CA’s EAM Assessment offering is a comprehensive and in-depth examination of your SAP EAM solution, aiming to highlight improvement areas based on every organisation's unique SAP EAM solution landscape and journey. Our tried and trusted approach to SAP EAM Assessment is based on three primary principles:

ISO/Industry Standards: Assessment compares current SAP Solutions and the practices around it against relevant Industry and ISO standards such as ISO 55001, ISO 14224
SAP's Standard Practices: EAM Assessment also establishes 'deviations' from recommended SAP best practices.
Organizations Guidelines/Rules: Every organisation is unique in some form; CA’s EAM Assessment factors are in the evaluation process and for improvement recommendations.

Key Deliverables - Our 6-week SAP EAM Assessment comes with 3 KEY Deliverables.

Health Report of the Current Solution
The health report highlights the problems within the current SAP EAM Solution. In addition to looking into SAP Functional EAM Solution, we investigate SAP Master Data and essential functions connected to Maintenance Operations and Asset Management such as Planning, Scheduling and Reliability Engineering. The report we produce rates each function, data element and process on a high, medium, and low-impact scale, highlighting the impact on business operations.
Improvement Recommendations
Health Report is followed by recommendations to improve the mentioned 'weaknesses' in SAP solutions, Data or Processes. These could be a combination of SAP Solution Improvements, Implementation of SAP Products, and SAP EAM Data Builds for Improvements to Business/SAP Practices. All improvements are provided with a priority order highlighting the dependencies as well.
Improvement Plan
In CA, we firmly believe in a 'pragmatic' approach and short to mid-term wins to achieve the organisation's long-term goals. That's why we prioritise the improvement recommendations and put them into an execution plan. This will allow the clients to execute them and reap tangible benefits every step of the way.

The most common 3 Key Stats from EAM Assessment

85%

of companies have problems with MASTER DATA. They varied from Asset Hierarchy to Maintenance Strategies to Detailed Work Instructions.

66%

of companies don't use SAP EAM in the 'right way'. This ranges from inefficient SAP usage, 'localised habits' or lack of 'fit-to-purpose' solutions.

63%

Companies need help with PLANNING & SCHEDULING. Strangely, 52% had IT tools to 'do the job'.

Who Benefits from CA’s EAM Assessment?

Organisations that look to Improve SAP EAM Solutions/Practices

Normally assessments from companies are with problems using SAP EAM (e.g. SAP PM, Material Sourcing, Scheduling tools, and Reporting tools). The assessment report highlights all the problematic areas regardless of whether it's connected to SAP Solutions, Data or user practices & Processes. The Improvement Plan guides how to overcome the problems. Quite often, our assessment highlights issues that the Maintenance, Asset Management and Reliability Engineering team have never known about, such as Maintenance Planners' diluting' their responsibility with other tasks as part of organisational processes, Data feeds from Technicians in the field not coming through and Over Maintenance of noncritical assets.

Maintenance Departments who constantly struggle to come out of 'Reactive Maintenance Cycles

We all know and understand most companies need help to break through from reactive maintenance. We often find investments made on state-of-the-art tools such as Scheduling Tools and Mobile solutions not getting to that magical ratio of Reactive to Proactive maintenance. CA’s EAM Assessment let you know where the problem is.

Companies who look for S/4HANA Transformations

Rightly so, many SAP companies are drawing plans to move to S/4HANA. S/4HANA opens a 'Technology Platform'; hence, an organisation's Maintenance & Asset Management function could reap benefits from this move, however, whether you are positioning yourself right to reap them. For example, recent EAM Assessments highlighted 60 – 80 % of the clients do not have their Master Data set up correctly to support SAP which undermines the benefits of S4HANA Move. Hence our Improvement Plans highlighted what actions to take to get the best out of S4HANA moves. We also produce a pragmatic implementation plan so that not everything needs to be done 'before HANA'. The most important point is you will know what to do and when.

Our Approach for EAM Assessments

Our industry-proven approach to EAM Assessments is geared to get you from where you are to where you want to be regarding the Maintenance Maturity Model. In our experience, this requires SAP Expertise, Business Process knowledge, and Industry Expertise.

We have a team of multi-disciplinary SAP EAM experts who produces a roadmap to get you there. Our well-established project standards and protocols ensure the clients only need to spend minimum time providing us with the necessary information supporting the exercise.