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Planning Excellence through Collaboration
14 November 2012
Christine Ashton Global Head, IT Strategy and Security
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Hasdrubal gas processing plant
Tunisia
Agenda
Company Overview
3
4
5
2 The Planning Challenge
The Project
Key Challenges & Success Factors
Programme Management
1
Benefits 6
The Journey followed by Questions 7
About BG Group
4
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge 2 Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7
Oil and Gas industry
Operating in over 20
countries across 5 continents
Annual turnover in 2011 was
$21 billion in 2011
Over 6,000 employees
The Planning Challenge
5
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
Budgets
Actuals
Forecasts Strategic
Plans
Performance
Management
Investment
Cases
Group Budget
Performance
Contracts
External
Guidance
A&D
Credit Rating
Updates
Quarterly Results
Enterprise Planning and Forecasting
6
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
EPM = SAP solutions for enterprise performance management
Provide BG Group with
“best-in-class” planning and
forecasting capabilities
Global standardised
templates and reporting
Common SAP NetWeaver
BW data warehouse as
integration layer
Integrated EPM applications
– planning and forecasting
Generate Global
Assumptions
Prepare
Estimates Review
Publish and
Close
Planning and Forecasting
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Costs Headcount Projects Exploration Finance Tax Treasury
Complex Planning Implementation
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The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
Collaboration led input and analysis
Circa 500 users in over 20 countries
Multiple planning models (50m records)
Fully integrated financial statements
Single instance deployed big-bang
Integrated 20+ year plan
SAP Reporting Layer
Enterprise Planning Architecture
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User
Groups
Integration
User
Interface
Business
Applications
Source /
Data
Warehouse
Layer
(SAP
NetWeaver
BW and
other)
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
Planning and Forecasting
Data Entry
User
Accounting
User
MIS
User
Operational
User
SAP Business
Planning and
Consolidation (BPC)
SAP Business
Consolidation (BCS)
SAP NetWeaver Business
Warehouse
Other
Sources
PEEP
Extracts
SAP ERP:
Projects (PS) / HR / Financials
Management
reporting of actuals
and planning data
6 Planning and
Forecasting 5
Data and master data 4
Data only 6 Consolidated
data 3
Consolidation processing 2
Data and master data 1
Programme Management
Limited window 1st of its kind Quality focus
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
Programme Team Charter
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Implementation approach
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The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
• Collaboration between teams
essential to success
• Engagement from business at
regular intervals – no ‘black box’
development
• Highly skilled teams from both
organisations
• Business led priorities
• Deliverable based, results driven
• Focus on business value of
delivered solution
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Key Challenges and Success Factors
Key challenges
faced
• Difficulty in programme planning for this type of development
• Operability of the final solution
• Interim milestone delay crossing with year-end
Key contributors to
the success of your
project
• Quality of people willing to make it work
• Team-working ethos
• Effective governance model
Key lessons learnt
• Design must be integrated and modeled for productive operation
• Challenge the assumptions of the project plan aggressively
• Ensure that product can deliver ‘day in the life of…’ scenarios
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
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Benefits
The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
Business objectives
targeted
• System required to support growth strategy
• Scalability
• Improved resolution on planning
• Consistent user interface
• Single version of the ‘truth’
• Replacement programme for planning process
Business benefits
achieved
• In line with objectives plus comprehensive data set
• More efficient collaboration between individuals
• Accuracy of data
• Faster processes
• Improved understanding of Business Risk
• Supports ‘big data’ in single architecture for actuals and planning
The Journey
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The Project 3
Programme
Management 4 Key Challenges &
Success Factors 5 The Planning
Challenge
Company
Overview 1 Benefits
6 The Journey followed
by Questions 7 2
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A bit about me
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Christine Ashton
Background • Prior to joining BG Group, I led the Group Strategy and Technology
group for Transport for London
Previous Role in
BG Group
• I joined BG Group as Regional CIO AMEA/ECA in August 2010
Current Role in
BG Group
• Global Head, IT Strategy and Security
My Career • Track record in Utilities and Oil and Gas sectors leading large scale IT
and delivering business, organizational and transformational change
• Experienced in the design and delivery of complex programmes
• I participate in industry forums and advisory boards, serving as; a Non
Exec Director of the UKPA for 5 years and on the BCS strategy forum
• I am a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) This year I was
proud to be nominated the 12th most influential women in UK IT
Interests • In my spare time I am a fund raiser for a number of charities and most
recently did a sponsored sleep with Action for Children