I am looking for some practical examples of KPI's together with the Balanced Score Card in Datastream 7i.
I am looking for responses of other Datastream users

Best regards

I'm curious whether DATASTREAM can provide the Mitchell's maintenance KPIs as contained in the following link:
http://www.maintenancebenchmarking.com/best_practice_maintenance.htm

Datastream could supply about 85% of these Performamce Indicators it is a CMMS not an ERP (that was invented by accountants)

Total manufacturing costs, not without input of other programs (Oracle Financials in our case), The stores and procurement etc. are in datastream

Overtime, only maintenance overtime because it is registered in the work orders. We do not use it for the payroll. HR must have something to do.

Safety Performance? Don't know, but there are far more better programs.

If from 650 employees only 80 are super-users (maintenance, stores, procurement, project administration) and 200 have access for work requests, purchase requests, tracking of goods arrival etc., there is no need to do all the bussiness processes in one program.

I think that the main reasons why ERP (SAP) implementations fail, is that they are too big.

The safety department would ask me what they need datastream for except when ordering OSHA related books.

Regards

Dear Sir / Madam,

Datastream were promoting, very strongly recently, their product called Performance Management (or something similar) Which was a collection of indicators aimed at asset performance and improvement.

I have seen this and personally, find it to be a good representation of some general aspects of asset management.

However, as normal, I would suggest that any measurement regime based on monitoring performance will highlight some areas of poor performance. However, in order to truly come to grips woth a proactive use of indicators to drive performance, rather than merely report poor performance, it is neccesary to create them in relation to the goals and requirements of the organization.

I recently published a book on this issues called The Maintenance Scorecard, which is available through Amazon and goes into this in some detail.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0831131810

Some "data-dipping" products that may be of interest to you, all of which come with some form of ready made table of generic indicators, includes:

Obviant (Excellent for the utilities industries)
CorVu (Mining and other capital intensive arenas)
Bussiness Objects (Market leader)
Crystal reports (Good for smaller applications)


All of these products are able to tie into the database system that you have, in fact to most systems, and to produce rapidly some form of measurement regime.

Hope this is of some use.

Daryl Mather
www.strategic-advantages.com