ProjecTools Update – Welcome to 15.0

ProjecTools Update – Welcome 15.0

You’ve asked and we delivered. A common comment was that the size of the test and content in ProjecTools Application Portal was too small, making the portal part of the application difficult to read and use.

Fortunately, we buckled down and fixed the problem. The portal window now fills the screen of any workstation capable of displaying the portal. This means that there is more space for you to enjoy the new screen resolutions. That brings us to the new screen resolution settings, which essentially allows the portal to display larger font sizes, buttons, screens, menus, etc.

See the differences for yourself below.

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Masterful Procurement and Supplier Management for Engineering and Construction Projects

Masterful procurement and supplier management leads to consistent, complete requisitions, fewer mistakes, and superior sharing of information.

Masterful Procurement and Supplier Management for Engineering and Construction Projects

What is masterful procurement and supplier management? There are many aspects to procurement and supplier management that make a master including:

  • Centralizing data
  • Standardizing processes
  • Integrating well with other teams (engineering, quality, construction, clients, etc.)
  • Corralling communication

Today, we’re going to talk about, you guessed it, how to establish a masterful procurement and supplier management operation at your Oil & Gas, EPC, or capital construction company. To get started, we’ll talk a little bit about some of the problems that we facing in the procurement and supplier management arena, and then we’re going to talk about what you need to do to solve those problems.

Starting with the problems. A major problem is that procurement can be a huge profit center, but oftentimes, it’s not the big moneymaker that you think it’s going to be. Why? Because it is mismanaged. We hear constant frustration from buyers that feel they are wasting time building requisitions. It isn’t because they are bad buyers, it is because they have a hard time gathering the engineering information that’s needed and navigating the procurement cycle without defined and standardized processes to follow. These buyers don’t have standardized numbering systems, standardized templates, or standardized workflows for the different procurement categories. Then there’s no formal approval workflow to make sure that a requisition is approved for issue. After these buyers struggle through that process they are handicapped even further when there is no infrastructure for issuing and collecting bids from suppliers. Each of these problems can impact your schedule, they can impact your budget, and, at the end of the day, they’re going to impact quality.

Another huge problem that’s preventing procurement from being the moneymaker that it can be, is suppliers give us the runaround. Your suppliers are wily, they want to work you, and if you don’t have the processes in place to keep them on the straight and narrow, they’re going to kick you around to force change orders and buy more time at your expense.

We also see that buyers struggle with working from outdated information. They build requisitions and commercial information around technical information, documents, and TAGs. What happens if the commercial team doesn’t have the latest version of the documents to pass along to the suppliers, or they’re using superseded TAG data? The buyers end up passing incorrect or superseded information onto suppliers. This is a massive problem since procurement exists in a sense to improve specificity and mitigate risk. The result is that suppliers don’t even know what to build so of course the bids aren’t going to be accurate. That’s just a huge problem in itself, and can really affect quality and a desired outcome down the line, and if you don’t get these things right the first time, you’re looking at delays, which cost money. You’re looking at the rework, which also costs money, and change orders in the supplier’s favor.

A corollary problem within this mess is that most systems employed by procurement groups to manage these processes force buyers, clients, engineers, quality, and suppliers to communicate via email. Not many systems get all the feedback and corral correspondence, or even get standardized bids back into one system. So conversations become fragmented or hijacked by the squeakiest wheel. Similarly, if quality or schedule slips, it may be impossible to determine where the process went wrong. You end up being left in the dark with big bills to pay. It’s very difficult to find a system that will track all the supplier participation, make it reportable, centralize everything into one application, add workflows to it, add approval processes, and make these processes adapt to whatever you’re buying. That is a tall order, but there are a couple systems out there that can make it happen.

The ideal way to solve these problems is to find a system that will manage these processes for you. The ideal system has an equipment register for each project that links tags, links documents with requisitions, provides a logical workflows, approval structures, and all the things that you need to masterfully build, these requisition, and send them out to bid, and evaluate them, and then set them on to your purchase order that’s going to get executed flawlessly by your suppliers and subs.

One aspect that can’t go overlooked is finding a system that allows your suppliers and subs to log in to the system and participate. Look for systems that get suppliers more involved than emailing back and forth. The more involvement the better and the more the suppliers contribute within your system, the more value you will get from their capabilities and expertise.

The next super important thing is the accountability and visibility. At the end of the day your procurement team needs to get things get done and reach milestones in a timely manner. You need a system that can holds each stakeholder’s feet to the fire. It’s for the good of the project. The last thing you want is a team standing in a circle all pointing fingers at each other because that accomplishes nothing of value.

To recap, you should have a masterful procurement and supplier management operation that links all your data together coherently, applies enforced workflows, manages approval structures, gets suppliers and subs working as part of a team with great interface tools for the suppliers and added workflows in there so they work with you coherently, and maintains accountability and visibility throughout that process.

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Lets Define Procurement

Let’s Define Procurement

Define Procurement

A quick google search defines procurement.Define Procurement Image

While obvious, this procurement definition is lame. It would get our consultants laughed at if they were to put this on a slide in a meeting. I suppose that’s ok if its display was intended as a joke. But let’s be honest – while military procurement may a joke, no one’s laughing

In the project world that ProjecTools lives in, procurement is the indispensable, months or years long struggle to obtain equipment, supplies, and services as designed and approved; and to deliver those efficiently, and in a state to operate safely, to the client on time and on budget. That’s how we define procurement at ProjecTools. The definition isn’t catchy. It isn’t academic – or complicated. It’s just a quick and dirty way to define procurement as we live it.

For folks in engineering, EPC, or construction, this definition of procurement will ring true. Everybody understands and shakes their head knowingly when we rattle off our definition. While the knowing nods say a lot, it goes unsaid that each group or player in our definition of procurement probably executes it differently. These different processes define procurement for any individual company. The strengths and weaknesses, and wide variations in the execution of the procurement processes keep ProjecTools inspired and happily engaged in the procurement business.

If our definition of procurement rings true for your business, it is worth thinking about the components that are at work in it. To help you flesh out your company’s definition of procurement we will start with the procurement definition and examine its parts.

Let’s start with Procurement is indispensable. At ProjecTools, we are selective in our role model choices. We love Stephen R Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People). A key Covey principle of Covey is “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”. Simple, but certain. Procurement is a main thing made up of many upstream main-thing components and downstream main-thing components that must be treated as the main thing for each owner of each component at each critical time. Without procurement, products would never proceed past the idea or engineering phase. Without raw materials, assembly machines, tools, computers, internet, steel, paint, buildings, software, engineering paper, etc. no EPC company (or any company) would ship a single product. And you no-doubt expect each step in your supply chain to treat your order with the respect and care due the main thing.

At a less philosophical level, the procurement definition checks out, too. EPC projects are Engineering, Procurement, and Construction by definition. Without procurement you have engineering – which is ok actually. In fact most EPC companies start out as Engineering companies and grow into EPC companies, adding procurement and construction sometime later. They are driven to vertically integrate downstream processes into the business model because EPCs get the biggest contracts, the most control over the execution of the project, and the glory and recognition at the end of the project. Since success begets success, the EPC continues momentum winning more projects as their resume grows.

 

The next component as we define procurement is a months or years long struggle. This timeline is literal, especially in the EPC industry’s definition of procurement. Building a bridge, power plant, skyscraper, or offshore production asset can take years. These are millions or billions of dollar projects that take time, thought, and often global teams to produce. The struggle is real too. In a high stakes EPC project, there are often hundreds or thousands of people involved. Engineers, managers, schedulers, cost controllers, HSE teams, commercial teams, quality surveillance teams, logistics teams, document controllers, auditors, regulators, construction teams, inspection/completions teams, partners, consultants, and clients are trying to coordinate and measure progress and performance for years on end. Unfortunately the makeup of a project team evolves over the life of the project. People come, people go. Market conditions change over the life of the project. Copper prices climb, oil prices plummet. Requirements change over the life of the project. 4 elevator banks changes to 6.

The struggle isn’t dealing with these changes or keeping the good people that work these projects on task. The struggle is coordinating these groups, balancing their competing priorities and directives for years at a time while managing the changes and typical factors that derail a project. Understanding and responding to the duration and struggles in the EPC procurement definition is absolutely paramount to profitable procurement execution. In fact, the companies that demonstrate understanding and mastery of this struggle tend to deliver higher quality and meet client expectations more reliably, which leads to more repeat procurement business, more independence, and bigger contracts.

The third part of the procurement definition is to obtain the equipment, supplies, and services. This may seem like the most obvious part of the procurement definition. While obvious, this is not always a simple feat. Obtaining equipment, supplies and services sometimes requires substantial expenditure which opens companies up to substantial risk. Good procurement departments understand this and actively work to mitigate procurement risk. This means working with engineering to produce the most complete and specific technical definition for equipment, working with suppliers to ensure competency, working to provide the most specific commercial terms, and working actively with other groups (suppliers, logistics, quality surveillance, construction, scheduling, cost controllers) to eliminate unknowns.

Along with developing specifications and eliminating unknowns, Procurement for EPC has a duty to ensure these teams work together effectively. This means each group needs access to the latest information and appropriate communication media. This may seem like a simple task. In fact most procurement departments figure that if somebody needs information or has questions – they will simply ask. By overlooking strategies to improve collaboration among the contributing groups, the procurement process struggles to centralize documents, process approvals, gather bids, and issue POs in a timely manner. This struggle in most cases is not because any one team or player is incompetent, rather teams spend too much time chasing paper which extends the process.

The next part of the procurement definition is to deliver safely functioning products. This may seem like a no-brainer as well, however there are a few meanings hidden in this part of the procurement definition. The first is to deliver products that function. Fair enough. The second is to deliver a product that functions safely. The third is to deliver a product safely – unharmed from transport, packaging, and receiving.

To deliver functioning products, procurement teams must rely on engineers to design quality products and the suppliers to build those quality products. Obviously, engineering documents must be reviewed by internal teams, suppliers, and clients. Consensus on proper and specific design is key. There should be little room for improvisation on the supplier side and confidence in the design on the client side. While not every procurement department will manage the process of gaining consensus, they should be assured of it. Further, procurement departments should be involved in the quality surveillance plan. The quality surveillance plan should be cost effective, thorough, and execution should be documented religiously. Proper quality surveillance inspections will ensure the equipment is built to spec and on schedule.

To deliver products that function safely, procurement teams should be aware of the HSE implications of the product. The HSE concerns should be incorporated into the quality surveillance plan. In the current economic environment that values social responsibility and is quick to litigate, there is no tolerance for unnecessary workplace hazards. This is true for the fabrication, transportation, installation, and operation of all requisitions. In other words, safety is everybody’s responsibility, even the procurement department’s.

Few situations are more demoralizing than brand new equipment arriving late, to the wrong jobsite, or damaged during transport. To deliver products safely, Procurement departments enlist logistics specialists. Logistics specialists should be tightly integrated with procurement teams. This means logistics teams should have access to relevant PO data and a controlled media to interface with the upstream technical and commercial teams (ie. Engineering and Procurement).

Finally, to deliver products safely in a timely manner, which is the final component of the Procurement Definition, logistics teams should be able to interface with suppliers (obviously), receiving, and construction teams. Communication channels with these teams should be readily accessible, recorded to each PO, and under no circumstance rely on ad-hoc emails. Logistics teams relying on emails can be dangerously inefficient and ineffective at achieving their goals. It is worth mentioning that these shortfalls are not because of incompetence, rather, shortfalls of emails as a communication medium.

Keep these principles in mind as you define procurement for your industry or company. Defining procurement for you is as simple as taking a step back from the day to day processes and strategies to look at the overall objective. Through exploring our definition of procurement for the EPC and capital construction industries, I not only have an escalated appreciation for the complexity of procurement and the value it brings, but the procurement professionals that continue to elevate the profession.

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Security and Reliability

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Document Management Software ROI

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Document Management Software ROI

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ProjecTools Software Support

ProjecTools Software Support

Quality support can be a life saver. We get that, so e have a talented staff of support professionals that are ready to respond to client requests 24/7. It doesn’t matter if users email, call, text, or skype – the ProjecTools Support Team is ready to respond and solve in a timely fashion.

Email support@projectools.com to get in touch with a ProjecTools Software Support.

ProjecTools Software Support Team gives world-class technical assistance and personalized guidance to help you quickly resolve issues, optimize the effectiveness of your project management teams and tools, and maximize business impact. With a staff of highly skilled and dedicated support professionals, ProjecTools is dedicated to your satisfaction and helping you achieve the highest levels of efficiency and the pinnacle of success.

ProjecTools Partners with Project Baseline, an India-based EPC Project Service Firm

ProjecTools offers the most comprehensive project management software on the market built by and for project management professionals in the Oil & Gas industry. ProjecTools Marketing Manager, Eric Morey, adds, “Project Baseline impressed me out of the gate with their large scale Oil & Gas and EPC project experience. This partnership will provide the Indian Oil & Gas and EPC industry with better access to ProjecTools application.”

ProjecTools, Announces Agreement with India-Based EPC Project Service Firm, Project Baseline

Bellville, TX – ProjecTools announced today a partner agreement with Project Baseline, Mumbai India based project management training and consulting provider.

ProjecTools offers the most comprehensive project management software on the market built by and for project management professionals in the Oil & Gas industry. ProjecTools Marketing Manager, Eric Morey, adds, “Project Baseline impressed me out of the gate with their large scale Oil & Gas and EPC project experience. This partnership will provide the Indian Oil & Gas and EPC industry with better access to ProjecTools application.”

Project Baseline is a company that serves the Oil & Gas, EPC, and Capital Construction markets in India and Asia Pacific. They specialize in Project Planning & Control, project management staffing, auditing, and training. The director of Project Baseline Consultants, H.M. Panchal, PMP, says about the partnership “I am very excited to partner with a leading cloud project management application like ProjecTools. The partnership will expand access to ProjecTools thereby improving the success of Capital Projects in India.”

Project Baseline Consultants stands out by implementing processes and information systems with a strong focus on planning, scheduling, and cost management.

The Project Baseline project managers are certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs) and have decades of experience including support of domestic and international work assignments. They support resource requirements for all types of project staff and work with customers to set up Project Management Offices and their responsibilities and initiatives, including processes to measure and report progress, conduct status meetings, manage change, mitigate risks, develop reporting standards, and improve collaboration among project participants.

Another strength of The Project Baseline team is Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling services to customers that require submittal of schedules, baselines, and updates per project specifications for either project tendering, planning or monitoring. Their CPM scheduling capabilities include resource and cost loading, critical item reports, crashing of the schedule, Interactive Planning Sessions with various stakeholders.

Process Involved:

Determine the user requirements

Define Enterprise Data

Define Project Scope

Define Deliverables as Work Break Down Structure (WBS)

Define Task under WBS

Define Major Milestones

Define Long Lead Items

Define Progress measuring system

Define Activity Codes

Define the reporting system

Define the Project Access

Define Relationships with the Activities and Complete the Network Diagram.

Establish the Cycle Time

Define the Resource Pool

Assign resources to tasks

Forecast resource time and cost estimates

Crash the Schedule to meet the Project Deadline.

Baseline Sign-Off from Sponsors

Pool team updates and create status reports

Produce final project reports

Highlight Issues

Risk analysis and management

Coordination and integration of role players and site activities

Preparation of Standard Operating Procedure

1 +91-9821400226 www.projectbaseline.in

Contact Hasmukh Panchal at contact@projectbaseline.in for more information.

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Standard Project Management Features

September 2nd, 2015|0 Comments

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  • 545

Security and Reliability

September 1st, 2015|0 Comments

Users need a secure, reliable environment to access project information and perform work. All applications and client data resides in a private cloud network with data replication and failover to geographically diverse datacenter equipment. ProjecTools provides 99.5% Network Availability

  • 492

Construction Project Management Services

August 31st, 2015|0 Comments

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ProjecTools Resources

  • 1872

Spreadsheets and Email as Project Management Tools

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Projects have too many moving parts and too many players to be trusting critical data to spreadsheets and emails. You need a spreadsheet reduction strategy.

  • 1811

Project Management Assessment

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  • 1716
  • Review & Approvals

Document Management Software ROI

October 5th, 2016|0 Comments

Document management is massively important for engineering and construction projects. Take the approach and use the tools that add the most value.

  • 1357

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Align Document Control with Cost Control and create seamless progress and earned value reports to stay on budget and improve cash flows.

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Document Management Software ROI

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  • 1631

Document Distribution and Access for EPC and Construction

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New offshore construction client – FloaTEC

FloaTEC’s industry experience and flexibility in offshore construction make them a leader in TLP (Tension Leg Platforms), Semi-Submersibles, and Spar offshore production assets.

ProjecTools Announces A New Offshore Construction Client – FloaTEC

ProjecTools is proud to announce FloaTEC as the newest ProjecTools client. FloaTEC is a Houston-based joint venture of McDermott and Keppel FELS. The company designs, builds, and delivers deep water floating production systems to the Oil & Gas industry.

FloaTEC FloaTEC’s industry experience and flexibility in offshore construction make them a leader in TLP (Tension Leg Platforms), Semi-Submersibles, and Spar offshore production assets. Additionally, FloaTEC’s access to Keppel FELS and McDermott’s engineering resources and shipyards allow them to produce high quality assets at yards in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, and Asia Pacific.

FloaTEC selected ProjecTools Documents and Cost Control to help manage project information and enhance collaboration among global teams. They also wanted to streamline workforce management and resource tracking. FloaTEC’s decision to implement an industry-specific and proven application like ProjecTools was driven by a commitment to standardize deliverables and improve consistency.

ProjecTools cloud software allows Oil & Gas and Capital Construction companies to manage the engineering and design project lifecycle with offshore construction industry-friendly workflows. Additionally, the online application includes partners, suppliers, and other contractors by providing online tools to efficiently manage and integrate technical and commercial project information. This integration allows ProjecTools users to report on work from multiple companies across offshore construction project disciplines.

Jerry Morgan, ProjecTools CEO, says, “We are very excited to partner with FloaTEC. With their worldwide engineering, shipyard and fabrication capabilities for Floating Production Systems, they are an ideal partner to leverage the value that ProjecTools offers for global EPC and offshore construction projects.”

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Arena Offshore uses ProjecTools to manage Exploration and Production Documents

ProjecTools is proud to add Arena Offshore as the latest ProjecTools client. ProjecTools partnered with Arena Offshore to provide online project management software for Document Management and information management for Arena’s exploration and production documents.

Arena Offshore uses ProjecTools to manage Exploration and Production Documents

ProjecTools is proud to add Arena Offshore as the latest ProjecTools client. ProjecTools partnered with Arena Offshore to provide online project management software for Document Management and information management for Arena’s exploration and production documents.

arena energy logoArena Offshore was established in 2002 and has locations in The Woodlands, TX and Lafayette, LA. Arena Offshore is affiliated with Arena Energy which is located in the Woodlands, TX.

Arena’s expertise is oil production and recovery in mature fields of the Gulf of Mexico. Arena’s streamlined model has allowed them to reduce operational overhead while maintaining appropriate focus on safety and environment.

ProjecTools provides online project management software to the Oil & Gas industry. With a focus on integrating project information and enforcing critical team interaction, ProjecTools is cloud technology leader for Oil & Gas.

Jerry Morgan, ProjecTools CEO says about Arena Offshore, “It’s great to see leaders like Arena Offshore embracing cloud technology to manage oil & gas project information. Their forward-looking team is awesome: exactly the type of company we like to partner with.”

For more information about this release, email ProjecTools Media Contact.

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Murphy Oil Corporation to use ProjecTools on Exploration and Production Projects

Murphy Oil Corporation is using ProjecTools to manage development and construction of Exploration and Production Projects

Bellville, TXProjecTools Inc. is proud to announce Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) as its newest client. The El-Dorado, Arkansas based Murphy Oil Corporation is a global oil exploration and production company with American onshore and global offshore exploration and production. Murphy is a growing worldwide producer of crude oil and natural gas in the United States, Malaysia, the UK, Republic of the Congo, among other places worldwide.

murphy-oil-corp-logoThe Houston-based Murphy Exploration & Production Company will use ProjecTools document management application (ProjecTools Documents) to manage design and technical documents for the development and construction of Murphy’s exploration and production projects.

ProjecTools provides the software infrastructure to manage the engineering and design lifecycle with Oil & Gas-friendly workflows. Additionally, the ProjecTools application provides on-demand, cloud access to all project stakeholders (including partners, suppliers and other contractors).

ProjecTools CEO, Jerry Morgan, says, “Murphy Exploration and Production is a great partner for ProjecTools. It’s great to see Oil & Gas producers embrace cloud technology to manage the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) side of business.” He went on to say, “I’m looking forward to working with their talented teams for years to come and excited to have them push us [ProjecTools] to innovate.”

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  • 492

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