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

Strategies for Profitable Growth

• "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

• "Architecting Duet for Your Organization" (PDF, 104 KB) – Recognize the value that Duet software, a joint product from SAP and Microsoft Corporation, can provide to your organization. SAP Consulting provides companies with complex business and IT environments specialized guidance and assessment for Duet, tailoring Duet specifically to your organization.
• "Comprehensive Emissions Management from SAP and Technidata" (PDF, 165 KB) – Read about how the law demands emissions management, and the public expects clean companies. Meeting those expectations is a challenge and opportunity. With the quick-start package for the SAP xApp Emissions Management (SAP xEM) composite application, you can take steps toward comprehensive emissions management.
• "End-to-End Support for Cost and Quotation Management" (PDF, 126 KB) – Examine how the SAP xApp Cost and Quotation Management (SAP xCQM) composite application streamlines the cost and quotation management process, increases productivity, and reduces costs. SAP xCQM provides access to costing information and analytical capabilities which help win more opportunities.
• "Enterprise Asset Management" (PDF, 258 KB) – Enhance your strategy for optimizing enterprise asset management (EAM) and improving asset usage and maintenance by reducing operating costs and capital expenditures. The SAP Service and Asset Management solution provides end-to-end, integrated capabilities for the entire EAM business process.
• "Fuel Distribution: Power and Efficiency for Midsize Businesses in a Managed Solution from SAP" (PDF, 98 KB) – Discover how SAP managed solutions deliver the same powerful functionality used by SAP customers worldwide in a package designed for midsize businesses. The solution provides operational efficiency to your growing business in a simple package with a low up-front cost and manageable monthly fees.
• "Global Solutions Without Boundaries" (PDF, 200 KB) – Explore how the SAP ERP application and the SAP NetWeaver platform helps customers, business partners, and suppliers get the information they need when they need it, in the right language, currencies, and time zones. And take into account diverse legal frameworks, lifestyles, and local business requirements.
• "Mitigating Risk for SAP Operations" (PDF, 120 KB) – Consider why SAP Application Hosting can help you identify and reduce risks, while supporting SAP software operations. Although outsourcing can have a positive impact on mission-critical IT and business operations, it can also drain time, money, and resources. SAP experts can help you with careful collaboration and planning.
• "Paving the Way to a Successful Upgrade Project" (PDF, 173 KB) – Understand how the SAP Upgrade Assessment for SAP ERP service delivers the expert advice and assistance you need to upgrade to a new SAP ERP release. We help you find the right services for upgrade projects, provide effective training, identify where you can increase business value, and help you develop a solid business case.
• "Safeguarding Upgrades of Your SAP Applications" (PDF, 250 KB) – Learn how organizations are managing SAP software upgrades with SAP safeguarding services that anticipate challenges at every project stage. A customized plan, upgrade blueprint, technical quality manager, and on-site support team are just some of the highlights of the SAP Safeguarding for Upgrade portfolio of services.
• "SAP Service and Asset Management" (PDF, 151 KB) – Consider how the SAP Service and Asset Management solution provides capabilities for service management, enterprise asset management, service parts management, and IT asset and services management. So you can increase revenues, reduce costs, and increase equipment uptime and reliability.
• "Service Management" (PDF, 164 KB) – Find out how the SAP Service and Asset Management solution helps you manage service as a strategic line of business – to grow service profits, strengthen customer loyalty, and create competitive advantage.
• "Transform Your Organization with Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture" (PDF, 132 KB) – Consider how enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) can help your organization achieve services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. Using the SAP NetWeaver platform as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA helps increases adaptability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

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

• "Enabling An Integrated Enterprise Laboratory Information Management System With SAP ERP" (PDF, 231 KB) – Learn how the quality management functions in the SAP ERP application address the challenges faced by laboratories. Discover how an integrated LIMS can streamline quality processes, cut costs and delays out of quality processes, provide rapid ROI initially, and lower total cost of ownership over time.
• "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 Papers

• "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise" (PDF, 416 KB) – Learn how you can use SAP software to help address the causes of variability and better manage exceptions, while leveraging lean manufacturing and Six Sigma best practices. Handle large amounts of data and execute complex workflows, while electronically communicating any exceptions simultaneously to multiple locations. Log-in required.
• "Talent Management: The New Business Imperative" (PDF, 634 KB) – Read this report from BusinessWeek Research Services and SAP. Executives know that a talent shortage is coming, if it hasn't arrived already. Talent management, with strategic workforce planning, helps companies face the crisis. More companies are adopting processes and tools to recruit, retain, develop and deploy talent. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "The Digital Oil Field of the Future: Keys to Success" (PDF, 364 KB) – Understand the critical factors that lead to a well executed digital oil field of the future (DOFF) program – and how SAP solutions support DOFF initiatives by creating efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. Accenture (September 2005) Log-in required.