5 clever things BP does to deliver complex SAP projects faster to secure a safer business

BP is one of the world’s leading international oil and gas companies.

The company operates or markets their products in more than 80 countries, providing customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.

About the Customer

As at, or for the year ended, 31 December 2013, BP at a glance, www.bp.com

80 countries of operation

83,900employees

17,800retail sites 3.2m

barrels of oil per day

13.9mtonnes of petrochemicals produced

About the Customer

As at, or for the year ended, 31 December 2013, BP at a glance, www.bp.com

$403.3bneconomic value generated

17exploration wells

14refineries

Refining throughput

1,791,000barrels

17,999mbarrels equivalent proved reserves

About the Customer

Their Challenge

At BP, safety and operational integrity is at the heart of what they do.

Safe, reliable & compliant operations lead to greater efficiency and performance.

In order to

simplify the systems landscape, BP is on a journey to implement an SAP backbone.

Their Challenge

So they need to run a large number of parallel SAP projects across

86 SAP instances, making changes seamlessly, safely, and in a controlled manner on a global scale with minimal downtime.

Their Challenge

How does BP achieve this?

BP’s SAP changes are automatically deployed through a structured and robust change process.

BP doesn’t rely on manual effort to deploy changes, saving money and minimizing risk.

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How does BP achieve this?

The relevant BP people are automatically notified to approve SAP changes at the right time, speeding up the development process, path to production and reducing risk.

How does BP achieve this?

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BP’s SAP changes are automatically sequenced so they are deployed in the right order – guaranteeing accuracy and consistency.

BP is confident that what is deployed is identical to what was tested.

How does BP achieve this?

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BP’s SAP changes are proactively interrogated to identify risks and compliance issues well in advance of testing or production deployment.

How does BP achieve this?

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BP has the ability to back out of SAP changes within minutes if they affect production or even testing.

How does BP achieve this?

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“Minimizing downtime is crucial to BP. With Transport Expresso, we can proactively improve release quality during the development lifecycle. If something should go wrong, we have the insurance policy of being able to quickly back out SAP changes.”Ed Alford, VP Enterprise Systems, BP

The BP success

70%BP has reduced SAP production system outages by over 70% in the last 2 years, allowing its business users to operate reliably with minimum impact on the bottom line.

The BP success

saferfasterTens of thousands of SAP

transports are imported quickly and safely, ensuring major upgrades are smoother, project cutover is faster and both rework and downtime are reduced.

The BP success

audited worflow process

BP has an audited workflow process that enables them to view all changes going through their entire SAP landscapes from a central point.

The BP success

The secret?

BP uses Transport Expresso to manage SAP project releases across 86 different SAP systems worldwide.

The secret?

“In a recent cutover, we deployed 17,000 SAP transports across our entire business landscape in 48 hours. We simply couldn’t have done this without Transport Expresso.

We chose it because it’s more flexible and has the kind of advanced features that enable us to deliver SAP projects safely and at pace.”Ed Alford, VP Enterprise Systems, BP

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