letting the vendor dictate to you how the system is set up, what it can do, and its use. You have little or no leeway to change the system to better align with your process. This situation dramatically limits its versatility and usefulness. Either you must change your company's processes to better conform to the solution's parameters, go to IT in the hopes they can make alterations, or put up with a loss of flexibility. None of these options are palatable.
A solution that provides easy customization and configuration offers many advantages. For one, you can alter the solution to best meet your organization's or department's unique needs and business requirements rather than changing your processes. And you can reconfigure the solution any time those needs or requirements change.
Furthermore, an asset management application that enables a super user to tailor the application's functions to align to specific roles, geographies, etc., delivers greater simplicity, flexibility, and agility for companies seeking to mobilize workforces and streamline workflows.
Customize and Configure Mobile IBM Maximo and SAP Asset Management Applications
Innovapptive is a global pioneer in developing IBM Maximo and SAP asset management applications. Our mWorkOrder, mInventory, and mAssetTag solutions provide asset-intensive companies with an effective way to increase wrench time, manage warehouse activities, and eliminate ghost assets, among many other benefits. Innovapptive understood from its founding that any IBM Maximo or SAP asset management solution that didn't empower easy application customization and configuration was of little practical value to the customer.
That's why we developed RACETM (the Rapid Application Configuration Engine). RACE is our patented, proprietary tool that lets any super user customize or configure our applications themselves on the fly without having to go to IT or the vendor for assistance.
Using RACE is simple. No coding previous knowledge or experience is required. That's why we call it a low code/no code tool. How can it be used?
- A maintenance manager can use it to create a customized operator rounds checklist in a matter of minutes and issue it to the inspector while that person is in the field.
- A warehouse supervisor can make needed edits to an inventory checklist during an inventory, increasing inventory speed and efficiency.
- A finance manager can alter an asset inventory screen to better account for asset conditions, making the company ledger more accurate.
This can be done on the fly with no previous coding knowledge or experience in just minutes. There's no need to involve IT or contact the vendor.
We've built a library of over 150 preconfigured forms you can immediately leverage or create your own. This makes it easy to take the paper forms you're already using and convert them to dynamic, digital equivalents. Easily deploy digital forms to frontline workers for immediate use in maintenance work orders, inventory management, and other critical assignments.
Greater Simplicity, Flexibility, and Agility – In One Easy-to-Use Package
Ready to transform your maintenance, warehouse, or asset tracking processes? View a free demo here. Then give one of our workforce mobilization experts a call at 1-844-464-6668. They'll be happy to listen to your requirements, answer your questions, and explain how RACE can add greater simplicity, flexibility, and agility to your organization's workflows while delivering a higher ROI and a solution your workers will want to use.
