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Technip Case Study www.allocatesoftware.com The Challenge With over 50 years of experience, Technip is a world leader in offshore engineering and construction projects, with world-class know how and expertise across five continents. Specializing within the energy industry, Technip employs over 30,000 personnel and has a fleet of vessels that work in the most challenging environments installing pipelines and involved in subsea construction. Technip’s Offshore Business Group is tasked with ensuring highly qualified and skilled engineering personnel are planned effectively and efficiently across a number of complex projects. Most of the planning carried out by the Offshore Business Group involved the use of manual data entry into spreadsheets. The team was challenged with maintaining a multitude of spreadsheets for both planning and reporting purposes. The demand for greater management information coupled with a need to accurately plan and bid for future projects, resulted in a number of time consuming, repetitive manual processes. To enable future growth without significantly increasing the size of the Offshore Business Group, Technip decided to investigate software solutions that could meet their needs. While the main aim was to find enterprise grade software that could manage the level of resources and planning required, it was also critical to find a toolset that could be setup quickly and be easy to use. The solution needed to grow with the business and provide mechanisms for projecting future resource needs based on prospective projects and bids. Existing ERP solutions were considered too generalized and costly to customize. Alternatively, building an in house solution would not have been an efficient use of time and money, and would have taken significantly longer to achieve the desired benefits. Background “Our ability to plan for future projects and anticipate our resource requirements has been significantly enhanced by OffshoreSuite. Not only can I see my allocation of personnel by project or customer, I can also predict the total utilization required for future phases and mitigate any resource constraints before they impact our projects or our ability to bid for future work.” Monica Perez, Manager of Offshore Project Engineering Resources for Technip’s OffshoreSuite Technip Case Study Allocate OffshoreSuite
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The Challenge
With over 50 years of experience, Technip is a world leader in offshore engineering and construction projects, with world-class know how and expertise across five continents. Specializing within the energy industry, Technip employs over 30,000 personnel and has a fleet of vessels that work in the most challenging environments installing pipelines and involved in subsea construction.
Technip’s Offshore Business Group is tasked with ensuring highly qualified and skilled engineering personnel are planned effectively and efficiently across a number of complex projects.
Most of the planning carried out by the Offshore Business Group involved the use of manual data entry into spreadsheets. The team was challenged with maintaining a multitude of spreadsheets for both planning and reporting purposes. The demand for greater management information coupled with a need to accurately plan and bid for future projects, resulted in a number of time consuming, repetitive manual processes.
To enable future growth without significantly increasing the size of the Offshore Business Group, Technip decided to investigate software solutions that could meet their needs. While the main aim was to find enterprise grade software that could manage the level of resources and planning required, it was also critical to find a toolset that could be setup quickly and be easy to use. The solution needed to grow with the business and provide mechanisms for projecting future resource needs based on prospective projects and bids. Existing ERP solutions were considered too generalized and costly to customize. Alternatively, building an in house solution would not have been an efficient use of time and money, and would have taken significantly longer to achieve the desired benefits.
Background
“Our ability to plan for future projects and anticipate our resource requirements has been significantly enhanced by OffshoreSuite. Not only can I see my allocation of personnel by project or customer, I can also predict the total utilization required for future phases and mitigate any resource constraints before they impact our projects or our ability to bid for future work.”
Monica Perez, Manager of Offshore Project Engineering Resources for Technip’s OffshoreSuite
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Technip are now recognizing the following benefits of investing in OffshoreSuite and its implementation:
• Single source of planning information
• Easier setup of projects based on existing projects or templates
• Earlier identification of issues using Troubleshooting tools • Look ahead planning tools and reporting capabilities • Reduction in the number and proliferation of spreadsheets • Quicker production of management reports
• Effective use of planning team to manage current project requirements
• Look ahead of future resource constraints • The ability to carry out ‘what if’ analysis for future bids
• Specialist tools for managing engineering projects by resource utilization
• Easier access to planning information
The Benefits
For more information about Allocate OffshoreSuite, please contact your Allocate Account Manager or visit: www.allocatesoftware.com/offshoresuite Phone +44 (0)20 7355 5555 or Email [email protected]
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Monica Perez, Manager of Offshore Project Engineering Resources for Technip’s OffshoreSuite team sums up how OffshoreSuite will benefit Technip going forward: “Now we have the system in place, we can look at improving our long range view of our resource requirements and provide our business development team with improved accuracy regarding our ability to take on engineering projects while utilizing our available workforce more effectively”.
Looking Ahead
After an extensive search, Technip selected Allocate Software’s OffshoreSuite. The main considerations for the Offshore Business Group included:
• Experienced consultancy team and implementation approach
• Easy to use tools for managing engineering projects by resource utilization
• Specialist focus on offshore engineering scenarios • Low cost of implementation and ownership • Tried and tested enterprise solution used by a number of
Offshore Engineering companies
The Solution
“Our partnership with Technip demonstrates Allocate Software’s capacity to provide innovative, effective and intuitive solutions to the Offshore Construction and Subsea Engineering industry, providing the efficient planning and management of offshore personnel.”
Crispin Jessop, Allocate Software Maritime & Offshore Manager
