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SAP Utilities Portal @ eIT.in - SAP Utilities Directory, Jobs, Books, Training
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SAP Utilities Portal @ eIT.in - SAP Utilities Directory, Jobs, Books, Training
The SAP Utilities Portal at eIT.in provides comprehensive web resources for many aspects of SAP Utilities. The aim is to be a gathering spot of web resources for SAP Utilities that will benefit a wide range of professionals – companies implementing SAP Utilities, individuals & professionals involved in SAP Utilities implementation / use, students seeking information on SAP Utilities as a career choice, recruiters looking for SAP professionals and consultants and experts seeking more info on the latest in SAP Utilities.
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1. SAP Utilities Books & SAP Utilities Guides
1. SAP for Utilities: Press Fact Sheet, April 2005 (Source SAP web page)
Industry Background Utilities companies face an increasingly challenging future as markets undergo the complex transition from incumbent to competitive and move towards increasingly global operations and cooperation. The pressure of new competitors, public scrutiny and regulatory and environmental requirements accompany continuing needs to cut costs of managing assets, delivering service and procurement. Forward-thinking companies are developing strategies to secure their financial foothold while maintaining customer focus, asset utilization, and the flexibility to innovate business as customer and market demands change. Utilities companies must establish an IT environment that supports new business processes and information needs emerging in the utilities industry - for example, country-specific mechanics in newly deregulated markets - while continually strengthening customer relationships and achieving operational excellence.
Business Benefits of SAP for Utilities SAP has designed the SAP for Utilities industry solution set to help companies across all industry segments and regardless of geographic location. SAP for Utilities helps companies:
Improve decision-making, customer focus and enterprise performance by leveraging enhanced visibility across business processes, customer demands and field operations Manage regulatory compliance by enabling centralized documentation of internal controls, online controls for internal and external auditors, and exporting data to auditing software Create automated processes and better utilize assets across the energy value chain from meter reading and network billing to settlement and invoicing and improve asset utilization and reliability across the asset value chain from design to decommissioning Achieve the agility to adapt swiftly to changing market mechanics through the scalable and flexible architecture of the SAP NetWeaver™ platform Solidify risk management by supporting efficient load schedule management, reliable forecasting and management of high volume interval data as well as integrate information and processes from portfolio management, energy trading and risk management Key Statistics for SAP for Utilities SAP for Utilities serves more than 950 investor-owned and public utilities in regulated and deregulated markets spanning 70 countries. Customers include Aguas Argentinas (Argentina); EnergyAustralia (Australia); Electrabel (Belgium); Bandeirante Energia, Copel (Brazil); BC Hydro, Hydro Quebec and GazMet (Canada); EDF (France); EnBW, E.ON, Vattenfall Europe and RWE (Germany); CLP Power (Hong Kong); Enel (Italy); Kyushu Electric Power (Japan); NUON, Essent, PWN (The Netherlands); EDP (Portugal); Iberdrola, Endesa (Spain); City of Cape Town (South Africa); Vattenfall (Sweden); Centrica and Yorkshire Water (UK); and Entergy, FirstEnergy, WaterOne and OG&E (USA). Six years after its launch, SAP's utilities billing application is now licensed by more than 500 utility companies - with as few as 400 to as many as 30 million customers -- for the management of over 320 million supply contracts on electricity, gas and water. More than 350 utilities worldwide run SAP for Utilities to support mission-critical enterprise asset management. More than 200 municipality utilities and more than 150 water utilities are running SAP for Utilities solutions to manage their customers and assets. SAP for Utilities holds a worldwide market share of 27 percent in terms of supply contracts managed. Excluding legacy systems, the global market share is close to 50 percent. In Germany, SAP's market share is over 85 percent based on contracts managed. SAP has the industry's largest user group for utilities and operates one of the most active partner programs in the industry, with more than 100 partners worldwide specialized in providing solutions and services to utility companies. SAP's utilities solutions are ranked as leaders in MetaSpectrum CIS (customer information systems) and MetaSpectrum WMS (workforce management systems), and are contributing to SAP's leadership in Gartner's Enterprise Asset Management Magic Quadrant. Subsegment and Value Chain Areas of SAP for Utilities Power generation companies face a difficult balance - fulfilling customers' energy demands while meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining a reliable system with optimized outage timelines. SAP's utilities solution set addresses these challenges helping companies manage power plants' entire life cycles and tightly integrate maintenance, safety and operational processes. For natural gas companies, SAP taps its expertise in the chemicals, mining, oil and gas and utilities industries to meet complex financial and logistic challenges. SAP for Utilities offers the applications natural gas companies need to collaborate effectively with widely dispersed international partners and optimize processes across the gas value chain -- from exploration and production to transmission, distribution, third-party access and retail. Water utilities face high costs for upgrading security, replacing aging infrastructure and adopting advanced treatment methods. Covering exploitation, transport, distribution, meter operation, and customer information systems (CIS), SAP offers incrementally deployable applications designed to meet water utilities' resource and industry requirements. Transmission and distribution utilities must upgrade their networks and technologies continually to secure energy supply while optimizing asset reliability and operational costs. SAP offers the applications these companies need to enhance asset and workforce utilization, and create, automate and manage new collaborative services in line with deregulation processes and unbundling requirements. Retail and services utilities are driven by the need to optimize service delivery costs, manage commodity and risk, improve customer service and provide new differentiated services. SAP helps meet these challenges with integrated applications covering customers' financial management, energy capital management and collaborative services. Key Scenario Groups of SAP for Utilities Asset life-cycle and resource management scenarios enable utilities to manage physical assets over the complete life cycle and across all processes, including investment planning, specification and design, procurement and asset construction, operations and maintenance, and decommissioning and disposal. Supply operation supports all processes for the planning, enhancement, operation and maintenance of utility grids. Functions for device management and the necessary services for the provision and supply of energy are also supported. SAP applications can be integrated with external systems such as geographic information systems (GIS), outage management systems, construction planning or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Meter reading services support all processes including the scheduling, data entry, plausibility checks and comprehensive monitoring. Interfaces to various external systems for meter reading entry are available. Energy capital management enables collection and management of energy-relevant data in a central energy data repository and integrates energy data to all related scenarios, such as energy forecasting, portfolio management and energy trading. Energy Sales and Services supports all sales-oriented business processes. including call center operations with industry-specific sales processes, campaign management, opportunity, account and contact management for residential as well as for commercial and industrial customers. Customer Service Management supports all services-oriented business processes specific to the utilities industry, such as service order management, complaints management, account and contact management. Also supported through call center. Customer financial management and billing services handles billing for all kinds of supply categories, price models and services worldwide. New requirements driven by deregulation such as cross-company invoicing are already integrated. Through SAPs open architecture, utilities can link external billing systems and create new revenue sources by offering third-party billing services. Collaborative services and intercompany data exchange supports supplier switch, payment processing and network reconciliation and settlement processes. SAPs integrated solution set enables efficient, consistent and flexible management of data exchange processes with other market participants within an environment of changing standards and deregulation. Enterprise management and support enables advanced management techniques and enhances financial and human capital management. SAP solutions integrate all financial and business performance data with management processes for effective, strategic decision making and support workforce deployment. Technology of SAP for Utilities Powered by SAP NetWeaver, SAP for Utilities leverages an open and scalable technology platform that enables companies to more easily adapt business processes to changing local market rules, regulatory and environmental requirements. The platform's capabilities address key industry demands, helping utilities companies:
Improve enterprise asset management by integrating maintenance operations with information from external outage management, geographic information systems, work scheduling, plant information and SCADA systems, as well as developing reliability centered maintenance strategies Build and execute collaborative services to better handle deregulation processes such as supplier switch and transactional data exchanges Increase effectiveness of field personnel with mobile technologies for 24/7/365 access to critical business and customer information Continuously improve business processes via monitoring, managing, and analyzing business processes online or in batch Additional information about SAP for Utilities can be found at: http://www.sap.com/utilities/
2. SAP Utilities News & Updates
1. December 21, 2006
BearingPoint Completes SAP Utilities Projects for Brazilian Energy Co.
BearingPoint Inc., a large management and technology consulting firm has completed a large-scale SAP (News - Alert) application-based implementation for Light, a Brazilian energy company. Full TMCNet News report here
3. SAP Utilities Case Studies, SAP Utilities Implementations
Flexibility and Reliability Utility companies choose SAP because it helps optimize their systems to keep pace with the industry’s rapid and unrelenting change. SAP offers an enterprise-wide solution for all players in the utility value chain: generators, transmission/distribution companies, meter operators, suppliers.
The SAP solution for utilities is fully integrated with standard SAP for generic processes such as finance, logistics, and HR. The utility-specific solution includes three areas: enterprise asset management, billing and CRM, and energy capital management.
Capgemini and SAP SAP is one of the world’s largest package vendors for energy and utility companies, with 40% market share on a global level, and we employ more than 1,500 consultants in the SAP Utilities area.
We have successfully completed more than 100 SAP for Utilities projects in 15 different countries combining global and local experience. At the invitation of SAP AG, we have contributed to the development of SAP CRM for Utilities, Intercompany Data Exchange, and Asset Management, and we meet regularly with SAP AG to share market vision and discuss feedback from our client projects.
Comprehensive Offerings Our offerings include:
SAP CRM & IS-U projects Energy data management (EDM) / intercompany data exchange (IDE) Risk-based asset management Mobile asset management for utilities Water template Portfolio management Netweaver Corporate performance management Billing ASP offering Application maintenance offshore A Better Delivery Model We combine local capabilities with support of our Utilities Global Center of Expertise network:
Seven Centers of Expertise (Canada, Holland, Germany, the Nordic countries, Spain, France and India) and a network of 375+ dedicated consultants on a global basis Dedicated methodologies: UPM+ (Utility Process Model +), mySAP Utilities showcase, Utilities Solution Knowledge Base Unique combination of infrastructures: Montreal Delivery Center (Canada), training center & ADC in Utrecht (Holland), off-shore capabilities in Mumbai (India) Market vision and thought leadership: ASP offerings, industry templates, points of view, and strong cooperation with the SAP Utilities industry business unit.
4. SAP Utilities Job Resources – SAP Utilities Job Profiles / Requirements
5. SAP Utilities Resume Essentials
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