SAP Work Order Scheduling & Reporting Bolt-On
Missed Opportunities
SAP Scheduling Process
SAP/Excel Scheduling Kills Reliability
Scheduling with SAP requires ongoing time-consuming training; it’s hard to visualize the schedule, and when emergency work occurs, you scramble to adjust.
Most SAP maintenance schedulers opt for planning in SAP and scheduling in Excel.
Labor availability is missing, 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 & the backlog keeps growing.
Time-Consuming
Avg. 5+ Hours Every Week
IW37N, Copy & Paste Lost 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
Tracking Labor
Is Frank available?
Scheduling Blind
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?
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
How Much PM Was Done This Week?
Excel schedules inconsistent data create inconsistent KPIs that are hard to trust, hard to access and time-consuming to report on. Missing critical reports like how much PM is performed each week, compromises your ability to translate insight into improvement.
Work Order Scheduling & Reporting
Seamless SAP Bolt-On
Maximize SAP
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. 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. The available hours tab displays employee availability based on your shift patterns and planned absences. Editing is a breeze. Changes are tracked and data is automatically updated in SAP for real-time insights.
Your SAP Backlog
Automated Assignment
Minimal Click Schedules
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, planners, schedulers, 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
SMRP & Custom KPIs
Sockeye tracks every keystroke to ensure that all data is verifiable, up to date and easily reported on. SMRP reports are automatically created, easily sharable and customized to your criteria. Easily track critical KPIs, like how much PM is performed each week and integrate with Microsoft Power BI for even richer insights.
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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