Costly to produce and administer, wasteful and often inadequate, paper work orders really should be obsolete.

So we’re pleased to report that ScottishPower’s maintenance and operations field staff will soon see all paper work orders replaced by a new work management system featuring the latest version of GeoField.

As part of ScottishPower’s investment in streamlining their corporate systems, GeoField’s highly effective map-based fieldwork suite is now fully integrated with SAP and ESRI.

‘Integrating the electronic work orders with our new SAP deployment will bring us multiple benefits,’ says Guy Jefferson, ScottishPower’s Network Operations Director.

As well as the elimination of paper, Guy anticipates ‘savings generated by removal of double keying both at work order creation and deprogramming will cut costs.’

‘But probably the most significant advance is that the system will allow us to allocate costs directly and accurately to the asset which is being repaired or replaced. This will improve our asset management and ensure accurate activity costing.’