Abstract:
To focus on its core business and to leverage the upkeep costs, a firm has outsourced its facility management of commercial building to an operation and maintenance (O&M) service company. Such an O&M service company hires skilled technicians who overlook specialized equipment and search for a cost saving opportunity. Nevertheless, an O&M service company is heavily relied on experience of a site manager, an on-site employee who responses to any unplanned incidents and executes planned operations. To compensate for an inexperienced manager, an O&M service company requires real time information and centralized analysis. In this article, a case study service company that suffered from delays of information and improved its manual data collection using a report system was presented. Improving of the new reporting system does not only allow the service company to lessen the burden of site managers, but also fuel its business expansion as well as standardizes operation practice. As a part of its core competency, the service company decided to develop all aspects of the online in-house reporting system as well as piloted the system in four different sites. After the six months of implementation, the average reporting time was significantly reduced from average 11.25 days with standard deviation 4.48 days to 4.04 days with standard deviation 1.49 days.