Overview
In Apache’s operating model, a centralized catalog team performed the material master creation and maintenance for all of its regional business units. To reduce the excessive back-and-forth communication between the centralized team and the business units required to clarify local material requirements, Apache made a significant investment and deployed a single SAP ERP instance with a focus on global master data. Unfortunately, without the implementation of data standards and governance, Apache had to contend with poor data quality data in its new system.
This created critical issues in inventory management and reporting, cost management and spend analytics, and sourcing. Users became increasingly dissatisfied. The company contracted a leading management consultant, PwC, to assess the situation. The consultant recommended Apache implement a Master Data Management solution to globally streamline, cleanse, and structure material data and establish an effective governance program.
Founded in: 1954
Oil & Gas exploration and production company
United States, Egypt, United Kingdom
Apache’s Challenges
Controlling costs and managing inventory
Complex, decentralized management
of MRO spare parts materials
Lack of data standards
and governance
Significant investments
in global enterprise resource management system with substandard results
Solution
SpheraCloud Master Data Management
Apache turned to Sphera to help cleanse legacy materials data across six sites and four regions. The goal was to deploy common standards and governance processes, policies, and tools to achieve a sustained approach to reliable data.
Sphera’s MDM solution helps organizations globally structure, visualize and manage data to:
- Improve overall asset management and
business performance - Optimize inventory
- Reduce and manage procurement costs
- Implement reliable maintenance programs
- Improve supply chain relationships
- Maximize enterprise system investments
Results
With Sphera’s Master Data Management solutions, Apache was able to cleanse 67,000 lines of spare parts data, optimize line item detail, and consolidate duplicate entries. In addition, they were able to maintain the integrity of their data with preprogrammed item descriptions as well as the ability to route new material requests to the right people for data completion and approvals. Over time, Apache has introduced more sites and more data and has continued to leverage Sphera’s solution to optimize and govern more than 40,000 lines of additional data.
108,000
optimized and governed catalogs
5.6
Identified and consolidated duplicate inventory entries
1
Centralized, global master data management platform
Reduced maintenance backlog
Optimized inventory
and reduced onetime
purchases
Improved purchasing agreements
and significantly reduced item costs
Seamless integration
with SAP ERP solution
Are you ready to improve the reliability of data as well as the safety of its assets?
Contact us to learn more about Sphera’s Master Data Management solutions.