--- title: Not Getting the Benefits You Expect From Maintenance Planning & Scheduling? description: Here are 9 reasons why you might not be seeing the benefits of Maintenance Planning & Scheduling. n many cases,CMMS scheduling tools are often mundane and tedious, not aligning with your business processes. Organizations try to fit that tool (round peg - square hole mentality) by changing their business process, often re-routing data to excel spreadsheets to manage the day-to-day and KPI reporting. This then leads to frustration, inefficiencies, lack of insights or just the wrong and inaccurate metrics being produced. Not to mention the $$ flying out the window! image: https://www.getsockeye.com/hubfs/maintenance-planning-scheduling.jpg --- [![Logo-1](https://www.getsockeye.com/hubfs/Logo-1.png "Logo-1")](https://www.getsockeye.com) # Sockeye Blog # Not Getting the Benefits You Expect From Maintenance Planning & Scheduling? [Sockeye](https://441919.hs-sites.com/blog/author/sockeye) May 28, 2015 Find me on: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![maintenance-planning-scheduling](https://www.getsockeye.com/hubfs/maintenance-planning-scheduling.jpg)Here are 9 reasons why you might not be seeing the benefits of Maintenance Planning & Scheduling.  1. **Wrong system tools for the job.** 2. ****Insufficient staff.** ** 3. ****Insufficient skills.** ** 4. **Incorrect role definition.**  5. **No procedures to follow or staff lacks the discipline to follow them. ** 6. ****Shops resist following the schedule and the job plans.** ** 7. **No metrics for reporting schedule compliance and attainment.**  8. **No management support.**  9. **No recognition of the financial impact of low productivity and poor customer service due to poor planning and scheduling. **  **Steve Mueller** of **[Daniel Penn & Associates](http://www.danielpenn.com/) **highlights these culprits, including #1 - The Wrong System Tools for the Job.  [Read his full article on Plant Engineering](http://www.plantengineering.com/single-article/nine-reasons-your-facilities-maintenance-planning-and-scheduling-effort-isnt-giving-you-the-benefits-you-expect/0b16249fd7d75dc5fe37493bacdce04f.html).  **What Does the Wrong Scheduling Tool Cause in an Organization?** In many cases, CMMS scheduling tools are often mundane and tedious, not aligning with your business processes.  Organizations try to fit that tool (round peg - square hole mentality) by changing their business process, often re-routing data to excel spreadsheets to manage the day-to-day andKPI reporting. This then leads to frustration, inefficiencies, lack of insights or just the wrong and inaccurate metrics being produced. Not to mention the $$ flying out the window! **![image-068859-edited](https://441919.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Right_Tool_for_the_Job.png?width=420&name=Right_Tool_for_the_Job.png "image-068859-edited")**   **What Can The Right Maintenance Scheduling Tool Really Offer?** 1. Simple and friendly user interface - planners and schedulers will want to use it! 2. Easy integration and cloud based - say bye-bye to all-in-one software and big costs! 3. Real-time data, pulled into one place - no more cut and pasting work orders! 4. Breathe in the visibility - Preventative, Proactive, Planned, Scheduled; it's all there! 5. Reliable KPI's - plan knowing you have accurate KPI's and no more spreadsheets! All of these facts can lead to many efficiencies and most importantly, impact your bottom-line. And what we believe is most beneficial about Scheduling tools - they are built to focus on one thing - managing the Maintenance process. The good tools should not promise anything other than this, nor try to reinvent the wheel - but rather deliver what you need and that's to be able to simply plan and schedule your maintenance activities. **CREDITS:** Article: "Nine reasons your facilities maintenance planning and scheduling effort isn’t giving you the benefits you expect" - Written by Steve Mueller, Director of Operations for [Daniel Penn Associates, LLC](http://www.danielpenn.com/).  This article was originally published on [Daniel Penn Associates Blog](http://www.danielpenn.com/blog/), Daniel Penn Associates, LLC is a CFE Media content partner. 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