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In the world of product development and manufacturing, the bill of materials (BOM) is a critical product information record for both the engineering and manufacturing teams. Traditionally, BOMs have been created and updated in spreadsheets, and communicated to internal teams, outsourced manufacturers and suppliers via email, phone or fax. Usually, final BOMs are also loaded into the ERP systems. However, compressed product lifecycles, geographically dispersed project teams, cost pressures, outsourced partnerships, and stringent regulatory requirements are challenging the traditional BOM management and communication in a number of ways.

Underperforming assets can have many far-reaching—and negative—impacts on the overall health of a company. Asset downtime can disrupt production and lead to lower customer satisfaction. Inadequate preventive maintenance can increase the cost of keeping assets and equipment running at peak efficiency and force companies to make investments in new equipment that could have been avoided. Inadequate asset management can expose companies to violations of safety regulations and compliance requirements.

Hospitals and healthcare facilities like yours face increasing pressures to grow operating margins and comply with regulatory standards, even as you strive to meet your primary mission—providing high quality patient care. As the healthcare industry focuses on achieving top-line growth, it faces a major challenge in managing medical equipment, which includes tracking and managing mobile assets, complying with ever-changing regulatory standards, guarding against equipment failures, and managing clinical equipment inventory. All this is complicated by the increasingly important role of energy usage, and the need to ensure higher asset performance at a lower energy cost.

For many years, your company has relied on Infor™ EAM MP2 to manage your assets, inventory, and maintenance processes. But your business has changed. Energy and other costs have climbed dramatically, and competition is fierce. You need to streamline your processes; get actionable visibility into performance issues in real time; and easily adapt to changes in your business. You need to get more value from your assets. With an upgrade to Infor10 EAM, you can. And there are many reasons why you should.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model as part of the Web 2.0 revolution is considered a very attractive, viable and cost effective solution for delivery of business applications to businesses of all sizes. This has become more apparent in the delivery of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), also known as Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), where increased internet availability to maintenance and facility management departments of organizations is occurring everywhere. To evaluate whether a SaaS solution is a good fit for your organization, it is helpful to understand what the SaaS model is and how it compares to traditional, premises-based CMMS solutions.