Challenges

• Manage all functional areas including finance, purchasing, inventory, and human resources with a comprehensive ERP application that offers an industry-standard data model to effectively manage oilfield operations and overcome inefficient and error-prone manual processes linked to legacy applications
• Increase data security and integrity by applying roles and authorizations to more than 250 system users
• Automate and accelerate material and service requisition approval, including notification of concerned suppliers—such as drilling services or well construction—to save time and expenses and mitigate risks of delays in oil field exploration
• Integrate payroll and accounting processes, automate employee reimbursements, and make HR core functions such as leave applications, business trip requests, and claims forms available online
• Improve data traceability to streamline audit processes

Solutions

• Deployed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to replace all legacy applications, integrating and streamlining business processes—such as reducing the time required for closing books by 10 days—eliminating redundant processes, achieving substantial efficiency gains across departments, and empowering the company to manage oilfield operations using integrated technical, operational, and financial data
• Automated and standardized core business processes according to oil and gas industry best practices, reducing the time required to enter and process data by an estimated 50% to support business growth
• Achieved end-to-end data security with Oracle’s role and function-based security model
• Enabled the company to rapidly produce accurate monthly management reports—such as budget versus actual, trial balances, operational cost performance against hydrocarbon production volumes, warehouse summary, and supplier aging—and made them available online to managers to strengthen their decision-making capabilities
• Saved time and reduced costs by automating material and service requisition approvals, such as drilling waste management and pipeline commissioning, as well as notifying relevant suppliers—based on events which match predefined rules—without human intervention while mitigating the risk of delays in oil field exploration
• Established full control of suppliers’ invoices by automatically matching all invoice positions with receipts for goods and services, significantly reducing invoicing errors and achieving faster supplier invoice processing
• Automated HR core functions with Oracle Human Resources—such as approving or denying leave requests based on business needs—making reimbursements, appraisals, business trips, and other claims available online, which provides employees with convenient and easy to use self-service tools, and increases HR management efficiency
• Made it easy to comply with audits, since full data drill down is available from the general ledger to the sub-ledger source, and achieved a paperless audit process
• Leveraged Oracle Payroll’s integration with Oracle Financials to automate overtime calculations and employee reimbursements, freeing accounting staff for analytical tasks—such as contract performance management and supplier management
• Resolved technical issues—such as patches, fixes, and updates—immediately with 24/7 support from My Oracle Support

Why Oracle

“We evaluated local ERP solutions, but chose Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 because of its user-friendliness and well known capacity to standardize and integrate business processes to make them more efficient. Further Oracle EBS’s strength in financials has helped us substantially accelerate period-end closing and easily configure any customized report. The role- and function-based security model has provided us with the highest data security ever, and we appreciate the great support service which is available 24/7,” said Atif Al-Siyabi, project manager, Daleel Petroleum Company LLC.

Partner

“Oracle partner Wipro Limited successfully implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in September 2010. The project took about six months, and the partner ensured it was completed on time and within the scheduled budget. It was a pleasure to work with Wipro,” said Atif Al-Siyabi, project manager, Daleel Petroleum Company LLC.