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We are compiling this release on the base of our Houston Oil & Gas prospects andcustomers.Microsoft Great Plains serves the wide spectrum of horizontal markets. Great Plainscould be considered as ERP platform, which you could expand with third party modulesor advance with your own in-house custom functionality. The best approach would bereasonable and balanced combination of existing modules and new custom logic. Inthis small article weÂ'll give some highlights on Microsoft Business Solutions GreatPlains implementation and setup in Oil & Gas industry, especially for companies,specializing in off-shore platform installation and drilling.
 Fixed/Production Assets. Crude oil and gas production is a highly asset intensiveactivity, all the assets: wellheads, drills, offshore platform itself, etc. must beregularly and appropriately maintained. No wonder, that petroleum production is 24x7with minimal downtime for repair, to maximize output produced and to minimize costs. In Microsoft Great Plains you can utilize combination of Fixed Assets module, whereyou depreciate your large assets  such as platform itself plus Great PlainsManufacturing with the emphasis on Capacity Resource Planning. Considering that itis not a real manufacturing, but rather allocation of your production assets andtime  you could use Great Plains Project Accounting just to allocate resources, oreven Great Plains Dexterity customization to serve resources allocation andassignment to the cost centers Logistics. Oil & Gas production is under the strict safety and environmentalstandards and requirements at the company, industry and governmental levels. Theserequirements imply best practices and efficiency in logistics, from procurement ofmaterials to the receipt of those materials at the relevant wellsite - the rightmaterials, right on time, at the right location. In Microsoft Great Plains you useInventory (IV), Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP)modules to automate your Logistics via Barcoding, automated shipping/receiving, etc. You combine these technologies: Great Plains Dexterity, VB/VBA (Barcoding readingand uploading to GP), MS SQL scripting, .Net web publishing. Production Phases. Drilling, Water/Gas preparation for injection, oil processing,cleaning, leaks monitoring  these could be set up as phases in your lightmanufacturing or project accounting module. You will need custom logic to beimplemented in Great Plains Dexterity. Market Size. Estimated number of offshore drilling platforms worldwide is about7,000. Current trend is total expenses reduction, which in turn encouragescompanies management to revise ERP efficiency and cost plus analyze the evolution incomputer technologies.
About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture ofseveral IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single businessentity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, SanDiego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, SanFrancisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believein the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platformintegration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRMsystems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We alsostake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.
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