Work with Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

Asset Management is a module for managing assets and maintenance jobs in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. Asset Management enables you to efficiently manage and carry out tasks related to managing and servicing many types of equipment in your company, for example, machines, production equipment, and vehicles. Asset Management supports solutions across numerous industries.

Functional locations in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides your organization the ability to define and track where your assets are located. The benefit of functional locations not only provides traceability, but improves the reporting relationship to work orders, condition and fault assessments, and production stop registrations.

Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management allows your organization to effectively manage your resources, through the identification of asset locations. You can schedule maintenance tasks related to those assets, track usage, and review reports associated with the assets and their locations.

Maintenance requests in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management are fundamental in keeping your valuable assets running efficiently, while managing downtime and protecting your overall productivity. This module defines maintenance requests, how to create maintenance requests, using asset loans, tracking inbound and outbound assets, and reporting.

Work orders are used to track and manage maintenance jobs scheduled on assets in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Schedules for maintenance workers, assets and other tools are created when work orders are scheduled in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

To effectively manage your assets in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, you can use controls and reports.

Machinery and equipment used in production and warehouses all require maintenance. It's like taking your car in for service. You take preventive measures and get the oil changed regularly, and you plan for the downtime of when you won't be able to use your vehicle until maintenance is complete. Your organization's success depends on planning maintenance, downtime, and the cost of maintaining your assets. This is where Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can help.

Capacity planning helps your organization estimate the capacity of your asset load. This is important because it helps you plan for maintenance, identify work orders assigned to your assets, whether scheduled or unscheduled. This module reviews how to calculate capacity loads for your assets as well as forecasting item consumption for your assets over a period of time.

Consumption registrations must be completed when the maintenance job is completed for a work order. The registration feeds the associated costs to the asset and consumption reports in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Protecting your organizational assets begins with maintaining detailed warranty records in Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. In this module, we will review the warranty agreement process, and establish warranties on assets and asset types.

Maintenance budgets provide a place for organizations to forecast expected costs for preventive maintenance on assets.