Gas Distribution Solutions

Ventyx Enterprise Asset Management solutions provide a full, clear view of an organization’s asset infrastructure and the workforce maintaining it. Our capabilities extend beyond traditional production assets. With Ventyx, you can manage multiple asset types and still have one clear view of the entire asset infrastructure. Key benefits include:

• Improving asset and resource utilization
• Improving equipment readiness
• Increasing safety and mitigated risk
• Reducing asset lifecycle costs
• Ensuring supply chain availability and visibility

With Ventyx Mobile Workforce Management solutions for field service, field personnel can perform the right job at the right time with the right resources. Key benefits include:

• Ensuring the allocation of appropriately skilled workers to each job
• Providing electronic dispatch to mobile devices in the field and revisions to scheduled tasks based on real-time field intelligence
• Automatically allocating time, labor and material costs to jobs performed for timely reporting and audit transparency
• Reducing the risk of employee injuries
• Providing direct access to up-to-date information for field staff

Asset intensive organizations service and operate their assets in the field, where they live. This workforce is often distributed across vast distances, or in remote and dangerous locations, and exposed to volatile conditions. Ventyx solutions provide unique mobile business applications that take asset management and business processes to the work site to automate processes and to safely and efficiently perform inspections, maintenance and repairs.

• Improving quality, consistency and efficiency of asset-based work
• Reducing workforce fatigue and improving workforce safety
• Increasing asset productivity and asset availability
• Facilitating compliance with asset strategies established and managed in EAM systems
• Reducing cost of asset maintenance and workforce deployment
• Providing governance over work processes in the field
• Improving visibility of assets and workforce
• Standardizing or policies and processes in the field and across the organization

Understanding parts management and inventory optimization plays an important role in an organization’s success – particularly in relation to mission-critical assets. The challenge is how to best balance inventory levels. Ventyx Parts Management is the most effective way to reduce inventory while protecting against the risk of stock-outs. Key benefits include:

• Reducing asset down-time by increasing maintenance team efficiency
• Reducing working capital tied up in inventory
• Improving the effective management of stock
• Enabling all parts and service information to be found quickly and easily
• Providing accurate catalog descriptions and classifications

To provide efficient communications with the hundreds of North American pipelines, gas market participants need new tools to be able to anticipate and validate the expenses incurred on those pipelines. Ventyx solutions for pipelines support the shadowing of pipeline invoices - something that gas market participants have not focused on in the past due to the lack of available software tools. Key benefits include:

• Speed-to-market with out-of-the-box pipeline configuration 
• Peace of mind with pre-tested NAESB transaction sets in real world environments
• Standardize on a single transaction management solution across multiple pipelines

The Ventyx Retail Forecasting & Operations solution delivers the industry’s most comprehensive set of solutions for energy retailers. Key benefits include:

• Decreased energy cost and risk via more accurate forecasts
• More efficient regulatory reporting
• Ability to re-allocate staff to analytical activities due to increased process automation and efficiency
• Decreased exposure to real-time markets

ETRM provides asset-centric electricity and gas utilities with a single system for multi-commodity trading, allowing them to measure and monitor the risks associated with commodity positions and improve operational efficiency and control across the trading organization. Plus, ETRM has the added benefit of easy integration to other Ventyx portfolio solutions to optimize operations across your enterprise. Key benefits include:

• Accessing fully integrated front-, middle- and back-office functionality with straight-through processing
• Improving the ability to manage trading transactions and risk exposure for complex assets
• Increasing transparency from the trader to the chief risk officer and for FAS compliance
• Lowering total cost of ownership from quick implementation and ongoing support
• Real-time valuation and the industry’s only graphical, drill-down reporting capability, which manages exposure to a variety of market, volumetric and other risks.

Asset intensive industries tend to focus more on the complex plants and equipment they use than the products they produce. Any interruption due to plant or equipment failure can result in lost production that may be unrecoverable. The enterprise asset management components of the ERP software are as important as material requirement planning components for a manufacturing organization. Asset-intensive ERP has been specifically designed to maximize asset productivity and help prevent equipment failure that can lead to lost revenue and safety and environmental risks. Key benefits include:

• Improving management of human resources and skilled labor
• More rigorous control of data collection for financial and managerial reporting
• More effective corporate governance and better transparency
• A more efficient supply chain that frees up capital tied up in inventory
• Improving availability of assets and reduced stock-outs of critical items

To improve strategic and tactical decision making, management need greater insight and visibility of all aspects of the operation – from the effectiveness of its staff to the performance of its plants and equipment. Ventyx Business Intelligence captures and aggregates rich data held across disparate software systems. Easily tailored for individual users or user groups, Ventyx Business Intelligence compiles the industry's best business practices into pre-packaged solutions to enable companies to more effectively monitor and manage their distributed assets on a real time, near-real time, and event-driven basis. Key benefits include:

• Prepackaged dashboards for high value KPIs such as asset health, work management, operations management, smart grid, and financials
• More timely and accurate reporting on the KPIs which matter most – working alongside your existing corporate BI strategy
• Improving decision making by capturing and aggregating the rich data held within software systems across the enterprise
• Better allocation of finite funding to generate the greatest return on investment
• Make costs and opportunities more accurate and visible throughout the organization, from line managers to executives
• Improving productivity and asset reliability by establishing baselines and best practices

Energy markets have converged. Analysts need the ability to quickly evaluate the activities of market participants and industry dynamics across commodities without having to jump between applications. Energy professionals need more than just accurate data – they need powerful analytical tools that can help them quickly find the answers to complex and data intensive industry problems. Ventyx is a market leader in energy market planning and analytics, and is the only major market forecast provider to backtest the performance of its Advisory Service forecasts over time. Key benefits include:

• Performing common industry analysis quickly with sophisticated analytical and planning tools
• Analyzing the complexities and risks associates with transmission access to plant locations, power contracts, and unit production costs
• Minimizing costs (or bids) while simultaneously adhering to a wide variety of operating constraints
• Maximizing profits by supporting market-based investment decisions
• Improving regulatory compliance reporting