FACILITY MANAGEMENT

OCS India to offer TFM services

Mr.Prashant Sule,Mr.Sheldon Simons,Mr. Chris Cracknell, Heather Suksem, Mr.Pradeep P Menon,Ramesh Pimple The UK-based OCS Group, which has been making significant investments in India over the last few years, has announced…

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Effectively Realising Synergies in the Supply-Service Chain?

In the supply-service-serviced chain, identifying, quantifying, executing, and tracking synergies across the portfolio of deals and deeds among the three, increase the profitability of the companies involved. To provide industry players opportunities to learn
best practices through effective synergies in successful models, Mohana M discusses the successful collaboration between equipment supplier & service provider and service provider & end user.

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What are Facility Costs?

Let’s face it, the cost associated with employees, payroll, and benefits are the largest operational cost for most businesses. Then what are these facility costs which add to operational expenses?

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Outsourcing Experience

Understanding the contractor, defining the contract and implementing the contractual terms are vital for the success of an outsourcing model. The right handling of the outsourced contractor is an evolving experience for any FM head of a facility. Here are a few points to ponder…

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Balanced scorecard to measure FM Performance

For nearly 20 years, leading organizations have been using balanced scorecards to strategically measure the financial and non-financial performance of different operational functions within their firms. More recently, they have begun leveraging them to measure the performance of their third-party service providers.

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Building maintenance is a sustainable feature

Maintenance contributes to sustainability in different ways: It ensures reduction in energy and resource by ensuring durability and reduces life cycle cost. Even all the internationally recognized systems for assessing building environmental performance like LEED (USGBC), BREEAM, HQE, etc. include building maintenance as an important part of the assessment criteria.

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Hygiene in Housekeeping

In common parlance hygiene in housekeeping denotes general care, cleanliness, orderliness and maintenance of business property. But hygiene is much more than just maintenance of premises. Clean India Journal speaks to some experts in the hospitality and other industries, where hygiene in housekeeping plays a very important role.

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