Best Practices for Oil & Gas

There are number of factors driving the need of improved collaboration within the asset management ecosystem:

Asset operators want to minimize capital investments, operational overheads, and risks. The desire has been to buy products and services provided by the equipment or the equipment availability rather than buying the equipment itself.
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) want to drive revenue growth and competitive advantage with bundled products and services.
Service providers (including EPCs) want to provide value-added services enabled by new technological innovations.

The transition to the digital economy and the increasing adoption of new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based networks provide an opportunity to automate the data exchange and enable a simplified collaboration model among these stakeholders via asset management networks. This session will present fundamental changes that needed to take place in the supply chain and asset lifecycle management to realize a next epoch of value from our increasingly complex assets. Experience a demo and provide your feedback. We are interested in understanding your priorities for this area.

SAP Ariba Open APIs provide an open, secure, and scalable way to build new functionality for SAP Ariba solutions and Ariba Network, gain access to SAP and third-party cloud-based data, and create valuable new end-user solutions through the SAP Ariba platform technology. SAP Ariba Open APIs help customers and partners transcend organizational boundaries to extend existing business processes, build new solutions catering to a specific region or industry, or simply drive analytics by sourcing business data. Removal of traditional software boundaries opens up new possibilities internally as well externally. Join this interactive influence session to learn about planned developments for Digital Field Ticket and related APIs within SAP solutions. Experience a demo and provide your feedback. We are interested in understanding your priorities for this area.

We all know that oil and gas companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on products and services to run their operations. What is lesser-known is the very real and significant risk, hidden deep within the transactions between vendors and employees, that can equate to tens of millions of dollars. More alarming is that most organizations feel their existing internal controls and compliance strategies are adequate enough to address this risk.

This session will outline the fact that 4–5% of an organization’s annual revenue is what is at risk to occupational fraud, a significant amount of bottom-line revenue leakage right before our eyes! Examples of these occurrences and their countermeasures will be explored, with an emphasis on what we can do today to realize ROI while reducing the losses we aren’t even aware of. Through continuous monitoring and analytics, oil and gas companies can reduce risk while proactively evaluating controls and identifying risk where additional training, controls, or policy are needed to ensure organizational success and stability for the future

This session will focus on examples of oil and gas companies that have successfully started their operational excellence transformation process. Hear what criteria were used to develop the plan, where they choose to start their process, and what success they have achieved. Learn about how peers have used a simple methodology to align key stakeholders with key business goals and objectives to improve operations, and create success and momentum within your company to sustain initiatives for business transformation.

Managing data for MRO, spare parts, plant maintenance, and complex supply chain materials has always been a challenge. Prospecta’s “Master Data Online” solution, MDO, addresses problems such as duplicity, lack of standardization of spares, no data governance, missing manufacturing part numbers, inventory optimization mass data, etc. It is an end-to-end data governance platform with a strong data quality framework that has multilingual capability. MDO governs your data and keeps it aligned to industry standards such as UNSPSC, GS1, and ISO 8000 data quality standards. As an SAP OEM solution, MDO is available on the SAP App Center and has the capability to integrate with multiple third-party systems. Learn how your partners and supply chain can utilize MDO for entering material and vendor data with governance built in.

SAP Asset Manager provides mobility and automation out of the box for service workers in the field. This session will provide an overview of the new features available in the latest release of SAP Asset Manager 4.0 as well as Deloitte’s co-innovation extensions, developed with SAP and Apple, to help you to accelerate your digital transformation journey.

What if you could build a solution that automatically routes create or update data requests to the responsible parties? What if different people could work in parallel on supplying or approving the data? And, what if instead of manually keying data into SAP, you could not only validate and post to SAP with a couple of clicks, but also have full visibility into the workflow progress during and after completion?

All of these things are possible with an automated workflow solution—and the time savings can be dramatic. We regularly see our customers reduce their data digitization process cycle time by 50% or more and make global award-winning strategic impacts on the ways their companies do business.

Over the past two years alone, 90% of the data in the world was generated. How do you manage the content, track the inputs, and make sense of the data? The Havensight digital forms solution enables business units to easily create forms and workflow without IT resources while allowing corporate IT to maintain control over data, security, and standards. Business value is rapidly achieved through our cost-effective, enterprise-grade technology platform. Our team will take you through the key features of this transformational platform and share use cases that will encourage attendees to ponder their own needs across the enterprise.

Neptune Software DX Platform is a powerful application development platform that simplifies application development on SAP and reduced development effort by up to 80%. Zag, a Neptune Software channel partner, has used this platform to build the most comprehensive SAP Plant Maintenance solution. Neptune Software will give a quick introduction of its platform, and ZAG will conduct a live demo of its SAP Plant Maintenance product, BlueWorx, which is already being used in the oil and gas industry in Houston.

Interactive influence sessions focused on a specific topic hosted by a moderator and product expert. These sessions encourage interactive discussions between the speakers and the audience and are used to gather your input and prioritize features for future development. Sessions are held in an open seating format on the expo floor for 40-45 minutes.