Best Practices for Oil & Gas

Devon Energy reduces planned SAP S/4HANA transformation costs by using EY’s Intelligent Migration Solution. The $10 billion oil and gas producer is a leading independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, providing stable, environmentally responsible production and a platform for future growth. Devon produces approximately 250,000 barrels a day and has a deep inventory of development opportunities to deliver future oil growth. When deploying SAP S/4HANA with the capital constraints of a compressed oil and gas commodity market, a business imperative for Devon is reducing IT transformation costs. For reduced program risk, accelerated project timelines, lowered overall costs, and minimized business disruption, Devon Energy turned to EY, the first global service partner to design end-to-end tools called Intelligent Move Solution from SAP ECC 6.0 using advanced technology. Discover how Devon is planning to transform its business faster, cheaper, and with more accuracy with separate intelligent migration tools for data transformation, configuration, customizations, testing, process mining, and analytics.

Key Business Benefits:

Less time
Fewer resources and costs
Less disruption

Suncor Energy, a leading Canadian integrated energy company, has embarked on a business transformation journey to increase its competitive advantage and business performance. While recognizing that a digital strategy is an important part of any business transformation, the current industry trends mean Suncor believes successful transformation hinges on addressing the often unaddressed basic elements; standardized ways of working, high-quality, trusted data and making it easy for people to do their work. In this session, you will hear how Suncor is executing its business transformation journey in a different way from its past approaches, including adopting SAP Intelligent Enterprise accelerators.

Session theme: Celebrating Diversity, Inspiring Leadership, Embracing the Digital World.

Please join us for our fourth annual Women Connect Reception at the Best Practices for Oil & Gas conference. This year we are excited to discuss how the energy industry is navigating the digital journey. Additionally, gain insight from an out-of-industry panelist.

The reception is dedicated to honoring the exceptional and inspiring women leaders in the oil and gas industry. By bringing together a multitude of thought leaders and seasoned professionals, this group will take a deep dive into hot-button issues experienced throughout all organizations. In addition to the digital journey, discussions will also include diversity, navigating complex work environments, and balancing a successful career with personal life.

Learn about recently released features and functions for SAP Intelligent Asset Management. Get an overview on planned developments and how the road map for the SAP Enterprise Asset Management solution provides information for you to jump-start intelligent asset management in your organization.

Key Business Benefits:

Overview of new product features
Road map for the SAP Enterprise Asset Management solution
Start on intelligent asset management in your organization

Oil and gas companies pursue a bold vision for 2025 to deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable energy products and services focused on the customer and enabled by innovation. To accomplish this, oil and gas companies will implement new business models with a keen focus on customer centricity as they accelerate towards the industry’s energy transition. This will include personalized offerings from live order and inventory management to customer-centric, pay-for-outcome pricing. To accomplish this, they need to continue their digital transformation journey, and they need intelligent and integrated business processes delivered faster and with lower risk from SAP and you. In this interactive discussion, you will hear about SAP’s top oil and gas priorities, decipher key industry event messages, and gain awareness of SAP and company executives attending the conference. This session will close with observations from SAP oil and gas industry sales and business experts. Plan on staying for the combined customer, partner, and SAP BPOG reception.

Key Business Benefits:

Overview of the BPOG conference key themes and messages
List of key executives attending the event
Insights into SAP Model Company, SAP Experience Management, and the intelligent enterprise for oil and gas

The digital industry is now exerting its extraordinary influence on the energy industry, and no one is really prepared for the consequences. The early signs are now in plain view—unrelenting pressure on prices because of supply growth and demand erosion, disruption of entire industry segments through new business models, and a fundamental re-baselining of cost and productivity profiles.

Players in the industry must confront deeply seated orthodoxies, innovate, and adopt new ways of working, or they could be swept aside by these powerful new forces.

During this session, you will:

Find out how digital is creating four forces of unrelenting pressure on the industry. Also hear about how the size and timing of the impacts from these forces will impact the unprepared.
Discover the one essential ingredient that is the future battleground for market supremacy, and efforts by industry giants to mobilize their resources capture the opportunity.
Explore the eight critical digital technologies that will redefine the energy company of the future and how industry leaders are already reconfiguring themselves around these key tools.
Learn what you need to do to set your new digital heading, prepare your organization, and survive where others have faltered.

To enable the energy transition, oil and gas companies are focusing on four strategic priorities:

Extending beyond the barrel: Break free of the traditional energy demand and price curves to capture new value and provide new customer experiences.
Digitalizing products and services: Optimize and automate execution so that transactions are touchless and require minimal manual intervention.
Competing as an ecosystem: Enable fast-track innovation, reduce costs, provide operational transparency, and digitalize assets and humans to eliminate unnecessary and manual transactional work.
Using technology as an enabler: Use digitalization as a catalyst to improve productivity and efficiency in the field and back office in support of corporate strategy.

To execute on these strategic priorities and achieve the 2025 vision, oil and gas companies need to change the way they operate. They will need to focus on areas that differentiate them from their competition.

By shifting routine tasks from humans to automated business processes enabled by machine learning and robotic process automation, they will free up the resources needed to define and pursue innovative and transformative business models.

Key Business Benefits:

Learn about the industry’s adoption of SAP S/4HANA and the intelligent enterprise for energy.
Hear about real-world examples of brownfield and greenfield implementations.
Hear how SAP is collaborating with world-leading oil and gas stakeholders to deliver and implement industry market standard cloud solutions.

Being able to address the global megathemes and the industry challenges will determine who will be among the winners in the next decade. Successful business model innovation, process optimization, and workforce productivity are directly aligned to deliver great customer and employee experiences. In fact, the best-performing companies are pulling away from the rest, widening the performance gap by embracing the cloud to focus on innovation, differentiation, and delivering experiences. In this discussion you will interact and discuss with the oil and gas industry thought leaders about how they are making the move to SAP S/4HANA and co-innovation to implement next-generation cloud solutions and become intelligent enterprises for oil and gas.

Key Business Benefits:

Interact with oil and gas industry thought leaders.
Learn about how peer organizations are making the move to SAP S/4HANA.
Hear about how to implement the next-generation cloud solutions.

In this session, you will hear about the latest developments and innovations from SAP for the oil and gas industry. Learn about the different SAP S/4HANA solutions and their relevance for oil and gas upstream and downstream to help you make your move to SAP S/4HANA. You will learn about the solution road map specific to the oil and gas industry for cloud and on-premise deployments and share the patterns and lessons learned from projects and successful SAP S/4HANA implementations in the industry. See the new business-focused intelligent enterprise road map application in action at this session.

Key Business Benefits:

Innovations for oil and gas downstream and upstream
SAP S/4HANA road map for cloud and on-premise
SAP S/4HANA adoption patterns in the oil and gas industry

Shell is putting data at the core of its digital transformation journey with SAP S/4HANA Cloud as a key enabler. Aspects such as establishing a common data model, adopting market standards, and renewing master data management will be shared in this session.

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