October 15, 2009

The experts say the world is coming out of it's economic troubles. The current times therefore offer a unique opportunity to put in place best-in-class applications to allow companies to work smarter as growth resumes. But you'll still have to make the difficult case and justification for best-in-class applications. Building a coalition of allies in this cause may be the best course to achieving your goals of achieving best practices for your department.

Fortunately for you, Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager offers both functionality designed to facilitate best practices and compelling benefits across departments to enable coalition building:

• Metrology: Blue Mountain's next generation of calibration management software
• Maintenance: Robust maintenance management functionality balancing compliance and productivity requirements
• Quality: Confidence during a quality systems audit with unprecendented control over business processes to ensure compliance and ability to stay "in the loop" without feeling like it's imposing on work
• Engineering & Facilities: one single application for all asset management, collaboration and coordination across discplines, total cost of ownership for assets
• Operations & Production: better access of information, better use of scheduled downtime to increase throughput
• IT: single browser-based application reduces number of applications and simplifies software implementation and maintenance
• Management: Better decision making reduces overall costs and improves throughput
• Anyone else interested in assets and compliance: one location for information with automatic notifications sent to interested parties

In some cases you'll have to listen carefully to understand your potential ally's needs and then work with Blue Mountain to determine how that need can best be satisfied. But this exercise will not only produce stronger allies, but also provide the sort of cross-discipline understanding that would serve anyone well in their career.

They'll thank you later for bringing them on board.

Let us know how we can help you build your purchasing coalition.

Bryce Johannes
Director of Marketing
Blue Mountain Quality Resources, Inc.