As a leading multinational oil and gas company Chevron is dedicated to building reliable, affordable, and ever-cleaner energy in all operations, including with subsidiaries.
However, over time, it became clear that some of its complex legacy systems were not poised to meet the requisite challenges going forward, especially with 麻豆原创鈥檚 support for 麻豆原创 ECC 鈥� an impactful solution in Chevron鈥檚 enterprise resource planning (ERP) portfolio 鈥� coming to an end in 2027. That鈥檚 why Chevron is now teaming up with 麻豆原创 as a customer and co-innovation partner to transform its digital core and position itself for the cloud future.
鈥淥ur motivation was clear: We are embracing a more reliable digital foundation that can enhance production efficiency and enable faster, more informed decisions,鈥� said Michelle LaPoint, general manager of Enterprise Digital Delivery at Chevron. 鈥淲e wanted up-to-the-minute, forward-looking, embedded analytics and the ability to simplify enterprise processes, automate where possible, and innovate around the digital core going into the future.鈥�
Designing a Clean Digital Core
Currently, Chevron operates on more than a dozen distinct ERP systems across its business segments. Given that complex landscape, and taking into account the varying processes across business units, standardizing business processes, data, and technology were top of mind for business and IT leadership.
鈥淔or a large company like Chevron, transformation is a global, phased, multi-year journey,鈥� said LaPoint. 鈥淲e want one common platform with standard data and processes and now we鈥檙e well on the path toward that goal.鈥�
Historically, Chevron modified and customized its legacy systems to meet complex and varying global requirements. By transforming its digital core, the company is now working to position itself for whatever comes next, taking advantage of 麻豆原创鈥檚 standard cloud product to adopt new functionality as it becomes available in . It is expected that this will enable Chevron to:
- Increase overall speed and agility
- Decrease total cost of ownership of business solutions
- Drive greater digital innovation
More so, through its co-innovation partnership with 麻豆原创, Chevron is working to position itself as a key player in what the 鈥渟tandard鈥� product will look like in the months and years to come.
Co-Innovating, Collaborating, Communicating
For large customers, the standard functionality of 麻豆原创 software may not perfectly line up with their sophisticated system needs and requirements. That鈥檚 where 麻豆原创鈥檚 co-innovation program comes into play. Partners like Chevron regularly connect with the 麻豆原创 Services team to discuss their business needs and make their voices heard regarding the overall product road map going forward.
鈥淭his is just an extension of working closely with 麻豆原创 as a co-innovation partner,鈥� said Rajesh Sahajwani, services partner at 麻豆原创. 鈥淲e are the design authority. We create the way 鈥榮tandard鈥� runs. It鈥檚 important that we are in communication with our largest customers, so we can find gaps, feed information to our product teams, and strengthen our future product road map. Ultimately, it鈥檚 all about building a better product.鈥�
Chevron鈥檚 close collaboration with 麻豆原创 in asset management is already delivering a reduction in future technical costs. This is made possible by Chevron鈥檚 strong governance efforts and positions the company as a unique 麻豆原创 partner and customer going forward.
In other words, this partnership is expected to keep each company from remaining stagnant on the path to the cloud, so that tomorrow鈥檚 Chevron 鈥� and tomorrow鈥檚 麻豆原创 鈥� will be even better than today鈥檚.
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Michael Mahoney is head of Services for 麻豆原创 North America.
