In a marketplace, where periods of competitive differentiation are measured in weeks or months rather than years, success or failure of an enterprise often hinges on the capability and performance of its assets. As a result, organizations are increasingly focusing on asset maintenance to achieve hardware and software management, license compliance, regulatory compliance, and security.

To enable high-performing assets, companies must answer strategic questions, including: How to increase the life of assets? How to predict and prevent upcoming breakdowns to minimize unplanned downtime? How to reduce the frequency of accidents and lost time?

Study Scope

Business performance benchmarking for high-performing assets has been leveraged by over 150 companies, and includes the following studies:

• Enterprise asset management
• Environment, health, and safety (EH&S) compliance

Example Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Enterprise Asset Management	EH&S Compliance
Overall equipment effectiveness Average age of assets Unplanned downtime Asset maintenance cost	Environmental incident rate Lost time accident frequency Cost per lost time accident EH&S costs

Example Insight

Best practice: Asset performance/output analysis is conducted to augment productivity and asset efficiency while simultaneously raising availability, reliability, and safety.

Participation

Participation in benchmarking is free of charge. Register now to participate in benchmarking and for more information. If you have general questions regarding SAP benchmarking program initiatives, contact us at benchmarking@sap.com.