Context
As the leading public drinking water company in France, Eau de Paris serves over 6 million users daily and distributes more than 510 million cubic meters of water each day. Despite this scale, Eau de Paris's assets are managed across multiple, disconnected information systems. To improve its asset management, the company aims to build a comprehensive description of its entire asset base, implement structured asset management practices, reduce duplicate data entry, identify gaps in its information systems, and better justify its investment needs.
Our solution
- 01 Assessment of asset data (source, usability, reliability level, etc.)
- 02 Define and build the inventory thru 3 dimensions: Geography, functional and technical
- 03 Financial valuation of the assets: lifespans of components, maintenance actions ans cost bases
- 04 Strengthening control of the investment process budgetary constraints, risk management,...
What Oxand delivered
Centralized asset reference framework
A centralized, enriched, and shareable asset reference framework
Optimized management processes
A clear real estate management structure with optimized processes
Questions about this reference
What did Eau de Paris set out to do?
To describe its whole asset base in one place, put structured asset management practices in place, cut duplicate data entry, find the gaps in its information systems and justify its investment needs — where the assets had been managed across several disconnected systems.
Why does a disconnected information landscape matter?
Because the same asset is then entered more than once and reconciled by hand. The cost is not only the duplication: no single system can be relied on to answer what the estate needs, which is what makes an investment case hard to defend.
How was the inventory built?
Along three dimensions at once — geographic, functional and technical — after assessing the existing asset data for its source, its usability and how reliable it actually was.
What does the financial valuation add?
Component lifespans, maintenance actions and cost bases attached to the inventory, which is what turns a description of the estate into something that can carry a budget.
What does Eau de Paris hold at the end?
A centralised, enriched and shareable asset reference framework, and a clearer management structure with the investment process brought under tighter control through budget constraints and risk management.