The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the need for remote monitoring and diagnostics of operations and assets. As supply chain planning is impacted from all directions, maintenance can be the steady, reliable part of the puzzle that helps get things back on track.

Across any supply chain, hundreds of critical functions keep things moving. The sales team works with customers. The accounting team tracks finances, customer support maintains relationships, plus logistics, shipping, scheduling, human resources, and many more contribute to overall operations. In typical supply chain management, the value of maintenance for buildings, plants, machinery, and vehicles is often overlooked. But maintenance alone has the power to bring the supply chain to a halt in minutes.

Benefits of Smart Maintenance for Stronger Supply chain management

Maximize longevity for buildings, plants, machines, and vehicles.
Improve throughput, quality, and uptime.
Reduce costly machine failures and unplanned shutdowns.
Improve working conditions, especially regarding safety.

Modules of smart maintenance model

Reactive Maintenance: Reactive maintenance works well for tools and items that are part of the supply chain planning but aren’t likely to disrupt if they go offline. Every plant or manufacturing facility has items like these that fall outside the rigors of a more advanced maintenance program.
Preventive Maintenance: As the foundation that other maintenance approaches build on, preventive maintenance means fixing and maintaining before failure can happen.
Remote condition-based monitoring: This approach refines preventive maintenance by implementing wireless sensors that relay data to a maintenance manager. Now instead of performing preventive inspections on a monthly schedule, for example, supply chain maintenance can be performed whenever the data says it’s necessary.
Predictive Maintenance: Accurate predictions rely on quality data. Predictive maintenance brings together data and technology to accurately inform the maintenance schedule for stronger supply chain management.
Cognitive Maintenance: As the most technologically advanced approach to maintenance, cognitive maintenance helps ensure that equipment is in good working order. But it also helps optimize your workforce, production, sales, and customer satisfaction by eliminating downtime and increasing throughput.

Transform your maintenance workloads from reactive to cognitive to become a factory of the future.

The Key takeaways:

Accelerate your move to proactive maintenance with the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management software. Improve uptime, throughput, and quality by proactively managing the shop floor and equipment operations with the help of this supply chain planning software. Save time on maintenance across the company as issues are identified more quickly and identify potential risks and take action to prevent supply chain failures.

Korcomptenz is a Microsoft Gold Partner that offers turnkey, cost-effective ERP solutions that help accelerate business operations, generate meaningful insights into the business, and promote digital transformation. Our supply chain solutions are suitable for various industries, such as manufacturing, retail, eCommerce, and logistics. We offer a range of supply chain management services, including implementation services, managed services, advisory, and consultancy, upgrade and migration, system integration, and support and maintenance.