Blanket Contract and Procurement in Maximo

A friend of mine who has experience with SAP asked whether Maximo can handle a “Blanket PO” process similar to SAP. I sent him my answer based on the scenario and requirement he provided and think it is probably worth posting here as some other people may find it interesting:

Maximo custom control (Part IV) – Create a chart control

In the previous posts, we have practised on how to create a JSP page, register it as component, and register a control. We also discussed on how to pass properties from control to its components and use it with conditional UI.

In this post, I will provide an example to build a chart control to display meter data of an asset.

Maximo custom control (Part III) – Conditional UI with custom properties

In the last exercise, we added new properties to a control, and by doing so, we have better understanding that the properties of a control is defined inside the <property-list>…</property-list> XML element. We also know how properties are passed from control level to its components.

If you have some experience with Application Designer, you must already know that, we can dynamically modify value of a property using Conditional UI. We can do the same with the custom properties that we recently added.

With the two properties: “part1size”  and “part2size” added to the multipart textbox in the previous exercise, let’s configure a simple Conditional UI to demonstrate this capabily:

Maximo custom control (Part II) – Control properties

In my last post, I created a super simple control with just a “Hello World” label. The goal of the exercise is for us to identify the core components of a control. In this post, I’ll continue to expand the exercise so we can better understand Maximo’s controls.

One common requirement the need modify the size of the multipart textbox control, usually to increase the size of the first textbox to fully display long ID of item or asset.

Application Designer doesn’t provide us with an option to modify this.

Getting Started with Maximo's Custom Control (Part I)

Application Designer is a powerful tool to customise Maxmo’s GUI. However, in certain situation, it couldn’t do what we want to meet the requirements of our clients. In that case, we can look at customising Web UI module.

In this series, I will provide step-by-step instructions on how to customise controls in Maximo. The aim is to help beginners get familiar with the framework by going from the most basic modification then build up from there. 

Part I -  Create a simple Label control: 

Let’s get started by displaying a ‘Hello World!’ label on the main screen of the Asset application. We can do that by creating our own custom control.

Maximo's ABC Analysis and Physical Count

A friend recently asked me on LinkedIn about Inventory ABC analysis on Maximo and how to setup physical cycle count. After responding to him, I thought it could be posted on this blog to share with other Maximo users who like to know more about this function.

First page of the ABC Analysis Report

ABC Analysis is the method of categorizing inventory items into three groups: fast moving, average, and low moving. This method is commonly used in ERP systems like SAP or Oracle.

Maximo with Oracle’s InMemory (Part 2) – Huge Performance Gain

Last week, I played around with Oracle’s new toy: the InMemory feature available in Enterprise Edition. Although it made Maximo runs 1.25x faster, but it didn’t meet my expectation which was from 2x to 5x. This has bothered me for the whole week and I kept thinking about it.

If you’ve read my previous blog post, the one thing I pointed out which could lead to no performance improvement is that I ran the test on a tiny demo version. It has only a few hundred assets and less than a thousand work orders. So, any heavy processes or poorly written queries couldn’t make the database 1 second slower. This week, I set out to do a more elaborate test with a setting that looks more similar to a real production environment.