Works & Asset Management

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

In the mid 1990s CitiPower and Powercor Australia implemented SAP Enterprise Asset Management solutions to consolidate our systems and improve asset management processes. 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 
Construction Project Estimating

The template includes a complete construction project estimating tool, featuring direct links to the material master, labour activities and rates. You also have the ability to automatically progress an estimate to an approved construction project for the field. Functionality includes:

  • Ability to create Work Orders for major and minor, capital and maintenance works
  • Integration to SAP Materials, Plant Maintenance, Projects, and Financials to provide accurate costing data from standard SAP objects
  • A discretionary input allowance for non-standard data
  • Simple cut and paste facilities to enable transfer of data into separate estimates
  • Commercial consideration inputs such as profit and contingency
  • Instantaneous summary reports
  • Technical Standards design display
Customer Project Management

The template incorporates advanced functionality for the management of Customer/Contract projects. This functionality has been developed to enable a utility business to manage, monitor and report on all activities associated with the extension of assets for both customer initiated and system augmentation type projects in a manner not supported by SAP "out of the box".

Enhancements

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 
Reporting

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.

More Information

For further information on the SAP Works and Asset Management Template, please contact:

Tony Matheson
SAP Applications Manager
Powercor Australia Ltd - Citipower Pty
Email tmatheson@powercor.com.au
Phone 03 5327 2361
Mobile 0418 336 436

Carl Schubert
IT Business Delivery Manager
Powercor Australia Ltd - Citipower Pty
Email cschubert@powercor.com.au
Phone 03 9683 4047
Mobile 0419 531 360