Align Systems, Process and Organization for Brazilian Crude Trading

The challenge

Highly customized SAP and multiple marketing and trading applications, needing to evaluate if their platform would support their highly manual Brazilian Crude Business

Due to the manual nature of Brazil, difficult to manage movements and inventories

Deal capture, volume management, and hedging were essentially managed in spreadsheets

Measuring their credit and risk exposures difficult to accurately and timely manage

Additionally, Brazil had complex legal entity, tax structure, and FPSO transaction rules

Successful outcome

• ✓Produced a detailed view of how the Brazilian business worked so it could be effectively communicated
• ✓Gave visibility into what systems and technical landscapes would best manage the business
• ✓Provided them with a detailed analysis of options to enable prudent decisions

How we did it

• Conducted a detailed analysis of every key Brazilian business process around crude trading, marketing and transportation logistics
• Detail of how the various business processes would work and the roles within each function between Houston based and Brazilian based entities
• Compared all viable options to effectively manage the business from end -to-end

Boxley Group competencies

• Business Evaluation
• Information Technology
• Strategy Development & Implementation
• Process Optimization