Top 5 Challenges In Facilities Management

We’ve broken the huge list down to 5 major problems in facilities management.

COST CONTROL
Facility Managers in many companies face a common problem of being pressurized to do more with less. To tackle this, they have to accurately deal with budget constraints. Here’s how they do it :

• Considering all types of costs when preparing budget estimates: fixed, variable, direct and indirect;

• Tracking inventory

• Negotiating prices with suppliers

• Keeping a regular track of maintenance costs and financial information

• Considering some technological investments as value for money.

FM Operations can save money by becoming environment friendly.

They can also :

• Consider simple practices, such as using more natural light

• Moving to LED lighting

• Upgrading to automated buildings technologies, such as solar panels that will allow reductions in energy waste.

MULTITASKING & COORDINATING TEAMS
In order to make operations run smoothly, it is crucial to implement workplace practices that ensure a constant flow of communication, organization, knowledge sharing, productivity and innovation.

As today’s workforce is mobile, the perfect scenario is choosing a web-based facilities management software, that allows the work team to report failures, generate automatized reports and more. This is incredibly useful in any operational task.

After all, the facility managers (and team) should be the number one problem solvers.

TIME MANAGEMENT
Facility managers have a lot to do every day, from coordinating teams, attending meetings, answering urgent emails, consult vendors or suppliers, etc. There are many workers with questions and unpredictable issues to solve.

To answer this problem better, we should take advantage of the developments in technology. Besides making planning and prioritizing tasks easier, it can be helpful in order in managing a wide range of locations in an easy, simple and fast way.

Having Facility Management information stored electronically, like SILA Connect, will help to automatically answer frequent questions, to set up what has to be done first and to organize time. And as we all know: saving time is saving money.

SILA is a real estate platform providing facility management services, real estate project management & advisory, real estate contracting and real estate development.

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