Technip Case Study

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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.

Technips 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 Technips 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 offshoresuite@allocatesoftware.com

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Monica Perez, Manager of Offshore Project Engineering Resources for Technips 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 Softwares 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 Softwares 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