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White Star Petroleum
Producing Real Returns
from S/4
June 5-7, 2018
Orange Country Convention Center |
Orlando, Florida
Ricky Pollot
Chief Accounting Officer
White Star Petroleum
Hugh Forque
Vice President &
North America Energy Leader
Capgemini

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What We’ll Cover:
 White Star Overview
 Why SAP?
 Project Timeline
 Scope
 Keys to Implementation Success
 Value Realization
 Questions

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White Star Petroleum Overview
 Upstream oil and gas company headquartered in
Oklahoma City
 Employ approximately 190 people
 Private equity backed
 Interests in approximately 1,000 wells;
650 operated
 Operations entirely onshore U.S.
 First U.S. oil and gas company to go
live on S/4HANA 1610
 Successfully implemented on time and on
budget in 4 ½ months using Capgemini’s
READYUpstream template

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Why SAP?
Due to planned growth and transition to a public company, we
initiated a review of our legacy ERP solution, as well as options
available in the market place
Main factors considered:
 IPO Readiness
 Risk Reduction
 Technology Maturity
 Peer Landscape
 Cost of Ownership
SAP’s S/4HANA ranked favorably to our
legacy system in nearly all factors evaluated

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Project Timeline
Data
Assessment
March April May June July August September October
Data Migration (ETL)
Data Project Kickoff
Project
Prep
READYUpstream Project Kickoff
Blueprint
Realization
System Validation
Final Prep
System Validation
Go-live & On-Site Post
Go-Live SupportConversions
Testing
Training
“Go-Live”

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1Scope Production Management:
 Maintenance of Production Master
 Production Volume Allocations
 Regulatory Reporting
Capgemini’s S/4
Template for
Upstream
Adopted and
deployed at 15
E&P Companies
2
3
4
5
Revenue Accounting
 Revenue Valuation
 Owner Disbursements
 Ownership
 Contracts
 Revenue Cash Receipts
 Tax & Royalty Reporting
Financial Accounting
 General Ledger
 Accounts Payable & Receivable
 Asset Accounting
Cost Accounting and
Reporting
 Cost Centers
 Projects/AFEs
 Cost Allocations
 Lease Operating Costs
Joint Venture Accounting
 Joint Operating Agreements
 Joint Interest Billing
 Overhead Calculation

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Keys to Implementation Success
White Star successfully went live on S/4 in
September 2017 on time and on budget
 Formation of Executive Committee consisting of White
Star, Capgemini and SAP leadership meeting regularly
to discuss project status, remaining milestones, issues
and risks, and next steps to success
 Engaging Capgemini to perform the Extract-Transform-
Load (ETL)
 Adhering to Capgemini’s READYUpstream template
approach with alterations only when a compelling
business advantage could be demonstrated
 Maintaining sufficient post go-live support to ensure
successful transition
 Design and configuration of the account and cost center
structure with focus on ability to generate desired
reporting and analytics

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Preliminary Benefits of S/4
Access to Tier 1 software functionality and scalability
at reasonable cost
 Consistency of READYUpstream template configuration
with existing business process
 No significant changes in existing business process
necessary
 Implemented “out of the box”; no customizations
necessary
Stability of software
 Software simply works; consistent results
 No in-house IT support; 100% outsourced functional and
technical support
Simplified data model and embedded analytics
 Universal journal dramatically reduces number of tables
and simplifies data extraction
 Predefined CDS views enhance ability of end users to
extract data without IT assistance

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Tangible Returns - 9 months Later
Monthly Financial Reporting
Package – enhanced monthly
financial reporting built using
Analysis for Office and pre-
defined CDS views embedded
in S/4
Visibility
Lease Operating Statement –
“click of button” insight into the
profitability of our wells with drill
down capability to invoice images
Integration
Authorization for Expenditure
(AFE) Report – combined AFE
amounts, field estimates and
actuals on a single report via
integration with 3rd party
applications also with drill down
capability to invoice images
Agility

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Connect with us
Ricky Pollot
ricky.pollot@wstr.com
+1 (405) 252-5809
Hugh Forque
Hugh.forque@capgemini.com
+1 (713) 298-5383

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