SAP Work Order Scheduling & Reporting Bolt-On
Missed Opportunities
SAP/Excel Scheduling Process
“I want to reduce scheduling time so my Planner has more time to plan.”
Scheduling with SAP requires ongoing time-consuming training; it’s hard to visualize the schedule, and when emergency work occurs, you scramble to adjust.
Maintenance planners/schedulers opt for planning in SAP and scheduling in Excel.
That means excessive, unnecessary time managing painful, click-intensive Excel/SAP schedules.
Labor availability is manually tracked in Excel, IW37N/copy & paste scheduling takes hours, data goes missing, it’s hard to track the latest, less work is scheduled, KPIs are based on unverified data, reporting is painful & you “are falling behind on planning”.
Time-Consuming
Avg. 5+ Hours Every Week
IW37N, Copy & Paste Scheduling =
Drained Planning Time
Planning in SAP and scheduling in Excel lose the average scheduler 5+ hours/per week.
Copying and pasting data
Manually tracking labor availability
Tracking down lost statuses
Sharing updates
Building reports
Time Consuming
Copy – Paste – Update – Repeat.
Tracking Labor Availability in Excel = Less Time Planning
Scheduling with Excel means manually tracking who is available. That means more time texting Frank, unnecessary overtime, more delays, and missed opportunities to increase scheduled work and PM.
Different Data silos
Unverified Data
Can’t be Trusted
Excel scheduling means varied processes, different ways of verifying and collecting data and ultimately, different data sets compromising your ability to measure, compare and improve.
Data:
Goes missing
Is faked
Isn’t easily accessible, causing the team to miss critical updates.
What’s the status?
What’s on the schedule next week?
What was missed this week & why?
Hard to Visualize
Excel schedules make it difficult to visualize the schedule. It’s hard to keep track of what’s happening, updates get lost, and you struggle to get a schedule posted each week.
Missing Metrics
KPIs
“Can I add a status on why work was missed?”
Excel schedules inconsistent data create inconsistent KPIs that are hard to trust, hard to access and time-consuming to report on.
Missing critical KPI reports, like what work was missed each day/week and why it was delayed, compromises your ability to translate insight into improvement.
Work Order Scheduling & Reporting
Seamless SAP Bolt-On
Maximize Planning
Sockeye is a SAP bolt-on work order scheduling and reporting tool.
Read/write SAP API integration and automation assigns ready-to-schedule work from SAP with available technicians to create daily/weekly schedules in minimal time, giving you more time to plan.
SMRP KPI reports are live, giving you the latest statuses and the best insights to drive best practices.
SAP X Sockeye Case Study
“Even if our spreadsheet tool had worked with SAP, there was still the issue that it was an enormous amount of work just to maintain it.“
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Easy, Consistent, Visual – Daily & Weekly Schedules
Sockeye integrates with SAP to display ready-to-schedule work orders. Simply select the work you want to schedule, and our automation will assign available technicians and contractors to build your daily/weekly schedule.
Goodbye Scheduling Blind
Use Your Shift Patterns
Technician & Contractor Availability Dashboard
Effortlessly access crew and contractor availability for the upcoming week.
Input your shift patterns and planned absences directly in Sockeye to easily manage employee and contractor availability. Editing is a breeze, tracking vacations is simplified, manual scheduling time goes down and planning increases.
Your SAP Backlog
More Planning & Consistent, Visual, Flexible, Weekly Schedules
Minimal-Click Scheduling & More Planning
Craft your schedule effortlessly in just a few clicks. The backlog displays work orders from SAP and allows you to filter and search according to your criteria.
Sockeye’s automation builds daily/weekly schedules that maximize productivity. It even helps identify opportunities to reduce overtime.
Consistent
Flexible
Visualize Your Schedule
After finalizing the schedule, you can share it with your employees. Because it’s cloud-based software, everyone from your planners/schedulers to supers, techs, operations personnel, and managers can get customized access.
This ensures that everyone can access the information they need, whenever they need it.
Live KPIs
Verified Data
KPIs & Bad Actors Program Management
Sockeye tracks every keystroke to ensure that all data is verifiable, up to date and easily reported on. SMRP reports are automatically created, easily shareable and customized to your criteria. Easily track what work was missed and why and integrate with Microsoft Power BI to help with Bad Actors Program Management.
Ready for the next step?
Tired of scheduling blind?
Free Trial
Sockeye’s live free trial uses an Excel sheet as the data connector with SAP. That means deployment takes an average of 2 weeks & no IT resources are needed. Simply run an IW37N and populate Sockeye’s Excel Template with your ready-to-schedule work orders and shift patterns – and we’ll take care of the rest.
The best part? Intuitive design means it takes less than 1 hour to train.
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