October 16-17 · 2016-08-31 · of 443,000 bpd • Produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and ......
Transcript of October 16-17 · 2016-08-31 · of 443,000 bpd • Produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and ......
October 16-17
Blake Abbott HollyFrontier Corporation
Using SharePoint and Winshuttle to Effectively Manage the Master Data Process in SAP
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Agenda
• Who We Are – Company Profile
– Master Data Statistics
– Merger Issues
• Where We’ve Been – E-mail and Excel
– SharePoint
– Winshuttle Integration
• Where We Are Now
• Where We Are Going
• Questions
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Company Profile
HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE: HFC)
• Independent refining and marketing company founded in 1947 and headquartered in Dallas, TX
• Own and operate five complex refineries with a total crude oil processing capacity of 443,000 bpd
• Produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and specialty products
• Operate in Mid-Continent, Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions
• Own 40% interest in Holly Energy Partners and 75% in UNEV Pipeline
• Ranked 170 on the Fortune 500
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Master Data Statistics
Process 60,000+ Truck and Railcar movements each month
• 300 Profit Centers
• 1,100 Cost Centers
• 5,800 Materials
• 300 Plants and Terminals
• 21,000 Vendors
• 12,000 Customers
• 3,500 Contracts
Data Integrity Group (DIG) has to maintain 66 tables and transactions in order to process all types of BOLs
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Timeline • 2009 – Purchased Winshuttle
– Used Transaction and Query
• July 2011 – Holly and Frontier merger – Doubled volume of transactional activity
– Used Winshuttle for 90% of Master Data load
– Custom Excel based tool using Transaction
– Loaded Customers, Vendors, Materials, Contracts, etc
– All completed within two months
• December 2011 – SharePoint based System
• March 2012 – DealPoint 1.0
• September 2012 – DealPoint 2.0 – Winshuttle Transaction and Query
– Microsoft InfoPath Forms
– Processes defined in Winshuttle Designer
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Where We’ve Been
Up To 2009 2009 – Early 2011 Q4 2011 - Q3 2012
► Tried to implement Adobe Smart Form
► Upload data to SAP via PDFs ► Complicated for users ► Project ultimately failed
► DealPoint 1.0 ► SharePoint based system ► Defined processes ► Pushed initial deal entry
directly to Marketing Reps Create system buy-in Eliminate errors up
front
►E-mail based with forms and documents attached
►Inefficient and error prone ►Multiple entry of same
information ►Unable to report metrics or
turn around time ►Evident there was no process
Visibility Timing Priority Tracking
Driving Efficiencies for Master Data Process
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E-Mail Forms
• Deal Capture starts with e-mail from marketer
• Different forms used by different marketers
• Contract Admin then populates their own deal capture form
• E-mail sole source for tracking status
• Includes crude contract deal sheet
• Crude group creates DIG service request as needed
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InfoPath Forms
• Started with DIG Service Requests
• SharePoint based Help Desk
• Built views and defined processes
• Basic workflow based on criteria in SharePoint forms
• Deal Capture form in InfoPath
• Other Forms still in Excel
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Where We Are Now • Full Winshuttle utilization
• Integrated additional forms to augment Deal Capture – Bulk Crude Purchase
– AR Billing Inquiry
– Master Data Creation (Vendors, Customers, Plants)
• Efficient Processes with Visibility and Tracking
• Significantly decreased BOL Processing Error Rate
60,000 BOLs 800 DealPoint Tickets 2,500 Errors
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Winshuttle Transaction
• Record transactions that were previously manually entered in SAP
• Map to Access, Excel, or XML
• Run from Desktop or publish as Web Services
• Incorporate multiple screens, tables, and views
Automate complex SAP processes into one button click
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Winshuttle Designer
• Create and enforce business processes without programming
• Role-based workflows and web form
• Track who did what and what forms they used to do it
• Get visibility and buy-in to all types of SAP functions
Allows non-technical users to create forms-driven processes on top of SAP deployment
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InfoPath Forms • Can be accessed by any user with Internet access
• Drag and drop visual layout and creation tool
• Drive consistent and efficient data at FIRST point of entry
• Significant customization possible with rules and formatting
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Where We Are Going • Drive Sales and Deal information directly to Marketing Reps
• Provide visibility of process and reports to Upper Management
• Continue to decrease BOL Error Rates
• Incorporate Additional Business Units – Asphalt, Lubes
• Roll out to other Internal Company Units – HR
– Refinery Processes
– AFE Process for Capital Expenditures
“To own the business side of SAP and related systems and further the integration of SAP
in the enterprise process model for HollyFrontier.”