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I stopped over to the house on Saturday, stepped into the foyer of the house, and could see all the way up to the underside of the roof. Everything is ripped down to the basic orgininal framing.
I took a ba-zillion photos, but unless you're in the space and seeing it with your own eyes, it all looks pretty much the same. That won't be the case for long, however. Ayesha is a much more talented photographer than I am, and she managed to get some really great shots, and a few of me standing amidst the ruins. (I'll see if I can't get her to do a guest post for the blog).
This week the contractor and his crew are working on ripping out the old framing that needs to be adjusted on each floor – there are only a few original walls that will be rebuilt in the same locations.
In the meantime, we're starting to contemplate our options for windows, fixtures, and everything else that needs to go in once the draywalling happens over the next couple of weeks.


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Teachers live at schoolThis section contains beliefs all on a common theme: Teachers live at school.
my little brother was shocked when his teacher asked him to get something from the store-room at the back of the class.he thought that it was her bedroom n that all the teachers slept at school in the night and lived in the staff-room!
I used to believe that all teachers stayed at school every night and threw slumber parties with the other teachers because for some reason my old school used to always smell like popcorn. It was wierd.
When I was in grade school, my friend told me that at night, the teachers slept naked on our work tables. From that point on I was always disgusted when we had to do a project at the work tables.
I used to believe my teachers lived in the classroom. It was a total shock the first time I saw one of them in a supermarket.
Until first grade, I thought all the teachers lived at school with all the other teachers. They didn't have a family or kids of their own and I also thought they called the other teachers by Mr. or Mrs. too!
As a teacher, I sometimes have reason to call my the homes of my students. One evening, around 6:30pm I called to check on a student who had been out sick for a while. I told her that the class missed her and that we were looking forward to having her back. The next day, she came in and asked me where the phone was that I called her from. She peered around the room, apparently wondering where I hid it. It dawned on me that she thought I called her from the classroom and so I informed her that I called from home. She looked at me wide eyed and said, "You mean you don't live here?" Looking back, I remembered a time when I too believed my teachers lived in their classrooms!
When I was little, my Dad told me that teachers never left school. When I got there in the morning, they were there. When I left, they were there. One time I saw my teacher at Safeway and I said "What are YOU doing here?!"
when i was little i used to believe that the teachers never left school. they just lived there. even in the summer.
My old primary school had an upstairs that was out of bounds, and I was convinced that must be where the teachers slept.
When I was younger I thought the teachers lived in there classrooms and it would freak me out when I saw them outside of school.
i used to think teachers lived in the classrooms b/c they were there before you came and after you left.
I was absolutely sure that teachers lived at school. One day, my friends and I leaned down to the ground and heard noises from under the floor. We deduced that it was our teacher's husband watching football and eating popcorn (very detailed, huh?). We told her that we knew her secret, expecting her to be amazed at our detective skills. She cracked up. Still, I refused to believe it until I visited my first grade teacher at her house. I felt like a retard.
i used 2 believe thsat the janotor lived inside the storege closet because every day when i left school he'd walk in to there.And he always seemed to be at the school before me.
When I was about 7 I thought that teachers lived at school year-round. My mates and I would dare each other to look in the teacher's lounge to see if there were beds in there. We never did. Then one day I had to take a note to the teacher's lounge and i discovered no beds. I figured they were in the closet.
When we got to ask any question we wanted to the first thing that came out of my mouth was "Where are the beds? Why don't you live at home with your husband?" My teacher had hystarics. During confrence time my teacher told my mum and dad about my question. They cracked like eggs. OMG!
I used to believe that the primary school teachers would sleep in the classroom cupboards becuase they were there before I arrived and after I left.
When I was young like in 1st or 2nd grade i used to believe that the teachers lived above the ceilings of their classrooms or the hallways. So you can imagine my surprise one day when a) i saw the custodian and my teacher in her room on a ladder looking into the ceiling, i automatically thought that she and the custodian were married and lived up there and b) when the technician came and i asked him what is it like up in the teachers houses in the ceiling and he just laughed and patted my head... i later told my mom and she laughed and then told me the truth.
I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!
When i first started school i thought that the teachers lived at school and slept on the bean bags in the reading area. I believed that until I was about nine.
Also when my older cousin was staying with us for a while he told me he was god, I was only three at the time and was especially nice to him from then on, (only when i shared the secret with my mum, was i corrected).
It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...
I used to think that my teachers lived at the school and slept in the closets. although I found out that this was not true when I was 6, up until last year i still believed that teachers did not have social lives. When my study hall teacher said that he was getting married, I blurted out, "Oh my gosh you have a love life!?!?!"
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I have again had two poems published in the Australian poetry zine Have your Chill, edited by Pete Spence. As usual, when Pete sends out his contributor copies, he includes a gift collage.
Saturday, 27 October 2018
Two poems by Gary Cummiskey published in Have your Chill
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Monday, 08 October 2018
Editor needed for New Coin
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New Coin is looking for a new editor to begin work in January 2019 (first issue: June 2019).
The editor should have a good sense of the range of genres and sub-cultures in South African poetry today, and be willing to engage constructively with new writing and writers.
The main responsibilities would be:
· selecting and compiling material for each issue
(two issues a year – typically 50 poets submit work to each issue)
· selecting cover art for each issue
· identifying and selecting new books to review, and finding knowledgeable reviewers
· corresponding with poets, notifying them of acceptances and rejections, as well as making constructive editorial suggestions
· appointing a judge for the annual DALRO Prize
· liaising with the designer of New Coin on production matters
· proofreading
· maintaining the New Coin page on Facebook
· promotion of New Coin
· liaison on administrative matters with the publisher – the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.
The editor can be based anywhere in South Africa. He or she will have the support of an editorial advisory board appointed by the ISEA. A small stipend is paid for the work.
If you're interested, please send a letter of motivation spelling out your vision for the future of the journal, together with a short CV, to firstname.lastname@example.com before 31 October 2018.
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Steampunk Morning
This digital illustration was selected for publication in the iPad Artists All Included steampunk edition.
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The Decanter
Rich colors come from a triple exposure.
If you'd like a glimpse into how an image like this evolves, check out my video, "Morphing."
The Dancer
While playing around with the Percolator app, little watercolor bubbles appeared that began to resemble a dance hall.
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Make students believe in themselves by developing there abilities,improving communication skills and building self confidence. Personality Development is the growth and development of the thinking, perception, attitude, nature, mood, behavior and activities that differentiate among people. It is a tool to bring out one's abilities and powers for making himself aware of his inner self and become more confident to face the outside world. Personality means uniqueness, individuality and appearance of a person and his/her reflection of thinking, emotions, behavior, communication skills and corporeal characteristics.
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Automotive manufacturer, TVS Motor Company, has reported an over 5 per cent dip in total sales for May 2012 compared to the corresponding period last year.
"TVS Motor Company registered total sales of 1,76,012 units in May 2012 against 1,85,930 units registered in May 2011," a company release here said.
Total two-wheeler sales stood at 1,73,092 against 1,81,891 units and three-wheeler sales stood at 2,920 units compared with 4,039 units.
Exports stood at 22,817 units (26,168 units), the release said.
Cumulative sales for April-May, 2012 stood at 3,50,467 units against 3,53,674 units recorded in the previous comparable period, the release added.


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When Seth and Rebecca Pace return to South Asia this summer, they will be taking their new baby girl, along with their 4 sons. The Paces are thankful for this sweet and healthy addition to their family and ask prayer for a smooth return to the field. Pray for their boys' transition and a good start to homeschooling for the family.
The Paces work in a largely unreached field. In their part of South Asia, they are surrounded by both Muslims and Hindus. They and their colleagues seek to partner with South Asians who would be committed coworkers. Ask God to raise up the right people at the right time so that the Paces can learn from them and they can learn from the Paces to effectively evangelize and disciple the lost in their communities.
Life in South Asia is very relational. The lines are blurry between home life and ministry. A friendly conversation with a mother on the playground can lead to her participation in Rebecca's safety and self-protection classes. Seth's most important conversations at a training event may take place at break time over a cup of tea. Pray the Paces would be sensitive to God's Spirit as they discern the difference between normal curiosity and true interest. Ask God to lead them to those He is preparing to know Him more.
Seth and Rebecca Pace are featured in the June 2019 Missions Mosaic Missionary Spotlight article.
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Danette High served many years in South Asia and writes prayerfully about the joys and challenges of serving in one of the most fascinating regions of the world.


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Poetry Sessions: Fear Of Change
I stumbled up to the shaky cliff, knees buckling as I walked. I looked over at the uncharted waters waving at me sarcastically, almost chuckling at my anxiety. I glanced deeper into the shadowy sea, scared of what was to come. If I jump, I risk it all: my security, familiarity, and routine. But […]Read More


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Meet Our Staff!
LACIE MCGOWAN RINKUS is the proud Assistant director and Co-Owner of Anna Marie School of Dance. Dancing with her mom, Anna Marie, Lacie began her love for the performing arts when she could walk! Lacie was trained at AMSD in ballet, tap, jazz, funk, lyrical, musical theatre and acrobatics. She also trained in gymnastics at Pottsville Gymnastics Training Center and was a member of the HAHS competitive cheerleading program. Lacie continued her studies traveling regularly to Broadway Dance Center and The Pulse Conventions while competing and attending workshops along the east coast throughout her tween years. She got her break at age 14, auditioning and being accepted into Crazy Cee Productions Hip-Hop Dance Company based out of Queens, NY. Lacie spent time traveling in the company and performing for names including LL Cool J, P-Star, Cicely and Olisa (Nu-Stylz), Shane Sparx and more. Her titles include Miss Performing Arts Alliance talent titles and Miss Talent Olympics Decathlon Winner. In 2007, Lacie began her college career at Temple University in Philadelphia studying Therapeutic Recreation with a focus in Dance Therapy. While at Temple, she was a 3 year member and captain of the nationally ranked Diamond Gems Dance Team. Lacie traveled the country with her competitive dance team while cheering on the Owls at NCAA tournaments and Bowl Games. Upon graduating in 2012, Lacie followed her roots back to AMSD and joined the competition staff permanently. Lacie specializes in hip hop, jazz and contemporary styles of dance... she can't wait to share her passion with you!
CHARISA REGGIE is the first born daughter of local dance entrepreneur Anna Marie McGowan. She is the proud Assistant Director and Co-owner of Anna Marie School of Dance. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education and a Master's Degree in Instructional Technology. At the age of 1, Charisa stepped onto the stage for her very first recital at AMSD (and we've got the pics to prove it!). She was a lifelong student at AMSD, studying in all areas including ballet, tap, jazz, funk, musical theater, lyrical and acrobatics. At the age of 8, Charisa's dance career took a focus in tap when she began privately training under the direction of the legendary David Blight. She began traveling regularly to local conventions and workshops, training weekly at Broadway Dance Center in New York City under the direction of professional tap dancer Savion Glover. Charisa studied gymnastics at Apollo Gymnastics Center and Pottsville Training Center and was also a four year member of the Hazleton Area High School competitive cheerleading team. Throughout her competitive dance career, Charisa received numerous overall titles including Miss Funfest, Miss Talent Olympics, and Miss Performing Arts Alliance. She earned the Broadway Dance Center Scholarship for the highest scoring tap routine at PAA. Charisa reigned as Greater Hazleton's Outstanding Young Woman in 2002 and competed for the state title of Miss Pennsylvania Outstanding Young Woman. Winning the talent portion of the local competition, she earned her top place with a tacit style advanced tap dance. Following high school, she continued her dance career at Bloomsburg University as a head choreographer of the BU Dance Ensemble as well as a member of the BU Competition Dance Team. In 2007, Charisa returned to follow in her mother's footsteps at AMSD, and accepted the position of head competition tap teacher. In addition to her dedication to AMSD, Charisa is currently a Math Teacher at the Hazleton Area High School and former dance instructor at the Hazleton Area Academy of Arts and Humanities. Charisa and her husband Nico are the proud parents of three awesome kids- Jaxon, Jaymin, and Milani. Charisa invites you to slip on your tap shoes and make some NOISE!
KATIE JACOBS started her dance career at AMSD at the age 3! Katie was a dedicated competition dancer for 16 years and studied tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, lyrical, modern and gymnastics. Katie earned multiple titles throughout her career, finishing off her senior season being named Miss Performing Arts Alliance. Katie graduated from Hazleton Area High School in 2009 where she was a 4-year member of the Varsity Competitive Cheerleading Team. Katie continued her studies at Delaware Valley University in which she was a 4-year member of Students for Diversity Step Team and 2-year member of the DVU Cheerleading Team. She holds a Bachelors Degree majoring in Zoo Science, in hopes to one day become a zoo keeper. Katie followed her heart back to AMSD in 2013, where she is now entering her 5th season as a core teacher. When Katie isn't dancing, you can find her at PetSmart where she is a certified pet trainer!
MELISSA LOMAX is an alumni member of AMSD! Melissa was a Hazleton Are High School Varsity cheerleader where she served as co-captain of her team and choreographed dance routines. Melissa is currently a Physical Therapist Assistant and also holds a Kinesiology degree from Pennsylvania State University. She relocated back to the Hazleton Area six years ago and reconnected with AMSD through her daughter MyKayla. Melissa became a proud "dance mom" and guided MyKayla as she advanced through the ranks with her competitive performances. She ultimately joined staff for the past 3 years where she specializes in jazz and tap styles of dance. She currently directs both group and individual competitive and recreational classes. Melissa brings her unique energy and passion into every class ... and she can't wait to share that with you!
BRIANNA KUBISHIN is currently a student at Misericordia University. In 2019, she will graduate with a Master's Degree in Occupational Therapy with minors in Psychology and Gerontology. Brianna has been dancing since the age of 3, winning Jazz Dancer of the Year at age 9! When she is not dancing or studying, Brianna works at PRO Rehabilitation Services and she is also a tutor at Misericordia. Brianna has held multiple scholarship pageant titles within the past few years including Miss Greater Hazleton 2016 and Miss Hershey Area 2017. While holding these titles, she competed for the title of Miss Pennsylvania and performed a tap routine as her talent. Brianna loves children and has been a private babysitter for the past 6 years for families up to 4 children! She cannot wait to share her love of the performing arts with all of our students and families!
BRITTANY MADURO began dancing at the age of 3! For 15 years, she dedicated her time dancing competitively in tap, jazz, ballet and acrobatics. During her 4 years of high school, Brittany was a member of the Hazleton Area Varsity Competitive Cheerleading Team. She graduated from HAHS in 2011 and continued her education at McCann School of Business and Technology, earning a degree in Surgical Technology. Brittany is entering her 6th season as an AMSD staff member and she specializes in ballet and acro training. She can't wait to flip with you!
NICOLE BEREZNAK is currently a sophomore at Wilkes University, majoring in Early Childhood Education. She has studied various forms of dance since the age of 4 and enjoys every moment of it! Her most recent studies and performances have been hip-hop, jazz and modern. When Nicole is not dancing, she is employed at Robert Steven's Face and Body. She is also a private babysitter and an avid shopper! Nicole is continuing her dance studies and is honored to be staff at AMSD this season. She is very excited meet all of our students and make this year the best one yet!
Tiffany Yarish has been involved in the cheerleading and dance world for over 20 years. A former Hazleton Area High School & East Stroudsburg University cheerleader, she has coached at the All-Star, Junior Varsity, and Varsity levels. Some of her titles include back to back PA State Champions, Grand Champions at several events, and over 20 first place championships. Many of her former cheerleaders have gone on to cheer at the collegiate level and even for NFL teams. Tiffany has been judging all levels of cheer and dance for several years which includes working for American Cheer and Dance Academy, Champion Spirit Group, American Cheer Power, and American Cheer and Dance Extreme. She was the director and choreographer for the professional dance team - The Diamond City Dancers for five years and due to her cheer knowledge earned an article published in American Cheerleader Magazine. Tiffany continues to enjoy working with all ages and sharing her love of cheerleading and dance with all. GO DIVAS!
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Sarah Maggs has been dancing for 10 years, 7 of those years being competitive. She grew up at a studio in Florida called Kelly's Dance Academy but moved to KForce Dance Center a few years ago where she found her biggest inspiration, Kimberly Willis. She continued to grow with Kimberly and she has taken on her style of dance. At both studios, she has assisted and instructed dancers of all ages. She is trained in many dance styles including Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Musical Theater, Lyrical, Acro and Ballroom. In her competitive experience, she has traveled to multiple states and taken classes from professional dancers such as Robert Roldan, Kathryn McCormick, Valerie Rockey and Lauren Froderman from So You Think You Can Dance, Dejan Tubic, Zachary Venegas, Tommy Alexander and many more. Sarah currently attends Penn State University (Hazleton campus), majoring in Forensic Science while still pursuing dance in her future. Her life has always revolved around dance and she could never imagine her life without it. Her dance teacher back in Florida is her 2nd mom and best friend, she aspires to be the same for her dance students. Her passion for dance will never fade, no matter where life takes her and she looks forward to sharing that with everyone at AMSD!


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Every week we read news articles, tweets, or blogs about new technologies that have the potential to disrupt our business and personal lives in profound ways. Many of these new technologies are impacting the CPG industry and dramatically changing the way consumers research and shop for products. These changes are also impacting CPG supply chains and the methods in which manufacturers and retailers get their goods to market. The digital revolution before us presents enormous opportunities and challenges across the end-to-end consumer value chain.
John will share his perspective and insights on some of the technologies that have the greatest potential to drive dramatic change across the CPG consumer value chain. These technologies include augmented reality, smart shelves, autonomous in-store robots, wearables, image recognition, self-driving vehicles, IoT devices, drones, micro-fulfillment centres, and many others.
Join John for an exciting and thought-provoking session exploring how industry leaders can leverage these technologies to be at the forefront of driving transformational change in their organizations.
"You cannot manage what you cannot see." This adage has been around for decades and exemplifies the challenges that supply chain managers have dealt with when they do not have visibility of segments of their supply chain. Traditional supply chain management techniques such as safety stocks and lead time buffers are used to minimize the occurrences of material shortages and excesses. This frequently results from a lack of visibility of what is happening across multiple supply chain partners.
This session will provide examples and customer stories of how advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Virtualization are providing solutions for age-old supply chain challenges where poor visibility of inbound, outbound, and internal material flows result in stock outs, plant disruptions, and excess and obsolete inventory.
• Improving performance in customer service and inventory management
• New applications and innovative approaches to supply chain management
• Customer examples across multiple industries for improving supply chain performance
Everyone agrees that innovation is important. Emerging technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning (ML), and Internet of Things (IoT) provide new possibilities for redesigning existing business processes and creating entirely new business processes. Whether it pertains to the invention of new innovative products or the reengineering of business processes for efficiency and/or effectiveness, innovation is considered an essential component of any company that is successful today and will continue to be successful tomorrow. Unfortunately, practically all companies share many of the same impairing characteristics that prohibit and constrain new, innovative ideas. This session will focus on:
• Examples of how SAP customers are using new applications and technologies to improve customer engagement, reduce operational costs, and run more effectively overall,
• Thoughts for bolstering new ideas and innovative processes, and
• How SAP is enabling business process innovation with technology and a formal approach to ideation and innovation realization.
With 69 of the world's top 100 economies being businesses, Procurement functions have a unique opportunity to leverage spend in a way that drives positive social, environmental and economic outcomes. As Australia's largest regulated energy solutions provider, Ausgrid recognized sustainability as a critical gap in its strategy and sought to design and implement a sustainable procurement framework focused on delivering innovative solutions with sustainable outcomes. This process challenged traditional practices and required sustainability to be embedded in the end to end procurement process. It required collaboration with its suppliers and industry partners to understand supply complexities including the use of SAP Ariba to gain greater transparency of the value chain.
Ausgrid are using Ariba to map the supplier network by asking for deeper information, gaining a complete picture of our supplier's process to ensure we uphold fair and sustainable practices. Their journey continues now with the introduction of the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act. In response, Ausgrid is leading the development of a cross-industry Code to drive best practice along the world's longest supply chains. Sustainability is now recognized as a value lever and Procurement the strategic enabler differentiating businesses in socially conscious market.
Many companies are investing in Digital Transformation across the enterprise. Manufacturing is being enticed with old and new technologies marketed on the banner of Industry 4.0 & the Industrial Internet of Things.
What are the SAP capabilities to deliver Manufacturing Transformation and how could Industry 4.0 be enabled?
Lion has made progress leveraging SAP Manufacturing Intelligence and Integration (MII). Neil will explore the opportunities for Manufacturing Transformation in FMCG and how SAP modules can enable Manufacturing Transformation on the shopfloor.
Rio Tinto is a multinational mining company with 60 operations and projects in 35 countries, supported by a centrally coordinated procurement team. The company has been using SAP ECC and Ariba for nearly 10 years and last year started on a journey to transform our approach to procurement, making our overall process more efficient and simpler for end users.
Procurement looked at improving processes and identified potential technology enablers. After engagements with multiple stakeholders, the company firmed up guiding principles and roadmap for upcoming years, identifying opportunities to deliver value within our existing core system landscape. This also allows procurement to test simpler processes and systems ahead of an eventual change to cloud-based core business solutions.
Our focus has been on connecting digitally with our suppliers, natural language search for our maintenance planners to reduce free text, and automatic contract management for our contractors. These are three examples of how we leverage our existing investments, improve user experience, and focus on improving controls over key value drivers – using digital tools to deliver improved results in our inbound supply chain.
Leading tyre company Bridgestone has revolutionised its commercial fleet customer support through its innovative B|mobile platform. Using tablet technology, Bridgestone has streamlined maintenance, reporting and invoicing, as well as used real-time data to guide business decisions.
The B|mobile application, created on the SAP Fiori platform, digitized a previously manual workflow to better serve its customers. With a user-friendly interface, configured and developed in conjunction with Think180, Bridgestone has increased the productivity of its service fitters and transformed the commercial tyre industry.
B|mobile enables Bridgestone to be more efficient, accurate and transparent in maintaining customer fleets, with integrated invoicing and reporting. The project demonstrates BSANZ's market leadership in technological initiatives in the tyre industry, using a continuous improvement development approach to improve the overall customer experience.
Ballance created a customer experience platform called MyBallance that focused on putting the customer's farm at their fingertips and allowed an end to end view of their interactions with Ballance. The challenge was to match this with a supply chain that could support and enable this experience.
A Ballance customer can work varying hours so supply chain for them means:
• easy to order nutrients
• easy to collect nutrients
• and easy to trace where those have been applied
To meet this expectation, we'll look at where our MyBallance journey started and how using our core technologies of SAPS4 Hana, C4Hana Commerce and Marketing, GIS, Fiori and Neptune are disrupting the traditional nutrient supply chain with the following:
• Easy to order – Our MyBallance platform
• Easy to collect – Two innovations that were enabled by our core platform - our Self-Service Silos and our Loader App
• Easy to apply – MyBallance integration with commercial spreaders which results in proof of application spatially displayed in MyBallance.
With transportation costs skyrocketing, Texan-based chemical manufacturer and distributer, KMG Chemicals, needed a 360-degree view of drivers and loads in real time to manage the transportation process. Using SAP Cloud Platform, application program interfaces, and the SAP Analytics Cloud solution, KMG built a cloud check-in solution for shipments and driver activity. Results were lower costs and longer lead times for tendering, moving the needle for the business.
See how KMG started using the SAP Cloud Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud to provide quick wins by rapid solution delivery. Learn how this is now the driving factor to transform the shop floor and optimize and transform the processes that for years were left untouched.
Frikkie will share how the business and IT organizations drive solution delivery together, where team members are excited and how organization structures are adjusting to support and adopt a new way of doing business. Frikkie's experience includes learnings from two cloud first solutions saving both time and money.
Cleco is a regional energy holding company with seventeen generating assets in Louisiana and Mississippi. On May 6, 2019 they became North America's first Utility to implement S4/HANA.
This included Customer Information System (CIS), Financial Systems, Supply Chain (Purchasing and Inventory Management), and Work & Asset Management for all Operating Areas (Generation, Transmission, Distribution).
Prior to the implementation, Cleco utilized a disparate group of work and asset management systems. Cleco's goals in implementing wall to wall S/4 HANA were standardization across lines of business for reporting and resource optimization; Cleco – in growth mode - wanted an architecture that the acquired companies could buy into and seamlessly integrate to. From an Asset Management perspective, they wanted to improve efficiency, reduce costs, capture and transfer knowledge, make better decisions on capital and O&M spend, and improve reliability and availability. To do this, Cleco have implemented the following:
Two years ago, SAP announced its intention to provide a solution to allow asset managers to manage asset strategy and performance in a solution that is natively integrated to the core SAP ERP platform. With quarterly cloud releases the capabilities of this solution are continually expanding, and now deliver Risk and Criticality, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Risk Based Inspection. This session will provide an overview of the current capabilities and the future roadmap for this solution, directly from the owners themselves.
In January 2019, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) published a new application note for Network Service Providers (NSP). This document provides details on regulatory expectations on the relevant electric utilities to demonstrate prudency and efficiency in asset investment planning decisions.
This presentation will share the experience on how ElectraNet, the South Australian transmission utility, have been preparing for the increasing regulatory scrutiny on asset expenditure as well as aligning with ISO 55000 requirements.
This session will discuss the strategic decisions taken including the renewed focus on SAP and SAP PartnerEdge members (PowerPlan), the development of predictive risk models, utilisation of SAP inspection fields, the change implementation strategy and the assessment of predictive outcomes. The asset classes consist of linear and non-linear assets as well as control software systems. The topics will explain how to define failure modes, determine failure rate, monetise consequences and conduct scenario analysis.
CenterPoint Energy, a leading electric utility, have significantly improved their process to select at-risk equipment for refurbishment/replacement. They developed health score models and implemented SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service (PdMS).
Dan will share past experiences, their road map and an introduction to CenterPoint's maintenance practices – including its work on PdMS. He'll also discuss what triggered CenterPoint to start using PdMS, their experience with the product, and their plans for future use of PdMS.
Whether you are just starting you journey towards the Intelligent Enterprise, investigating how to adopt data science and machine learning approaches, or you are a seasoned traveller, there are some key principles to achieving success. Shared in the context of case studies, this session will focus on practical steps for asset-intensive organisations to move from data mining hell towards data mining heaven, allowing them to support more advanced Condition-Based and Predictive Maintenance approaches.
It would be easy to take what you do now, analyse it, think to yourself it's pretty good and then put in a system that supports what you think is a reasonable process. Powerco use GIS which allows for asset data to be merged with geospatial data. They've since implemented a Geo Enablement Framework (GEF) POC to further enhance the solution, allowing them to gain geospatial tools for network analysis and asset data information for financial analysis.
GEF allows work to be issued directly from a map, optimising the issuing based on work type and area to ensure a more efficient work force. It is also used for major events on the network as the geolocation of work can assist to triage the restore effort and assist in keeping customers informed on when their power and gas will return on their premise.
Trent will show you that to succeed, you cannot go meekly into a new system or update or rest on the laurels of standard SAP. He'll share the lessons Powerco learnt from going beyond the norm and the value of doing so. Identifying these opportunities are at the forefront of a system change. Think big about how you would like to work, then find ways to make it happen. To not do this would be a missed opportunity.
This session provides a global perspective on what SAP is seeing within their customers, including how asset-intensive organisations are looking to improve collaboration, asset health, and execution.
Patrick will highlight how SAP's overall solution strategy (including both the SAP S/4HANA Asset Management and the SAP Intelligent Asset Management cloud portfolio) is assisting customers to achieve these outcomes. This will include reference examples, and case studies of how and where to get started.
Prior to 2011, maintenance related data was captured manually (i.e. paper based) across 45 different power plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2013, Saudi Electricity Company implemented SAP Plant Maintenance was implemented to automate all plant maintenance activities. In 2016, Work Clearance Management (WCM) was integrated with PM to ensure a safe work environment for all staff. Saleh will cover the key benefits of this successful integration:
• unified and efficient maintenance planning and execution process
• OPEX and CAPEX cost control
• effective reporting and asset management
• improved SAP awareness and utilization
• the opportunity to develop new modules and mobility solutions.
Learn from the City of Cape Town's implementation of custom proactive and reactive maintenance mobile applications for tradesmen and supervisors. From concept to embedding the solution, the presentation will cover critical success factors covering the entire lifecycle of a typical mobility project.
From your readiness assessment, design considerations, practical change management advice, analysis and display of information, decision making and mistakes to avoid. Arend will share his views on how to harness the full potential that mobility can bring to your organisation.
Are you getting the most out of your SAP PM data? How much time are you spending on collecting data and related governance vs using the data?
This is a story of the journey from data to knowledge. Arend will focus on practical tips, tricks and pitfalls that can transform your standard SAP PM data into knowledge. You will learn the best ways to tailor your dashboards to different target audiences. And how enabling data driven decision making can change and enhance the behaviour of your asset care staff on the ground.
Coca-Cola Amatil utilise over 500 trucks, ships or trains to move its products around Australia. The geography of Australia is similar in size to that of the USA, however the population is only a small fraction of the US. Despite this, there is a need to deliver to 99.5% of post codes every two weeks to service their customers.
The need is simple – be able to select the most suitable equipment, optimise the load plan; reduce the need for manual intervention in planning and invoice reconciliation; and do this to obtain the lowest possible cost to deliver their products to the customer.
Keith's insights cover how Coca-Cola's SAP EWM & TM solution increased customer service, standardization of processes, reduced inventory and labour costs and much more!
Repairables are a complex process that can be difficult to manage. Prior to the AGL PT3 project, each site had different systems and methods of managing repairables. With the implementation of S/4HANA there is now a company wide solution for the management of repairables.
AGL have harnessed the power of Fiori to develop a Rotable and Repairable Cockpit which is a one-stop app for all our repairables specialists. This session will show how AGL used Fiori to enable multiple key transactions and apps in a single cockpit. Key questions addressed by the app include:
• How do I know what materials are going to be returned for repair?
• How many materials are currently defective?
• Which vendors have materials awaiting repair?
• What repairs are currently awaiting a final repair price?
Bridging the gaps in communication from the creation of a strategic asset management plan through to technically completing the work requires an organisation to firstly define the strategy and then to engage stakeholders from the top down to understand the "why". With an orientation towards life cycle delivery, Scott shares how Hydro Tasmania are reigniting the maintenance delivery process by turning the long-term plan into an actionable daily schedule and set of tasks, enabling rolling work packages, checkpoints and approvals.
While managing the change of instructions and identifying critical spares, they are working out what they need, what they have and what they don't. They are also working to get the best out of SAP as they build BoMs, drive MRS and continue to improve mobility. This ensures the right info in the right fields as they prepare to move to S/4Hana.
• Overview of HT's strategic asset management plan
• HTs planning process
• Explore how HT are improving our instructions
• See how HT are building their SAP system to get the best from available functionality
In a multi-operation organisation with a diverse asset base, maintenance budgeting and asset lifecycle management are complex, dependant on numerous role players, extremely resource and time intensive, and often lack credibility because of the absence of supporting detail.
How does an organisation employ an effective mix of people, processes and technology to not only produce accurate maintenance budgets and forecasts, but also harness the value from effective asset lifecycle management?
Experience how this mining organisation embarked on a journey to address this challenge, as they share with you the roadmap and progress made, the lessons learnt along the way and the critical success factors identified during the process.
It has been only a year since SAP announced Intelligent Asset Management, but as a cloud-based portfolio, an incredible amount has been accomplished in that short time. This session will help you understand the motivation behind this portfolio, and how SAP has evolved ERP Plant Maintenance and S/4HANA Asset Management into a single integrated asset management suite to support SAP's strategy and vision for the future of Asset Management.
At CBH, one of the biggest maintenance challenges to overcome is the vast geographical landscape in which receival and storage sites reside. The tradespeople at CBH maintain 195 sites extending all the way from Geraldton to Esperance in Western Australia. Some teams can spend over 3 hours a week simply travelling to gain online access to their work management database rather than doing what they are passionate about – maintaining the assets and not entering data into SAP!
In a nutshell, time is an extremely valuable and precious resource, and CBH have room for improvement. In late 2018, CBH began their venture to empower their maintenance teams with streamlined work processes and efficient data entry solutions. This would improve overall field service performance and productivity while providing the broader business more accurate asset condition reports and clearer visibility of what really happens in the field.
If geography wasn't enough, another arguably more important challenge was to engage the tradespeople across the business to get onboard with one of the most unsettling phenomena - change. Arti will guide you through the CBH journey – the trials, tribulations and rewards harvested from an offline-mobile solution for SAP EAM.
Within the Intelligent Asset Management portfolio, mobility is a key enabler to bring asset information, strategy, work execution, and predictive capabilities to the hands of field workers. When combined with a flexible and integrated scheduling platform, organisations can deliver improved work planning and execution capabilities. Learn more about SAP's new capabilities in these areas, and the roadmap for the future.
All over the world we are hearing about the Internet of Things, Connected Societies where humans are connected to and monitored by machines. Machines are connected to machines for monitoring, analysis and to generate data. BUT what happens when machines are controlling machines, informing them how to act and what to do based on the data they generate or receive from other machines? What if a machine is interfered with and sends malicious instructions to another machine causing damage, injury or our greatest fear - ending someone's life?
How will we identify who should be liable for this catastrophic impact to our businesses or the life we live? It's a question that governments all over the world are asking themselves and the main blocker in the race to leverage new technologies to further improve our lives. Put differently, how do we create digital DNA? How do we handle Identity Beyond the Humans?
This session is all about YOU – as a leader of an Asset Management or Supply Chain team, and of yourself. It's an opportunity to pause, reflect and spend time thinking about where you are in your procurement career (goals, aspirations and intent) and about your 'value proposition' for the future.
Globalisation has changed business as we know it. The world is smaller, and technology and connectivity has given us the sense that sourcing anything from anywhere is imminently possible. Despite this, maintenance, supply chain and procurement teams are often viewed as blockers to progress, slowing down customers in the name of process and compliance.
Maintenance, Supply Chain and Procurement must keep evolving, and so do you! The essence of this session is to ensure that YOU are working on yourself as a leader to ensure you deliver the best of you.
Chris is a highly regarded brand and PR expert. He's the former Chairman of the region's largest PR group, and the former COO of STW (now WPP), Australia's largest marketing and communications company. He's passionate about helping leaders and businesses accelerate growth. And not just growth in profits, but in courage, momentum, capability, reputation and in stature.
Assembling the right resources at the right location is critical to ensure asset maintenance is undertaken efficiently. It is an issue that organisations tasked with running complex and geographically diverse asset infrastructures face daily. With thousands of critical assets to maintain and strict performance benchmarks to uphold, the impact of poorly coordinated maintenance resources can be significant – both in terms of costs and damage to reputation. SAP Multi Resource Scheduling (MRS) is a resource management solution for services, plant maintenance and project businesses that increases resource utilisation and transparency across maintenance units. It optimises resource assignments (by travel times, priority, qualifications, etc) and enables organisations to manage resource requests more efficiently, leading to increased customer satisfaction.
Attend this session to find out how DXC Oxygen undertook a rapid implementation of SAP MRS at Jemena, allowing the energy asset operator to improve project and maintenance resource coordination. Learn how DXC Oxygen used its utility sector accelerators and Agile methodologies to provide clarity and certainty of delivery requirements – ensuring Jemena matches best-qualified staff to every work order for timely, efficient and effective asset maintenance.
Two years ago, SAP announced its intention to provide a solution to allow asset managers to manage asset strategy and performance in a solution that is natively integrated to the core SAP ERP platform. With quarterly cloud releases the capabilities of this solution are continually expanding, and now deliver Risk and Criticality, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Risk Based Inspection. This session will provide an overview of the current capabilities and the future roadmap for this solution, directly from the owners themselves.
Oz Minerals were faced with the challenge of having limited engineering and maintenance information on hand from the outset to support the commissioning and ongoing asset management of a new mine site. Managing major assets such as surface processing and underground fixed infrastructure requires critical information, access to decision enabling data and documentation.
Information needs to be in real time so there is limited disruption to maintenance activity with the objective of increasing plant production. A corporate objective was to have a paperless site which meant searching for the best of breed systems, solutions and devices. They wanted to provide an AIN style solution to support their reliability and engineering teams. Additionally, they were having difficulties acquiring quality and timely quantity of engineering documentation via the construction project.
Six core solutions were identified in order to achieve 95% data completeness, namely; SAP S/4 HANA, Prometheus, Datum360, 3D Modelling, EDMS and Zebra L10 devices. Bringing these solutions together provided a complete solution for equipment identification, workorder management, maintenance scheduling and complete view of their assets.
Adrian will present on how they identified needs, found a solution that worked and the 6 components to ensure the solution is sustainable to business needs. He will also demo the mobility solution using an RFID, the work order process, integration into SAP and the user experience our technicians receive.
Asset management no longer works out with the recipes of the past. Companies today must ensure information transparency and can combine information from both business and operational systems to create decisive knowledge. By transforming core applications with real-time analytics and connecting to shop-floor systems, people in charge of asset management can establish line of sight between corporate objectives and the actual performance of the asset.
SAP, these days, is providing a lot of innovation, both with SAP S/4HANA as the Digital Core and with SAP Leonardo based solutions in the cloud. Customers are facing the challenge of guiding their business to that new level of IT support. The presentation provides an overview of typical customer situations and courses of action how to embrace innovation. Leveraging SAP's Intelligent Asset Management portfolio, companies can use prediction and simulation to influence the business processes around strategy creation, planning, and execution. While asset-intensive businesses will not always be able to consolidate all asset-related information in one system, there is a need to create and continuously update the digital twin of the asset system in order to sustain performance levels at desired cost and risk.
The session will focus on the journey from a more traditional approach to Intelligent Asset Management. Focus will be on the implementation perspective, talking about the specific challenges when dealing with big data, statistical failure models, machine learning, and so on.
In recent years, Lion have lost revenue and market share due to disruptive digital models. In addition, they were missing out on opportunities due to being slow to move from idea to action. To thrive in a digitally disrupted world, Lion needed to change so that their customers remained at the heart of everything they were doing.
The solution was Next Generation - Process and Performance - a company-wide program which has re-envisioned Lion's future. This is under-pinned by SAP S/4 HANA and SAP's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution and is a transformational cornerstone of this change.
Through having permission to trial and error to blue-printing, to detailed design and in partnership with emerging technology in SAP, Lion piloted in NZ in August 2018 with a focus on the mature IBP modules, profitability and mix, and change. After a period of stabilisation, the metrics and business adoption of new processes are heading the right way.
Using SAP IBP Lion now have insights through a unified approach to data and analytics enabling them to be big but act small...something that is required in this disruptive environment. They are not done yet, and adoption of change remains the biggest challenge. With the Australian deployment just around the corner, pushing the boundaries, improving the people experience and implementing new capabilities is well underway.
Analysis by The Portland Group (2014) has cited the mining industry as "lagging" leading practice in the Supply Chain function with the recognition that "whilst there are notable pockets of good practice, the resources, construction and infrastructure sectors lag leading practice and may benefit from importing from other industries".
The supply issues experienced by Portland Group's clients in the resources sector could hamper their ability to overcome other challenges that the industry is facing, such as increasing operating costs and competition for material. Furthermore, it is Roy Hill's view that the underlying cause of these issues are the result of one factor - "Lack of 'supply chain' as a discipline".
In asset intensive industries such as mining, spare parts inventories are often managed by focusing on stocking strategies where levels are optimised, based on either deterministic or stochastic demand enabled by Material Requirements Planning (MRP) applications. This may incorporate practices that link asset condition monitoring to inventory level decisions, but this is often only on the replenishment policy level. These practices are predominantly at an execution time horizon and enabled by systems of record (e.g. procure to pay).
In addition to the Portland Group's findings, further research on maintenance tool time indicates that around 50 per cent of productive maintenance hours are lost due to logistics issues. This suggests that the implementation of integrated planning principles and supporting technology has the potential to bring substantial benefits to asset intensive industries.
Following detailed design workshops and carrying out a successful SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) pilot across their mobile assets, Roy Hill can now share their demand forecast with their major vendors, key metrics of working capital, material availability, material optimisation and asset availability are all heading in the right direction. The implementation of IBP is a world first in the mining industry and represents a unique use-case of the technology. It's about to be rolled out across all Roy Hill assets, enabling meaningful collaboration with our vendors.
The challenge presented to A&L Windows: Re-imagine deliveries across two ERP systems in two states. It needs to operate with offline capability for times when there is no internet service and be responsive across multiple platforms.
The solution took a user-centred approach, beginning by holding three workshops with branch SME's to understand their delivery and service processes. This helped to identify their pain points and needs for the mobility app via the creation of user personas and journey maps.
Lessons learned were a smarter way to handle offline functionality and capabilities, developing SAP transport and shipping functionality knowledge, using teamwork to think through ideas and concepts and React opens a gateway for new design ideas on an SAP platform.
Since its launch in March 2019, all A&L Service Technicians and Transport Drivers are now using this solution, totalling over 70. In terms of savings, it is estimated that the solution will deliver over $100K to the business, with time savings of around 10% within the Service / Transport Offices and out in the field.
In this presentation, Dominic will take you through the approach taken, the pitfalls faced, and the successes gained to ensure our delivery process is smooth as glass.
PanAust operates in a landlocked country with a complicated Supply Chain in which there was little to no visibility of goods traceability.
The supply chain systems in place comprised of multiple spreadsheets, emails and phone calls as the sole basis of control and communication. 3PL system capabilities were limited to non-existent in some cases.
As a result, cross-departmental trust in the supply chain was at a low while responsibilities and accountabilities were difficult to establish. The Supply & Logistics Department challenged us to digitise manual processes, replace MS Excel, remove double handling and provide End-to-End visibility of the Supply Chain to all parties involved. This was accomplished utilising Fiori as the primary front-end tool, F5 as the gateway for external providers and interactive ALV as a tool for "heavy" users as well as for reporting.
Achievements included:
• Reduction of 3000 + email enquiries per week
• Estimated 560 hours man hours a week saved previously spent on manual or inefficient activities across the Supply Chain.
• Takeover of a 3PL facility by our internal Logistics team utilising this solution resulting in an anticipated USD250K per annum operational savings.
Getting the best out of technical teams can be a challenge and is often more art than science. Successfully managing technical people is not dependent on the leader having a great amount of technical knowledge themselves, more so using approaches that are tailored to getting the most from your "techies". Andrew will share his 5 tips to success and explain why an opposable thumb is mandatory.
2015, SA Power Networks Field Crews were performing asset inspections using paper and pen, with little information at their fingertips. They knew they had a real business problem which needed to be solved, and had an under-utilised application, SAP Work Manager, that could solve it.
But they also knew they had little experience (business or technical) with developing online tools and their traditional approach of waterfall project management would not allow for the experimentation, rapid prototyping, and the fast feedback required to solve this problem.
What grew from this was their first ever agile project, using a small cross-functional team without the constraints of requirements or milestones to deliver a truly great product to the business. From this first agile project, more followed. Eventually, their entire Assets & works portfolio would be delivered using the agile methodology, which in turn acted as a catalyst for further change, challenging the way they funded and prioritised work, formed teams, and worked together to deliver business outcomes.
How much time do your teams waste looking for, or waiting for spare parts? In some cases, more than a quarter of our maintenance teams' day was wasted on managing the spare parts required to do their scheduled work. This is unacceptable, frustrating for everyone, and extremely costly to the business. So they decided to do something about it. The answer was our Picked, Packed and Delivery on the Requested day – or PPDR.
The PPDR project addresses the entire inbound indirect supply chain to ensure that what has been requested by the maintenance team is PPDR'd to the designated unloading. This seemingly simple concept is not nearly as easy as it sounds but the spoils of success have been surprising!
This has enabled the creation of well organised work place stores and the reduction/elimination of squirrel stores across our sites. These returns have already paid for the project. Here are some of the identified benefits that will be explained and discussed:
• Increased material visibility & availability
• More effective maintenance & reliability teams
• Elimination/reduction of squirrel stores (big credits to the balance sheet)
• Less unplanned work by everyone (stores staff, maintenance, reliability, site services, etc)
• Less hot shots
• Shifting of work from high cost resources to low cost resources
• Proactive environment
• Improved master data for everyone
In the past 12 months Defence, supported by Linfox, has conducted five SAP WMS rollouts over four states. The rapid delivery of SAP WMS has been achieved on time and budget, enhancing Defence's ability to deliver wholesale warehouse services.
Their success is based on a one team approach between Defence and Linfox in ensuring a common understanding of essential system, business and change management requirements while balancing innovation risk against schedule. This approach allowed the adoption of a sprint methodology to deliver each SAP WMS between 12 and 14 weeks including one concurrent SAP WMS delivery in Western Australia.
In this Deep Dive we will look at how AGL streamlined their Warehouses process across 4 sites in order to ensure that common processes and tools are being used. Using Fiori apps, to enable a simple process execution of the most common functions coupled with mobile devices, has made the Warehouse processes far more efficient.
Explore in some depth the apps AGL have created that deal with goods issued; goods receipts; stock transfers; stocktaking and MRP shortages. If you are looking to implement Fiori and S/4 HANA, this deep dive will give you a great insight as to what can be achieved.
AusNet Services implemented SAP in May 2015 as the company's principle ERP system. SAP is used for purchase requisition creation, Purchase Orders, and Purchase Order receiving. This results in many employees having to complete the receipt confirmations for their own purchase orders. Unfortunately, the users find the SAP receiving transactions far too complex to use (especially infrequent users)
In response to this pain they launched a front end built with Fiori as their receiving solution to remove the requirement for business procurement users to learn complex core SAP transactions to receipt their Purchase Orders. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive; the solution is simple and straight forward to use.
• SAP Fiori Design Principles – keep it simple, intuitive and integrated
• Project Design, Build and Deployment Method
• Build a Fiori App project team
As businesses become more digitally focused, we are interacting more, but with far less depth. Hundreds of emails, chats, social media posts and shortened meetings are resulting in more noise but less engagement and understanding. Businesses need to build processes, systems and tools to teach empathy as a business capability to drive performance.
With simple models, engaging activities and refreshing simplicity, Daniel will unpack the basics of neuroscience and empathy to help your people build the understanding to drive real outcomes.
• Tech is complicated, people are complex
• Understanding to drive trust and commitment
• The deep stories behind data
• Hacking the brain to unlock curiosity
• The process of empathy – the step-by-step guide
The path of progress is rarely smooth or linear. In the post SAP implementation 15 years ago, Electranet lacked the required levels of granularity to effectively understand and manage risk, planning & scheduling, budgeting, hazards and investigations.
Together with service provider, Enerven, they joined forces to work through these challenges on a path of development and continuous improvement which transformed the traditional relationship of customer-service provider to a partnership, dedicated to managing risks and achieving optimum asset lifecycle outcomes. The questions that needed answering were what does it take to shift your organisations thinking and culture from reactive maintenance to an asset management mindset; and how do you understand the context in which maintenance is being carried out, recognise risks and focus maintenance at the right time on the right asset?
• Asset Management is as much about people as it is Assets
• Bridge the gap with an Asset Management role within the service provider
• Change from recording defects to asset condition
• Implement a standardised risk assessment framework for classifying asset condition
• Improve SAP notification & work order data with custom user interfaces
• User experience is key to success or failure
• Improve planning by getting all scheduling data into SAP instead of spreadsheets
• Capture and review data at the asset is key
• Use work centres and partners to manage responsibility for all notifications and work orders
The path of progress is rarely smooth or linear. In the post SAP implementation 15 years ago, Electranet lacked the required levels of granularity to effectively understand and manage risk, planning & scheduling, budgeting, hazards and investigations.
Together with service provider, Enerven, they joined forces to work through these challenges on a path of development and continuous improvement which transformed the traditional relationship of customer-service provider to a partnership, dedicated to managing risks and achieving optimum asset lifecycle outcomes. The questions that needed answering were what does it take to shift your organisations thinking and culture from reactive maintenance to an asset management mindset; and how do you understand the context in which maintenance is being carried out, recognise risks and focus maintenance at the right time on the right asset?
• Asset Management is as much about people as it is Assets
• Bridge the gap with an Asset Management role within the service provider
• Change from recording defects to asset condition
• Implement a standardised risk assessment framework for classifying asset condition
• Improve SAP notification & work order data with custom user interfaces
• User experience is key to success or failure
• Improve planning by getting all scheduling data into SAP instead of spreadsheets
• Capture and review data at the asset is key
• Use work centres and partners to manage responsibility for all notifications and work orders
With global supply chain dynamics changing rapidly, this session provides a global perspective on how companies adapt and improve their supply chain processes leveraging the latest technology for order promising, warehousing, transportation, and for operating logistics partner networks.
Within this context, Till will highlight how SAP's overall solution strategy (including both the SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain and the SAP Logistics cloud portfolio) is assisting customers to achieve these outcomes. This will include reference examples, and case studies of how and where to get started.
Since its introduction in 2012, SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) has gone from strength to strength, providing an integrated platform for Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning, Inventory Optimisation, Response & Supply Planning, as well as a Supply Chain Control Tower. This year, SAP has extended IBP to support Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) and is working with asset-intensive customers to add integration to SAP Intelligent Asset Management to create the Intelligent Supply Chain for Assets.
Assembling the right resources at the right location is critical to ensure asset maintenance is undertaken efficiently. It is an issue that organisations tasked with running complex and geographically diverse asset infrastructures face daily. With thousands of critical assets to maintain and strict performance benchmarks to uphold, the impact of poorly coordinated maintenance resources can be significant – both in terms of costs and damage to reputation. SAP Multi Resource Scheduling (MRS) is a resource management solution for services, plant maintenance and project businesses that increases resource utilisation and transparency across maintenance units. It optimises resource assignments (by travel times, priority, qualifications, etc) and enables organisations to manage resource requests more efficiently, leading to increased customer satisfaction.
Attend this session to find out how DXC Oxygen undertook a rapid implementation of SAP MRS at Jemena, allowing the energy asset operator to improve project and maintenance resource coordination. Learn how DXC Oxygen used its utility sector accelerators and Agile methodologies to provide clarity and certainty of delivery requirements – ensuring Jemena matches best-qualified staff to every work order for timely, efficient and effective asset maintenance.
S/4HANA remains the digital core of the Intelligent Enterprise, and with the S/4HANA 1909 release, SAP provides several additional capabilities to support Supply Chain Execution. From online order confirmation, live MRP, smart purchasing recommendation, inventory minimisation and warehouse management, transportation, and in-transit tracking – all within a single integrated Supply Chain Execution platform. Whether your focus is consumer or asset-intensive industries, don't miss this session to understand the value of S/4HANA to your organisation.
Plant maintenance planning and execution is challenged by the lack of trust in inventory and purchasing's ability to provide supply services that effectively meet maintenance's requirement to schedule future work. This session addresses the typical behaviours that encourage unproductive silos, as well as techniques, functionality, and routines that are guaranteed to improve maintenance services to operations.
This session will benefit all maintenance organisations looking to effectively be more active in future scheduled maintenance activities.
With some effort up front, you can significantly increase equipment uptime and the utility of your facilities with preventive maintenance (PM) plans. After you determine which assets and locations are suitable for preventive maintenance, the next step is to create a checklist for all your PMs. Ideally, you would have created PDFs, Excel files or PRTs of your paper-based checklists and work procedures, which are printed out as part of your work packages.
Manual inspection and preventive maintenance processes for field-intensive organizations can have significant productivity and profitability results. RACE™ Dynamic Forms is a big step forward in providing your technicians with the ease and configurability of being able to design native, mobile inspection forms on the fly. More importantly, these forms can be integrated into your work packages digitally, eliminating the need to have paper-based checklists or documents.
Within a day or less, companies can convert their paper or spreadsheet forms to a true enterprise grade digital form solution integrated with SAP EAM. Sri will demo the RACE™ Dynamic Forms from Innovapptive and show you how they work seamlessly with your SAP Work Orders to streamline and automate data capture in the field.
Data is collected from many different sources at various times throughout the asset lifecycle. As we move towards intelligent maintenance systems and a predictive model, accurate master data continues to be the fundamental building block. Reporting and decision making now relies more than ever on trusted quality data. Integrating this data via a framework of standards and governance so it becomes meaningful information is the opportunity challenging many businesses. Deciding who in the organisation owns the collection and the governance processes that can avoid costly duplication, unreliable reporting, and general confusion is often unclear. A deep data culture embedded into your business together with ongoing data health monitoring is crucial. By structuring data input into the business process of supplying materials or services, work execution or implementing contracts, accurate and timely data can be incorporated seamlessly into your systems and governed according to your requirements and standards.
Come listen to Frank Gysberts share his perspective on how Data Collection and Governance done well and with the right tools, can change the game. Frank is an SAP EAM Certified maintenance professional who has worked in the SAP arena for over 25 years. He has worked in the FMCG, Mining (Global EAM Architect BHP) Utilities, Chemicals, Defence and Services Industries winning SAP innovation awards along the way. Many of the implementations and audits he has been involved with have suffered ongoing master data maintenance issues hence his interest in the area.
SAP ERP (S/4 or ECC) standalone provides the digital core capability to streamline your internal enterprise processes. However, many organisations are still struggling with digitalising & automating their supplier interactions. Join this session to learn about SAP S/4 Supplier Portal to understand how you can move away from manual, email & paper-based processes with your suppliers. S/4 Supplier Portal provides seamless integration to extend ERP purchasing process digitally to your suppliers via the world's largest Supplier Network.
SAP ERP (S/4 or ECC) standalone provides the digital core capability to streamline your internal enterprise processes. However, many organisations are still struggling with digitalising & automating their supplier interactions. Join this session to learn about SAP S/4 Supplier Portal to understand how you can move away from manual, email & paper-based processes with your suppliers. S/4 Supplier Portal provides seamless integration to extend ERP purchasing process digitally to your suppliers via the world's largest Supplier Network.
The Woodside Campaign Materials Team needs to be able to generate materials availability status updates quickly, and then prioritise and direct effort where it is most needed. To do this well, Woodside needed an end to end consolidated view that met the requirements of the different functions but also gave an enterprise wide understanding of how campaign preparation was progressing. The solution was:
• develop some smart SAP cross module Materials status reporting
• augment with automated data manipulation in Excel to quickly highlight areas of concern and focus
• structured stakeholder meetings that have everyone singing from the same sheet
• KPIs and metrics to keep everyone honest and help drive improvement
• hand it over to the Robotics Process Automation team to remove much of the human intervention making the process even more efficient
This presentation will cover why Woodside took the approach. I.e. why they built some in Excel first and not straight to a digital. Terry will share lessons learnt and some things that still cause Woodside grief and are yet to be resolved.


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New Delhi, India, August 27, 2012—IFC,
a member of the World Bank Group, is working with India's eastern state
of Jharkhand to expand medical infrastructure through a public-private
partnership model, expanding access to improved healthcare services for
four million people.
IFC will assist the state government
in selecting a private partner through a competitive and transparent process.
This partner will equip, staff, and expand the government-owned, 40-bed
Sadar Hospital into a 500-bed facility to provide secondary and tertiary
care. IFC will similarly assist the state's district hospitals and medical
colleges to identify private operators who can provide advanced radiological
imaging and pathological testing services. Both these projects are expected
to raise about $75 million in private sector investments.
"With IFC's experience in privatization
and restructuring, the state aims to leverage private sector funds and
capability to improve public healthcare delivery," said Hemlal Murmu,
Minister of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare for Jharkhand.
The projects will include training of
government staff to manage these programs and conduct similar transactions
in future. IFC will also explore the viability of setting up an associated
medical college with private participation.
Thomas Davenport, IFC's Director for
South Asia, said, "These projects will help address the shortage of quality
healthcare services and medical professionals in the state, and expand
access to medical care among patients."
IFC has successfully implemented a similar
project in four government hospitals of Andhra Pradesh by assisting the
state in engaging a private sector company that installs and manages advanced
diagnostics in public hospitals, and that trains students in attached medical
About IFC
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group,
is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the
private sector. We help developing countries achieve sustainable growth
by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial
markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments.
In FY12, our investments reached an all-time high of more than $20 billion,
leveraging the power of the private sector to create jobs, spark innovation,
and tackle the world's most pressing development challenges. For more
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Keep Floyding, A38 Budapest, 29 March
- 19 Mar 2019 8:59 AM
Very popular and less known songs, also complete albums are on their repertoire that differs on each gig, to bring you the ultimate Pink Floyd experience.
For the fourth time, the band will return to the A38 ship, with the classic Keep Floyding Experience program. This night- from the very first to the last album - every Pink Floyd era will be visited. Come and hear them live, let them surprise you.
Tickets: HUF 2,700 / 3,200
Date and time: 29 March, 7:30 pm
1117 Budapest, Petőfi híd


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Getting New Jersey Right – The Murphy Economic Agenda
"The solutions to nearly all of our state's problems are rooted in a stronger economy that works from the middle class out. When we get ...Read more
Getting Tough on Gun Violence
The gun violence epidemic is nothing short of a public health crisis. And yet, Governor Christie continues to stand in the way of sensible reforms.Read more
Making the Economy Work for All of Us
Under Governor Christie, while the rest of the nation moved forward, New Jersey fell to the bottom of every economic indicator.Read more
Ending the Era of High-Stakes Testing
Phil Murphy is committed to ending New Jersey's reliance on PARCC tests and eliminating standardized testing as a requirement for graduation.Read more
Connecting New Jerseyans to Good Jobs
Phil is committed to building a stronger and fairer economy for every New Jersey family. First and foremost, he will focus on helping all New ...Read more
NJ Transit
"Governor Christie's mismanagement of NJTransit has wrecked what was once a national leading transit agency. The quality of service has declined even as fares keep ...Read more
Keeping Our Promises and Putting Our State's Finances Back On Track:
New Jersey has the worst funded pension system in the country, which is a result of this governor and other Trenton insiders.Read more
Creating a New Retirement Plan for Employees of Small Businesses
More than half of private-sector employees in NJ work for employers who do not offer retirement plans.Read more
Supporting Women's Rights
It is unacceptable that gender inequality continues to exist in 2017.Read more
Lowering the Cost of a College Education
Phil understands that we don't get our economy right without getting higher education right.Read more
Making Home Ownership More Affordable and Accessible
Phil is committed to helping make sure that anyone who works hard and plays by the rules has a chance to build a middle-class life.Read more
Building a Green Economy and Protecting Our Environment
Phil understands that we need to generate clean energy here in New Jersey and not import polluting electricity from neighboring states while exporting jobs.Read more
Healthcare That Works for All of Us
For too long we have let special interests like for-profit hospitals outweigh the interests of 9 million residents.Read more
Battling Addiction
As governor, Phil will remove the the stigma that surrounds addiction and tackle our opioid epidemic.Read more
Getting Education Right
Phil believes that our public schools are a critical part of what makes this state great.Read more
Ending the Mismanagement and Building a World Class Transportation Infrastructure
We cannot grow our economy without world-class infrastructure, but the same old politicians in Trenton have spent decades letting our roads, bridges, railways, and ports crumble.Read more
Honoring Veterans
New Jersey is home to more than 435,000 proud veterans, yet many live with wounds we cannot see.Read more
Ensuring LGBTQ Equality
In the era of Donald Trump, Phil will not give an inch on the equal treatment of our LGBTQ neighbors.Read more
Tearing Down Barriers to Voting
Phil believes that we are a better, stronger, more representative democracy when more people participate.Read more
Protecting Immigrant Rights, Protecting New Jersey Values
Phil will protect the Dreamers and oppose any efforts to use state and local police to assist in mass deportations.Read more
Putting the Justice in Criminal Justice
"We must work to bridge the gap between police and the communities they serve. I will be an inclusive governor that brings all parties together ...Read more
Ending Wall Street's Influence on State Street
In New Jersey, the wealthiest 1% continue to pay a far lower share of their income in state and local taxes than the lowest-income residents.Read more
Making New Jersey More Affordable
"From property taxes to the cost of college to our transit fares and tolls, too many New Jerseyans no longer feel like they are getting ...Read more
A Public Bank – Investing in New Jersey Not Wall Street
Phil has proposed that New Jersey become the second state in the nation to start a public bank.Read more
A Strong Commitment to People with Disabilities
Phil is determined to make New Jersey the most inclusive and most accessible place to live, work and raise a family for people with disabilities.Read more
Reclaiming the Innovation Economy and Building a Middle Class for the 21st Century
Before there was Silicon Valley, there was New Jersey. From Pharma to bio and life sciences to telecoms, New Jersey was once flush with companies ...Read more
Building a Clean Energy Economy
"To get New Jersey right, we must both grow our economy and make it fair. Investing in clean energy does both. We can rebuild our ...Read more
Women's Economic Agenda
New Jersey will not move forward, nor will we grow our middle class as long as half our workforce is unfairly paid less, has less ...Read more
Supporting – Not Demonizing – Working People
"The union door is a primary door through which so many of us – and our parents and brothers and sisters – walked into the middle class. We will build a stronger, more inclusive New Jersey economy because of our support for organized labor, not the other way around."Read more


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In 2013, Core Covers provided Christmas presents and food to the Casa Hogar Santa Teresita Del Niño girls orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico, where its factory is located. The Christmas drive was such a success and so popular with its employees that the company decided to partner with the orphanage on an ongoing basis.
Twice a week two sewing trainers volunteer to go to the orphanage and teach the girls how to sew. It's optional for the girls, and typically 10 to 15 participate. The company provides the equipment and material, and the girls make backpacks, garments, bags and belts.
"The Core employees love to do this work; we have a couple senior sewing trainers (both women/mothers) who covet this assignment," says Jerry Greer, CEO at Core. "Everyone wins. Our employees see that we care about their community by this program, and the girls get tangible skills to aid them in life. The act of giving reinforces the values we aspire to live as a corporate family. We hope to expand the program over the region as we mature as a company."


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The CA Beef Ambassador Competition took place at the Emma Prusch Farm Park in San Jose, CA on April 26, 2014. There were fifteen Junior and eleven Senior Beef Ambassador contestants and they were all great!
Envelope please – The 2014 CCW Beef Ambassadors are (drum roll):
Senior Jillian Casacca – Humbolt County
Junior Shane Stubblefield – Kern County
Jillian and Shane will be going on to represent CCW at the National Beef Ambassador Contest in Denver, Colorado on September 26th – 27th. Jillian Casacca attends CSU-Chico, majoring in Ag Business and minoring in Animal Science. She owns a small herd of registered and commercial Angus cattle. Shane is a sophomore at Taft High School. He is active in FFA, an officer on the welding team and enjoys helping on the ranch.
Second place Senior was Nicole Cowley – Siskiyou Co. She is a senior at Yreka High School. Second place Junior was Danielle Mueller – Tehama Co. She is involved in FFA and beef cattle.
The California Beef Council presented each of the 26 State Beef Ambassador contestants, Junior and Senior, a $ 50 Visa gift card. Additionally, the contest winners received the following gift cards:
Jillian – $400
Nicole – $300,
Shane – $200
Danielle – $100
Here is the full list of our outstanding Beef Ambassador Contestants:
|John Murry
|Morgan Lyman
|Amador/El Dorado/Sacramento
|Alek Kater
|Taylor MacKay
|Jillian Casacca
|Shannon Carver
|Shane Stubblefield
|Ashley Taylor
|Sonia Del Toro
|Molly Clark
|San Luis Obispo
|Gillian Welcher
|San Luis Obispo
|Jessica Welcher
|San Luis Obispo
|Marissa Smith
|Jackie Penner
|Santa Clara
|Gabrielle Schord
|Santa Clara
|Wyatt Wolfe
|Santa Clara
|Allen Williams
|Adam Blalock
|Nicole Cowley
|Claire Olson
|Danielle Mueller
|Emyli Palmer
|Kegan Richards
The event competitions were exciting and very fun to watch. A big thank you goes to all our judges, mock consumers and questioners! They included:
|Mock Consumer
|Rich Silacci, Chairman California Beef Council and Cal Poly SOL
|Erin Rogers, Kern County
|Karen Sweet, Livermore Rancher
|Tammie McElroy, CCW President
|Sharon McCray, Emma Prusch Farm Park Foundation
|Issue Response
|Megan Alpers, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
|Malorie Bankhead, California Cattlemen's Association
|Jill Scofield, California Beef Council
|Sheila Barry, U.C. Cooperative Extension
Special thank yous go to Emma Morris, 2013 CA Beef Ambassador and member of the
2014 NBA Team and Katie Stroud, 2012 CA Beef Ambassador and member of the 2013 NBA Team. Emma gave a presentation to the contestant parents and event guests about her past year as a Beef Ambassador. Katie pitched in to help with registration and escorting the contestants to the consumer event.
Congratulations to Sarah DeForest, CCW Beef Ambassador Chairwoman for another successful competition. And finally a huge thank you to our hostesses from the Santa Clara Cattle Women. Jill Bright is their President. She and her member were simply fantastic.