Clean Core and Next Generation Operating powering the future at ConocoPhillips
What is best practice in Clean Core (Private Cloud)
Published in 2024/25
Why did they do? Why did they do it?
Client Synopsis
What did they do?
• ConocoPhillips selected SAP S/4 Rise in a competitive RFP in September of 2021. In March of 2022 we kick off the nxtGenERP Greenfield S/4 Rise. Conoco Is now live on S/4 Rise for Canada, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Libya, Qatar and Australia. This totals approximately 4K users, or 40% of the business. We go live July 1, 2024 for Norway and the North Sea and the USA will go live on Jan. 1, 2025. • COP’s nxtgenERP program represents one of the best “clean core” stories. COP had 7 million lines of custom code in their SAP ECC systems. The team has brought that down to just over 100 total modifications, and over half are reports. This greatly increases COP’s agility and reduces their total cost of ownership. We expect some additional modifications as we complete the roll out for Norway and US. The core template is set, but some localization may be required. They have leveraged BTP heavily, COP has heavy Fiori, all major integration and substantial ABAP (side by Side development), as well as MDG for all master data in BTP. • ConocoPhillips upgraded their live S/4 Rise environment from 1909 to 2022, during a project with a very small team! We completed the full upgrade in less than 5 months, including N+3 paths.(12 separate S/4 instances). In the past it would take a year to upgrade their ECC system, with no projects allowed during the upgrade process. This is agility.
• COP wanted to move to the cloud to enable more agility and lower cost.
• ConocoPhillips is the largest Upstream Oil and Gas company in the world. They run Approximate $70 Billion of revenue a year on SAP. • They are a major oil and gas exploration and production company.
3 things that helped drive the strategy
Industry
• COP is the very lowest cost producer of O&G in the world. They are hyper focused on costs. SAP provided the lowest cost and highest quality solution. • Relationships – ConocoPhillips has been a customer of SAP for over 25 years. For some time the relationship was not working. The account team doubled down on building relationship with in COP. The selection committee said this made the difference. • Implementation Mindset – The implementation Team adopted Patrick Lencioni’s “Who’s Team No. 1? Mindset”. This was adopted by COP, PwC and SAP. What’s best for the company? This has made the implementation very smooth and effective.
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Energy
How SAP solved a problem for the customer?
Region
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NA, US South
• SAP is the only company that can run a very large and complex O&G company. Our differentiating application include Production Revenue account, Joint Venture Accounting and Field Logistics.
MP Name
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Rick Costello, Kurt Malone
The team involved: ( roles / names) • Ryan Fishman/ GSI negotiated the deal, Rick Costello / VP SW and MP, developed the relationships that won the deal, Allen Horne/Delivery Executive, leading implementation for SAP, Peter Maier / Industry, Juergen Eisele / S/4 development (development Angle) Klaus Borkenstein / development
Links to relevant documents • TBD
Reference: Y/N • They are not officially in the reference program and they can not be used in any press releases. They do more than 10 reference calls per month and are very happy to share the story. Please reach out to the MP for help scheduling. We have references from the CFO, SVP Technology or Director of IT for more technical discussions. We will work with you to match your audience to the right people in COP.
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