Improve SAP Equipment Record Timeliness and Accuracy
Maintaining timely and accurate equipment records helps drive data consistency in the SAP system, whether the data is loaded from Excel, Access, or another external system. Failure to consistently maintain SAP equipment records can lead to incomplete maintenance schedules, incorrect asset or cost accounting, and confusion.
A company might use a non-SAP configuration management database (CMDB) for its equipment. However, the company still needs to update its SAP system to account for the financial and descriptive attributes of its equipment. Maintaining this data in multiple repositories can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially if workers enter records manually.