The cement manufacturer Lafarge South Africa has successfully implemented the full MAXIMO EAM inventory control and purchasing functionality at its flagship cement factory in Lichtenburg.
Deployed in a true `best-of-breed` configuration, MAXIMO was also interfaced to the company`s financial system, enabling, as phase 2, the maintenance supply chain and logistics to be fully demand driven by planned maintenance.
Lafarge South Africa purchased the MAXIMO Work and Asset Maintenance Management System from the Pretoria based Enterprise Asset Management solutions provider MST.
Danie van Vuuren, MST Executive Account Manager: MAXIMO, says Lafarge South Africa is the first organisation in Africa to start its MAXIMO implementation with the inventory control, purchasing, asset catalogue and invoice matching functionalities. "This is proof of the versatility and flexibility of the MAXIMO system to adapt to client requirements rather than to dictate them." The maintenance functionalities of MAXIMO will be implemented in a second phase.
Van Vuuren says after an investigation to put an inventory and purchasing system in place, Lafarge South Africa concluded that MAXIMO met all its requirements. "It confirms that MAXIMO is not only a world leading work and asset maintenance management system, but is now also highly rated for its maintenance supply chain functionalities, reinforcing MAXIMO`s position as a true enterprise wide asset management system," he said.
Lafarge South Africa`s objectives with the implementation were:
To streamline processes, from material requirement to delivery
To improved PO control and expediting
The solving of the company`s Y2K problems
Lafarge South Africa is planning to roll out MAXIMO to all its cement and quarrying operations at Lichtenburg as well as to its major distribution centres in Richards Bay and Kaalfontein. An upgrade to complete the new GL account structure at the end of this year is underway.
MAXIMO, which is the de facto maintenance standard for Lafarge globally, is one of the work and asset maintenance management systems most widely used in the cement manufacturing industry worldwide.
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