--- title: "Asset Management Archives" description: "Asset Management" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/asset-management/page/2/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/asset-management/page/2/.md last_converted: 2026-10-30T07:49:19.959Z --- # Tag: Asset Management ##### Outsourced Asset Care for Small & Medium Enterprises June 15, 2022 Proper and consistent maintenance can make or break businesses. The headline in a local newspaper, Business Day – dated 13/06/2022, reads “Poor performance and degradation of rail and port infrastructure have seen SA’s coal exports drop 20% from about 80 million tonnes in 2017 to about 64 million tonnes in 2021”. All around us we [...] ##### Tags Asset Care Plan Asset Care Service Business Process Cost and Risk Reduction Asset Management Maintenance management People Technology ##### Determining optimal staffing for maintenance departments October 12, 2021 By Philip Hanekom, Associate Consultant at Pragma Africa Any Asset Management (AM) system either fails or succeeds because of people. Competence, process discipline and capacity are key, and without these fundamentals, in place, any system is bound to be ineffective. This article will focus on capacity, but first, let’s take a quick look at the [...] ##### Tags Asset Replacement Value Load Balancing Maintenance Workload Planned Utilisation Plant operating model Resource Planning Tactical Maintenance Wrench Time Asset Management Maintenance ##### An insight into Maintenance Work Management July 12, 2021 Pragma Academy Subject Matter Expert Tim Beavon I have been working in the asset and maintenance management fields my entire professional life. It has always astounded me that organisations continually appear to feel frustrated at their organisation’s inability to get the maintenance planning office “right”. In this article, I will endeavour to convince you that, [...] ##### Tags Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Maintenance Supervisor Maintenance Work Management Planner Scheduler Asset Management Maintenance Maintenance management ##### Massmart Wins 2021 SAFMA Award for Technology April 22, 2021 Helgard Pienaar, Solutions Specialist Massmart’s shareholders and customers have good reason to celebrate yet another success with the facilities management team involved in achieving the 2021 SAFMA Award for Technology. The national retailer’s commitment to digitise their facility and asset management processes and workflow has reaped a 25% increase in workflow efficiency across their 400 [...] ##### Tags Asset Tagging Award Call Centre Colin Garton Cost Control Culture Customer-centric Massmart On Key Implementation On Key Insights Business Intelligence tool Operation Retail SAP Interface Savings South African Facilities Management Association Store Managers Asset Management EAMS Enterprise Asset Management Facilities Management Maintenance management On Key On Key EAMS Southern African Asset Management Association Technology ##### Memorable Training for Better Workplace Results March 29, 2021 The main focus of the Pragma Academy is to create courses and provide training that is memorable to our clients and value adding to their businesses. We work hard to ensure that learning is demonstrated through improved workplace activities and partner with our clients to measure this. Providing learning that is targeted and relevant results [...] ##### Tags Asset Management Roles Clients Courses Generic Learning Pathways Learning Pathway Measurable Skills Gaps Value Adding Workplace Activities Asset Management Blended learning Pragma Academy Reliability Engineer Training ##### Centralised Enterprise Asset Management Systems November 24, 2020 The case for having a reliability centred maintenance approach has been proven time and time again. Yet, it is one of the most significant physical asset management challenges facing large, diversified organisations today. By sticking to best practices and getting the foundations of asset management in place, RCL Foods has managed to overcome this challenge. [...] ##### Tags Distributors Foodcorp Manufacturers PAM Rainbow Chicken RCL Foods Reliability Maintenance Southern African TSB Sugar Vector Logistics Asset Management Enterprise Asset Management On Key Physical Asset Management Pragma Process ##### Digital Future Readiness in the South African Fuel Retail Sector South African Fuel Retail companies need to remain competitive and future-ready, be able to tackle current low economic growth, Political / Regulatory and social challenges and make use of new growth opportunities and optimise the scope for digitalisation. ##### Tags case study Culture Digital Environment Digitalisation Fuel Retail oil and gas Strategic Business Transformational Asset Management ecosystem Manufacturing Partnerships People SOuth Africa ##### How to Build an Asset Management Scorecard October 12, 2020 Darryl Summers: Partner Consultant, Pragma Measuring and managing performance in an organisation is vital in driving an organisation towards success. Management requires fact-based decision making which relies on authentic performance measures. In medium to large organisations, which tend to span multiple customer sectors and countries, consistent evaluation of performance is often a challenge experienced by [...] ##### Tags Acquisitions AM scorecard Asset Management Consultant Asset Management Performance Measures Change Management Countries Culture Darryl Summers Decision Making Evaluation of Performance Key Performance Indicator Large Organisation Medium Organisation Models Performance Measure Sectors Tracking Asset Management Asset Management Improvement Planning framework Enterprise asset management system Standardisation ##### Pragma | 30 Years in the making July 15, 2020 2020 might forever be known as the year in which Covid 19 struck, but life goes on despite this and many other challenges that businesses face. It is with this mindset, that we take a look back at an engineering firm that was born on the first of June 1990. “Politically South Africa was in [...] ##### Tags 30 Years AMIP Arnold Botha Asset Care Pack CMS Cost Digital Digital Transformation Empowering Supplier Industrial Engineering Information Technology IoT technology Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Mobile Oil and Gas Industry Performance Pragma Brazil Risk University of Stellenbosch Adriaan Scheeres Asset Care Asset Management Asset Management Improvement Planning framework Covid19 Enterprise Asset Management IIoT Industry 4.0 Martec Netherlands On Key Physical Asset Management Pragma Pragma Academy Reatile Group SOuth Africa ##### Asset Management Procurement Practices That Save February 14, 2020 Andre Jordaan: Partner Consultant, Pragma In a world where examples of inappropriate expenditure are widespread, it is easy to justify extensive procurement practices as a means of improving governance. However, it would be best if you deliberated whether such practices are meeting your intended objectives, and at what cost. In any company or organisation, procurement [...] ##### Tags Andre Jordaan Asset Management expenditure Proactive Maintenance procurement procurement practices Procurement rule Risk Management tax clearance certificate