The ERP.Repair module is designed for the organization of the operating process of a company providing repair and maintenance services. It is a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

Solutions of the CMMS category support the following functionalities: 
• The maintenance of the equipment database including the frequency and scope of repairs;
• Information about spare parts; 
• Information about maintenance personnel; 
• Drawing up spare part purchase orders and job orders in accordance with the database containing the standards for repairs; 
• Calendar planning of maintenance and repairs; 
• Aggregation and storage of cost data for further analysis; 
• Aggregation and storage of data about events (failures, emergencies) for further analysis; 
• Standard and extended maintenance and repair reports;
• And many others.

Even before a vessel has reached the dock or a piece of equipment has arrived to the repair shop, the documents necessary for workers to come to the site are registered in the system: the contract, the list of jobs, requirements for the job, the preliminary assessment of the company’s income and expenses in relation to this order. The characteristic feature of the module is the fast compilation of the price quotation and the data concerning a new order on the basis of a similar external order created earlier.

The order goes through certain stages of preliminary processing: the pricing of jobs for the order is performed, the employees’ salary is determined (specialists from the preproduction department who establish the employees’ salary and the composition of materials are involved in the order processing). The marginal revenue for each type of works is calculated on the basis of the planning inventory data entered into the system. As it is not only the employees of the factory that are involved in the performance of works but also third-party organizations, there is an option for timely entering of the information concerning the performance of works by contractors into the system.

Material requirements planning allows the needs for all materials and components to be calculated for putting an order into production, taking into account warehouse stocks as well as scheduled receipts and shipments. The above needs are based on sales orders, shop orders and job orders (repairs). The information is checked against nonredundant stocks, supply orders and shop orders to determine needs for materials and components. In addition, data concerning independent demand, for instance, forecast demand for spare parts, can be taken into account.  

The purpose of capacity requirements planning is to determine realistic timeframes for production target delivery using the available capacity. The planning of work centre load simplifies the process of identifying potential bottlenecks and allows the underutilization and overloading of production capacities and personnel to be evened out.

During the performance of repairs, the scope of the works to be completed may undergo major changes: adjustments are made in the course of the expert review of the vessel or piece of equipment for failure as well as assembly and disassembly of the equipment declared for repairs. In the course of repairs, the actual costs can change multi-fold compared to those established in the repair standards. Records of expert reviews for failure are executed by production engineers, and this operation is completed directly in the system.

The employees responsible for the monitoring of material issue check the figures estimated by production engineers against the actual figures of the consumption of materials. The system supports the recording of arbitrary sets of calculation items, the recording of resource price catalogues, the recording of various methods of calculation of overhead costs (on the basis of shares of other items, cost estimates or various allocation bases) and runs the necessary reporting, allowing the operational monitoring of the production process without having to wait for the completion of all the works and for the vessel to leave the dock.

The order manager analyses the obtained information (the economist in charge of the order is also involved in the analysis), monitors the progress of the order and identifies the reasons and sources of overspending. On the basis of the data concerning planned and actual costs, the manager can adjust the prices of certain jobs while being able to give sufficient rationale to the customer. The quality control department is involved in the process at the stage of the delivery of works, drawing up the work certificate of the completion of a certain work type in the system. 

The information about performed works is used by economists, accountants and managers of the order. At the same time, the employees of the contract administration receive information about the execution of contracts.