Best Practices for Oil & Gas 2013 - SAP Solutions for the Energy Industry is a conference that covers topics such as:
- 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
Best Practices for Oil & Gas 2013 - SAP Solutions for the Energy Industry brings together:
- 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
