Showing posts with label Inventory management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inventory management. Show all posts

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Why FacilitiesDesk

Need for an "Integrated" Facility Management Software to automate facility management:

Why do you need a Facility Management tool?

Optimizing facility management can save your organization a considerable percentage of its maintenance contract charge. Breakdown of resources can take a toll in your revenue through loss in productivity. Costly downtimes can be reduced if a proper facility management system is in place.

Types of Facility Management Software:

Computer-aided facility management (CAFM) software focuses primarily on space management issues: who owns the property, People of the workplace, where are the facilities located, how many facilities are present across the globe, how much does it cost to run the operation in each facility, and so forth. It also is used to manage moves and renovation projects that change how the spaces look and work. There is also usually a graphical component to CAFM so that users can connect CAD plans to facilities database information.

Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software focuses primarily on maintenance issues and problem resolution. Assets in a facility break down and somebody has to fix them. The primary vehicles for communicating problems and resolutions are the initial work request that is logged when something is wrong and the work order that is created to track the steps to fix the problem. In short maintenance management, work order tracking and preventive maintenance are the order of the day for a CMMS Application.

In CMMS software Preventive maintenance focuses on processes and activities designed to maintain assets before they break and to extend their life. CMMS may include tools to manage parts, equipment documentation, fleet maintenance, staff and subcontractor activities, and so forth.


Which type would suit you?


CAFM and CMMS sometimes overlap in the area of work orders. Most CAFM software uses work orders to manage staff and Facilities, employees and team’s relocations.

The work order provides a convenient and efficient tool to manage the details that go with these activities.In large organizations having facilities and operated across globe, different teams are generally responsible for facility and maintenance issues.

Each group may want software applications that meet their specific needs. In smaller organizations the same team may be responsible for both functions and prefer a tightly integrated solution that meets all their needs.

Why should you choose FacilitiesDesk?

FacilitiesDesk addresses the needs of both CAFM and CMMS seekers.

FacilitiesDesk Plus Editions

FacilitiesDesk Standard Edition is Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) tailored to help managers like you to take control of the complete maintenance management of your facilities across the globe from this single console.

    • Preventive or Scheduled Maintenance management
    • Breakdown maintenance request management
    • Tracking and monitoring the work orders

On the whole, FacilitiesDesk standard edition provides all that you need to have in full-fledged and productive Maintenance HelpDesk – a CMMS.

Facilities Management

FacilitiesDesk Enterprise Edition is a CAFM (Computer Aided Facilities Management) Software. And the good
news is that (mainly for the SMBs) FacilitiesDesk enterprise edition is available at an interestingly affordable price point compared to other CAFM vendors.

It includes all the features of the standard edition plus entire portfolio management with property, lease and space management and Move Management. If you are looking at a fully fledged Facility management tool enterprise edition is the best fit.

  • Property Management & Lease Management - Access information and manage the details of all nature with respect to your properties and their lease structures of all your facilities across the globe from a central console.
  • Space Management - Intuitively visualize and analyze the utility of the space available in all your facilities across different locations and manage to put the space to use more effectively. Space management with FacilitiesDesk is made efficient with the help of tools like graphs and AutoCAD integration.
  • Move Management - Good news with FacilitiesDesk is that no more Chaos while initiating a move, in other words relocation. The Move management feature in enterprise edition helps in the complete move cycle from planning till the completion of relocation.
  • Room Booking - With FacilitiesDesk room booking feature you will see effective room booking management with least chaos and eradicated double bookings. This takes care of the chores like pre-setting the meeting room and allows the meeting chair to concentrate on the cores of conducting a meeting.
Facility managers typically want a single application to manage both facilities and CMMS processes and FacilitiesDesk is tailored to fulfill both needs. Also FacilitiesDesk offers all that a CAFM offers interestingly at the price of CMMS.

Do not take my word for it…Try it…decide for yourself…

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Asset Management Work Flow

Felt a workflow of a process would be the best way to describe about the functionality, so such an attempt. Asset Management is an integral part of FacilitiesDesk. So , all you people using FacilitiesDesk must be aware of the complete workflow of the module.

Before adding an individual Asset into the inventory , you need to specify its parent hierarchy. Meaning, what Product Category, Product Type & Product it belongs to. Let's use the example of a Coffee Vending Machine.

Product Category ~ Vending Machines

Product Type ~ Coffee Vending Machine

Product ~ Fresh & Honest CVM

Asset Name ~ FHCVM 001



With FacilitiesDesk it makes you to manage huge set of assets with ease.

Other features associated with Asset Management are,

1. Annual Maintenance Contract for assets can be calculated and notified accordingly.

2. Vendor's of the Assets can be tracked. ~ Vendor Management

3. Customized reports can be generated.

4. Reports can be scheduled , Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly basis. (So you receive a copy of the report in the desired format(pdf/html/xls/csv) at the schedule date)

5. Work Requests for raised for an asset can be tracked.

6. Preventive Maintenance for Assets can be scheduled.

7. Meter Reading can be monitored.

8. Tracking inventory items and Ordering(Raising a Purchase Order from our Purchase Module) them if they go below Re-Order Level.

9. Tracking & maintaining assets based on its Location. (Eg. list of assets present in a particular Building/Floor/Room)

10. Extra Costs details for the assets can be tracked.

11. Customizing your own form fields with the help of additional fields we provide.

12. A complete history of the Asset can be maintained.

13. Asset Lease Details can be tracked , notified & maintained.

14. Asset can be assigned to a User/Department & can also be associated to other Assets & Components.

15. Maintain your own Knowledge Base for each and every Assets.

16. And lot more .To learn more you can always ask for a free online product demo or visit our online demo website.

And here is the work flow of Asset Management in FacilitiesDesk.