Our Solution

We help Oil & Gas and Chemical companies who run SAP and perform large shutdowns or turnarounds save millions by improving their STO and SAP processes.

 

Here’s how we do it.

STO Landscape

Current Reality vs Future State

Move from a complex mess to an integrated data model

 

 

Before and After

RightSTO™

Visual Process

RightSTO™

Problem: You’re having problems with your current shutdown / turnaround process management and believe that an STO Management application will help resolve these issues.

But: There are so many STO systems available. And you don’t know which one is the right STO application for your company.

Indeed: Selecting the wrong STO could exacerbate your problems.

Solution: RightSTO™ is our proprietary ten-step methodology to help you select the right STO vendor to meet your specific and unique needs.

  1. Detailed Requirements Matrix
  2. RFI High-level Requirements Matrix
  3. RFI Document Assist for PTP Buyers
  4. RFI Requirements Compliance
  5. RFI Selection
  6. RFQ Detailed Requirements Compliance
  7. RFQ Assist – for PTP Buyers
  8. RFQ Short-list
  9. Final Vendor Evaluation Criteria
  10. Final STO Vendor Comparison Presentation

STO Selection Methodology 

STOanalytics

STOanalytics

Problem: Once turnaround execution commences, costs are incurred at a rapid frequency.
Keeping a track of the actual and commitment expenditures and tracking PO spend daily is a difficult task and often lags actual progress by days or even weeks.

Solution: STOanalytics is a hosted Analytics-As-A-Service solution from our partners at Quirk’d Analytics that runs on Microsoft Power Bi,combining decades of turnaround reporting experience with the latest Power Bi capability to deliver a ready to run reporting workbench, including:

  • Daily turnaround cost reporting

  • Cloud hosted or on-premise

  • Simple pre-formatted SAP reporting imports

  • Dedicated mailbox for sending files

  • Actual and Commitment costs

  • Color-coded PO spend tracking

  • Contractor cost reporting

  • Weekly invoice summaries 

STOanalytics

Analytics solution architecture

EliteSTO has partnered with Quirk’d in the development of this first phase STO analytics offering.
We’re working on new enhancements to STOanalytics including P6 and Track data, predictive AI and mobile-enabled field applications.

If you would like to try our STOanalytics solution free for one month to run in parallel with your existing turnaround reporting solution, click on the link below and request your free trial. This is a limited time offer open to a small list of clients. 

 

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STOanalytics project report

STOassess™

STOassess™

Problem: You implemented an STO solution but did not achieve the expected benefits. 

 

Perhaps: The STO solution has created a whole new list of issues and now the organization is confused and dissatisfied.

 

Indeed: Some key stakeholders are calling for a return to the old solution.

Solution: STOassess™ is our proprietary root-cause assessment process designed to identify the issues  that are preventing you from achieving the expected success. Once you understand the issues we can then develop a remediation plan to achieve the desired success.

STOassist™

STOassist™

Problem: You have a very specific issue related to shutdown / turnaround management and your current consultants don’t have the experience or expertise. Some examples include:

  • You wish to integrate SAP and Primavera

  • You want to improve the turnaround material supply chain process

  • You need a WBS structure but don’t want to interfere with the existing accounting flows

  • You are upgrading to S4 and need to eliminate legacy custom code

  • You are upgrading and need a data conversion strategy

  • You need an STO analytics solution

Solution: STOassist™ is our on-demand expert consulting offering where you can have our experts on retainer or on-demand as you desire. We will be available to you as-needed and will only charge for work done on an hourly or daily basis. The work can be remote or on-location as you require and is focused on incremental work scopes and not for entire project implementations. We will happily partner / mentor you team and impart the knowledge they need to continue the improvements.

STOrecover™

STOrecover™

Problem: Your STO project has derailed and needs recovery. 
Internal efforts have failed and relationships between STO vendor, business teams and IT are strained.
The budget and schedule are at risk and the project is beginning to impact future turnaround event planning.

Solution: STOrecover™ is our in-house developed methodology that quickly assesses RFQ requirements with STO Vendor feature capability and current project scope to determine where things have strayed from the baseline plan.
Because EliteSTO is proudly independent of all STO Vendors and SAP, we will provide you with honest feedback and a recovery plan that will work.

STOpartner™

STOpartner™

Problem: Perhaps you have an ongoing SAP project that requires SAP / STO expertise.
Or maybe you are trying to win a large project, but the prospective company does not believe you have the STO knowledge.

Solution: STOpartner™ allows you to obtain the necessary SAP / STO expertise on-demand. We have a flexible approach to meet your STO consulting needs without breaking the budget.
We have experience:

  • Designing and implementing whole-lifecycle STO solutions

  • Developing complex data migration strategies for phased migration of large volumes of time-sensitive STO data

  • Driving RFI/RFQ’s for large Chemical, Oil & Gas corporations STO requirements

  • Augmenting existing project teams on an on-demand basis