The challenge of maintaining supply while keeping maintenance costs under control has been met with SAP and inhouse expertise.

In the mid 1990s CitiPower/Powercor Australia implemented SAP Enterprise Asset Management solutions to consolidate our systems and improve asset management processes. Once IT had become familiar with the capabilities of the new system, they discovered it had the potential to do much more. The resulting template represents ten years of investment and continuous improvement on the core components of SAP R/3 applications, comprising:

• Works Management
• Asset Management
• Resource Planning and Scheduling
• Logistics
• Financials/Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable
• Human Resources/Payroll/Employee Self Service

Now successfully implemented in four utility businesses, the template consists of innovative utility-specific SAP configuration and enhancements to streamline both back and front office operations. Enhancements to the base SAP solution have been implemented to cater for the specific requirements of utilities, with:

• A large and diverse asset base
• Asset management focus
• Large geographic areas
• Industry-specific regulatory requirements
• A varied range of work
• Work insourced or outsourced

The template has an extensive range of reporting options available to your end users and management executives. The continual development of report options enables a range of relevant reports to be available at implementation. Reports are available across all front and back office operations, with utility-specific reports for:

• Asset Life Cycle Management
• Condition Monitoring
• Defect Management and packaging
• Progress versus Plan
• Capacity Utilisation
• Project Performance
• Milestone Achievement
• Contract Management

Support
The template is developed and supported by a knowledge base of application support personnel with a collective 150 years of systems and business experience in the utility industry. In 2006, the SAP template was successfully upgraded to the latest SAP release ERP2005.

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