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Simpler data to reconcile such as data descriptions of spare parts or crew members’ experience descriptions involve less options. Even so we run into description variance requiring an important decision regarding which variances could constitute the KPI.

Integrating varied data points
We often hear about data driven decision making. How can we do this without reconciling data?
We as humans manage to reconcile varied data points because we understand how they are generated. But this is not always consistent in systems as there are often many considerations before we can arrive at a merging of data points.

Integration and Data Unification Are the Same Challenge
Reconciling data and integration have the same set of concerns. It is about knowing how the data generated. So before it attracts attention as a data point useful for decision making, it is important to recognise how it is generated.

Caring about data
For KPI to work, someone has to care. Someone who is committed to the domain and to extracting the data to assist decisions.

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Integrated Reporting
Inventory Management integrates with Maintenance and Procurement.
This means Task Assistant ® enables spares consumption to be linked to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance
Replenishment is recorded seamlessly at PO delivery and storage locations can be assigned at a later date.

Unified Data
Task Assistant ® integrated applications mean that data is unified. This is a very strong argument in favour of a system that, by design, guarantees meaningful reports and data trends

Informative Data Trends
Task orientation is a core Task Assistant ® principle that ensures software emulates on-board work. It is the principle that promotes integrated reporting. The benefit is that reporting is effortless since the system by default understands the link between Maintenance, Procurement and Inventory management tasks.
As a result, related processes share the rich data, making decisions and information all the easier

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How it works
The Central Components Library is a database of ships’ technical components; each component with its spare parts, maintenance information and full history, stored centrally and linked to common core descriptions.
Instances of components per ship are derived from the Central Library while retaining the core commonality of identifications.
New information from ship’s duty and requisitions is completed locally but also available centrally.
What it resolves
This is in contrast to defining each of these components individually, thus introducing different identifications for each ship when in fact they are the same machines with just serial number difference. Since components are originally sourced from the same manufacturers, who define the ways in which we identify parts and perform procurement, it is the natural approach to retain unified information for the same machinery and parts across the fleet.
Some of the benefits
An assets management system with a central component library favours statistical comparisons and offers overviews of component maintenance and procurement which makes it a very powerful tool in controlling and optimising life-cycle costs.

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Restricting this to data field exchange is similar to agreeing when to pass a ball: It assumes no one will vary the scenarios.
In a world where computers are undisputedly productivity tools, we can’t slow down productivity improvements either via monolithic applications or by applying unsophisticated integration. We need teamwork.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dimitris-lyras-90451115_ulyssessystems-bestofbreed-integration-activity-6707295828077264896-4Zri

ERP Integration Best of Breed Team Work

Software is similar, in that productivity can increase tremendously going forward.
We can think of the software vendors, who can increase the productivity of an enterprise, as being the star players.
Can you expect one vendor to increase your productivity to the highest level possible in every module? If not who will make sure you can access the highest productivity in every module?

People that care about productivity and know the marine business like the backs of their hands.
People that care about how your systems integrate with the highest productivity tools.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dimitris-lyras-90451115_ulyssessystems-bestofbreed-integration-activity-6707295828077264896-4Zri

ERP Integration Best of Breed Team Work

All of the above are not only possible, but likely if not inevitable within the lifecycle of your Shipmanagement solution and while your company may be prepared for these scenarios, that does not mean that your software is.
At Ulysses we have come across countless companies that know exactly what they want to change, how they want to change and until when.
The only thing holding them back is the brittleness of their software.
Ulysses offers a configurable platform that can be torn down and built from scratch without losing historical data at a pace that is faster than other systems get deployed.

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“At Arcadia Shipmanagement we have been using the Task Assistant since 2005
During this long period we have worked with many Ulysses consultants and support engineers
Solutions and dedication have been a continuing guarantee
Ulysses’ high staff retention rates have been very useful with a number of Ulysses people having served us for over a decade”

About Arcadia:
In 2007 Arcadia won the Lloyds list “Tanker Company of the year” and a Green Award certificate holder
Green Award certified companies and vessels are entitled to various incentives to encourage their socially responsible behavior.
All of Arcadia’s vessels fly the Greek flag whilst placing great importance to the long tradition of Greece being at the forefront of the Maritime Industry.
Arcadia also hosts the offices of Olympiacos Basketball Club which has seen the most successful years of its history under the current management

https://www.greenaward.org/sea-shipping/organisation/
https://www.arcadiasm.gr/news-events/24-tanker-company-of-the-year2007.html

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Big Change

It was a five version leap which is both unusual and challenging and many new features were enabled for users

The upgrade required good preparation, planning and execution by the joint Exmar and Ulysses teams

Vetting Inspections

Execution was even trickier considering that three vessels had planned vetting inspections at the time of the upgrade, but in the end disruption and downtime were both minimal

The vessels that had planned audits continued to use the previous version until the inspections were concluded and were then subsequently upgraded

Users went home on Friday closing having worked on the previous version and on Monday at opening went straight to using the latest version

About Task Assistant Upgrades

Ulysses produces regular TA upgrades which are available to all users upon release.

TA upgrades are interoperable which allow vessels to operate on different versions.
This eliminates the risks of upgrade execution, ensuring a smooth transition from one version to another.

All shipmanagers that have used the TA have successfully upgraded multiple versions.

Hotfixes are installed automatically on all workstations and on every version.

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