Facility managers need to understand the maintenance needs of these assets, determine their remaining useful life and create accurate capital replacement plans. The second largest expense after personnel, real estate and related facility costs can represent more than 20% of an organizations’ cost structure.
Despite the critical nature of these assets and advances in facility management technologies, a recent study revealed that most facility managers have not implemented an enterprise asset management program. Instead, many facility managers still rely on manual, paper-based or spreadsheet processes that are inherently inefficient, inflexible, error prone, and cumbersome.