For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP for Oil & Gas, check out the following information:

Overview

• "Oil and Gas Industry -- Strategies for Profitable Growth" (PDF, 1.3 MB) -- Overcome rising prices and mounting regulatory pressures by increasing efficiency with the SAP for Oil & Gas set of solutions -- and streamline supply chain information flow, integrate enterprise data, and maximize business transparency.

Solution Briefs

• "Enterprise Asset Management" (PDF, 158 KB) -- Explore how SAP Service and Asset Management, an integrated, end-to-end solution for the entire asset management business process, can help you maximize returns on assets, meet performance targets, and reduce costs to surmount challenges of a capital-intensive industry.
• "Global Solutions Without Boundaries" (PDF, 174 KB) Consider how SAP solutions can rapidly deliver facts and figures needed in your extended value chain through the SAP NetWeaver platform -- designed to meet diverse business and legal requirements worldwide, supporting multiple languages, multiple currencies, and multiple time zones.
• "Improved Logistics and Integrated Processes for Downstream Companies and Subsidiaries" (PDF, 133 KB) -- Learn how the SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution application helps you integrate your business. This complete offering includes software, training, support, and hardware -- all hosted by SAP -- for rapid deployment.
• "SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution" (PDF, 218 KB) -- See how to manage the complex, fast-moving marketing and distribution of oil and gas products. Use the SAP Oil & Gas Secondary Distribution packaged solution to integrate business processes -- from sales, customer service, and supply chain to finance and reporting.
• "SAP xApp Emissions Management" (PDF, 174 KB) -- Learn ways to manage emissions in compliance with government regulations with the SAP xApp Emissions Management packaged composite application -- and meet greenhouse regulations now while reducing future risk by tracking legislation, so you can adjust internal processes.
• "SAP xApp Integrated Exploration and Production" (PDF, 172 KB) -- Find out how to use the SAP xApp Integrated Exploration and Production packaged composite application to help you manage complex supply chains and contain costs -- by integrating applications and providing real-time information access so you can streamline processes.

Functions in Detail

• "SAP xApp Emissions Management" (PDF, 222 KB) -- Find out how tools in the SAP xApp Emissions Management (SAP xEM) packaged composite application control, measure, and document emissions output to improve productivity and help reduce the risk of costly fines -- and learn how SAP xEM supports new revenue streams by helping you trade emissions credits.

Solutions in Detail

• "SAP Trader's and Scheduler's Workbench for the Oil And Gas Industry" (PDF, 1.1 MB) -- Explore how this application enables oil and gas companies to completely control scheduling and managing shipments with tools for modeling the supply chain, building and maintaining schedules, and simulating and monitoring movements.

White Paper

• "Enterprise Services Architecture - An Introduction" (PDF, 260 KB) -- Discover how Enterprise Services Architecture, enabled by the SAP NetWeaver platform, gives a blueprint for flexibility and business efficiency to the increasingly complex and regulated oil and gas business -- without increasing costs.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Smart Enterprise Enabled by SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 93 KB) -- Consider how organizations need to work smarter and be more agile if they are to survive in today's business climate. To be a smart business, companies must deploy a comprehensive and integrated suite of information and collaborative solutions. BI Research (2004)
• "The Digital Oil Field of the Future: Keys to Success" (PDF, 6.1 MB) -- Understand the critical factors that lead to a well executed DOFF (digital oil field of the future) program -- and how SAP solutions support DOFF initiatives by creating efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. Accenture (September 2005)