Title: Workshop led by IHS

Material description enrichment and standardisation in Petrom with IHS SMD

 

• Intro to OMV PETROM E&P and the case for material data enrichment
• Current Issues in materials description and underlying reasons
• IHS classification templates-a standard platform & an “Enabler”
• Material data enrichment project (MDEP) process and methodology
• MDEP change management- purpose, level & impact of the change
• The need for maintaining “good” descriptions

Atif Sheikh Sr Advisor Systems & Procedures Petrom SA

In March 2009, OMV Petrom’s E&P Division embarked on a long-awaited drive to finally look into a messy material database, to commit organization resources for implementation of internationally recognized and adopted solution, and along this painstaking journey, revisit company’s supply chain practices that might have a lot to do with the current mess. MDEP (Material Data Enrichment Project) is one of few examples in E&P Maintenance where the initiative was taken to improve things in supply chain side of the business – starting with veru basics – material descriptions! The project was unique as it was totally managed internally over a complex web of geographical spread, a matrix of Stakeholder interfaces, and an uncompromising altercation of two not-so-compatible languages. Overcoming these hurdles with continuous risk mitigation, the project team is soon set to deliver full scope with stated quality in less than given budget and within allocated time. The fruits will be borne across whole organizational units that use MM materials. EP Maintenance in OMV Petrom is successfully completing this in-house project whereby cleansing a material dataset of more than 60,000 SAP codes, resulting in identification for invalids (duplicates, obsoletes) and description standardization and enrichment for the rest. The proposed presentation would comprise of three Parts, each of which is outlined briefly in the following pages.