Best Practices for Oil & Gas 2013 - SAP Solutions for the Energy Industry

Key Topics

• Integrated Digital Oilfield Operations
  • Integration of production, maintenance, and engineering for improved planning and optimum decision making
  • Field data collection, validation, surveillance, and notification processes from field systems and engineering applications
  • Best practices for revenue, land, and the financial functions within hydrocarbon accounting
  • Integration and simplification of business between owner operators and oilfield service companies
  • Design and management of integrated data models and hierarchies
• Capital and Spend Effectiveness
  • Management of contingent/contractor workforces
  • Planning and management of large capital programs from cradle to grave including cash flow management
  • Managing large volumes of vendor and material master data records
  • Transitioning from projects to operations
  • Integration and streamlined execution with suppliers
  • Improving the visibility and accuracy of spend data
• Operational Integrity
  • Management of the key risks to people, the environment, and assets for improved process safety
  • Auditable monitoring of key risk indicators, policy and regulatory compliance
  • Management of emissions, product and regulatory compliance, and hazardous substances
  • Maintaining the structural and mechanical integrity of assets to perform as designed
  • Identifying risks associated with field failures and safety issues in master data
  • Training, certification, and maintenance of security of both internal and external 3rd party resources
  • Incident management and management of change
  • Management of linear assets
• Hydrocarbon Supply Chain
  • Improving visibility and support of refining and plant operations
  • Commodity procurement, sales, and risk management
  • Sales planning and execution for all hydrocarbon sales channels, such as bulk, wholesale, and retail
  • Planning, scheduling, and settlement across all elements of the supply chain
  • Compliance reporting (i.e., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC))
• Finance
  • Fast, accurate, compliant, and efficient close process
  • Management of financial performance to execute organizational strategies and control costs
  • Risk and compliance management
  • Managing cash, liquidity, and risk
  • Managing mergers, acquisitions and organizational change
  • Overcoming the struggle with financial reporting
  • Retirement and transfer of assets
  • Migration from classic G/L to new G/L
  • Handling DODD FRANK and other transparency requirements
  • Managing audits of increased complexity
• People and Talent
  • Identification, development, motivation, and retention of needed talent
  • HR and payroll processing for better workforce data and legal compliance
  • Workforce planning and balancing against company strategy
  • Time management and reporting for improved resource effectiveness
  • Knowledge development and management with training and certifications
  • Management of contract labor
• Technology Solutions
  • Real-time and predictive analytics, business intelligence, and performance and risk management
  • 3D and geospatial visualization of operations and maintenance of assets
  • Developing applications and innovation rapidly in a mobile, always-on world of collaborative business networks for secure, cloud-scale applications
  • Zeroing in on the right information at every level of your enterprise by managing your critical data with scalability, trust, and unmatched performance
  • Mobile solutions
  • Unwiring your employees, customers, and partners with proven, highly rated
  • Streamlining applications, analytics, planning, and predictive and sentiment analysis on a single platform based on in-memory technology
  • Using real-time, consumer-grade software to increase productivity and competitiveness that results in innovative consumer applications
• IT Operations and Project Delivery
  • Monitoring all network assets to drive integrated infrastructure and application lifecycle
  • Using application lifecycle management (ALM) best practices, methods, and services based on IT infrastructure library (ITIL)
  • Aligning service-desk operations with service level agreements (SLAs), resolve SLA incidents fast, and adopt ITIL best practices to meet evolving business goals
  • Aligning the portfolio and manage projects to drive innovation efficiently
  • Managing SAP documentation – a library-sized problem
  • Tracking IT costs and risk and map risks and compliance activities to business impact
  • And more

Who should Attend

• Members of the ASUG Oil & Gas Special Interest Groups
• SAP software developers and experienced users
• Key decision makers from the top oil and gas companies from around the world
• Experts behind SAP`s Industry Value Network for Oil & Gas including product and service partners focused on SAP for Oil & Gas user needs
• Hundreds of professionals from the oil and gas industry including upstream, midstream, downstream, and oil field services
• Users of SAP for Oil & Gas solutions