Annual Oil & Gas & Chemical SIG Meeting

1. Annual Oil & Gas & Chemical SIG Meeting 103610 Gabriele Ehnes-Lilly Susan Shaw 2016/2017 – Working in a fiscally constrained Industry

3. Our Purpose The SIG is comprised of J.D. Edwards customers predominantly from the Oil, Gas, and Chemicals industries. Our goal is to work together, as JDE customers with common industry requirements, to share knowledge and information that will contribute to a more efficient and integrated enterprise solution. Our Approach We welcome all Oracle Oil, Gas and Chemicals customers to share knowledge and information between members and to collaborate in influencing future Oracle solution enhancements for these industries. Specific objectives of the group include: • Network with other JDE customers • Discuss and strategize on common business practices • Define and prioritize enhancement and development efforts that are critical to these industries. • Collaborate with J.D. Edwards management and product development staff to advance the overall value of solutions for our industries.

4. Our current board • Annual general election • Recap of 2015 • ER: Time-sensitive Pricing in JDE • Update • Call to action • Oil & Gas 2016 – Working in a fiscally constrained Industry • 2016/2017 proposed dates • How to join the SIG • Questions

5. Our Current Board • President: Gabriele Ehnes-Lilly, gabriele.ehnes-lilly@cenovus.com • Vice-President: Sue Shaw, susan.shaw@altagas.ca • Enhancement Coordinator: Caroline Santora, csantora@petronet.com • Communication Lead: Diane Furst, diane_furst@yahoo.com • Content Lead: Michael McDermott, mmcdermott@guidewiresi.com • Oracle Representative: Ervin Rhodes, ervin.rhodes@oracle.com • Quest Manager: Dave Bailey, dave.bailey@questdirect.org

6. Annual General Elections • Content Lead • Enhancement Coordinator • Communications • Vice President • President • Representation from Oracle • Oracle Representative to our SIG: Ervin Rhodes • Representation from Quest • Relationship Manager: Dave Bailey

7. Recap of our successful 2015 year

8. ER: Time-sensitive Pricing in JDE • Status Update • Oracle acknowledges interest in this enhancement and has high-graded it. • The working committee is developing detailed use-cases for submission to Oracle • Sponsors: Amit Tamrakar, Caroline Santora • Call to Action • Additional company participation • If you need this functionality, contribute with your uses cases • Let’s make Oracle pay attention • http://nnf.questdirect.org/questenhancementtool/ViewEnhancement.aspx?id=11253

9. Oil and Gas 2016 – Working in a fiscally constrained industry Optimizing the ERP investment value

10. The Current State (with a little bit of history) • $28 as of Feb 9 • Projection: $30 to $40 for 2016/2017 • Projection: $60 to $70 for long-term • Geopolitical is unpredictable • Our operating model needs a fiscal, paradigm shift for the long-term • Our investment needs to increase its focus in technological innovation • Metrics and KPIs will become important

11. The Assumption • Your company is impacted by this current state • Every dollar counts – no waste allowed • We remain in this economic challenge for a longer period of time – AND/OR • Your company is changing the operating model to one of financial resiliency in the long-term • You have an ERP (JDE) system implemented and at your disposal • Likely have licensed modules not in use • …and you are paying for it!

12. Let’s discuss Cost-saving Opportunities

13. Ruthless Standardization • Right-size/automate technical change management and the deployment process • Development to Test to QA to Prod • Simplify hardware environment requirements • How many unique environments • How many databases • Which environment to use for training • Consider the Cloud to host your environment • Cost Savings: • Hardware support and maintenance • Power consumption in the data centre • Hardware Setup

14. Retain Subject Matter Expertise • Employees • Business subject matter expertise • Process knowledge • System subject matter expertise for day-to-day support • Contractors/Integrators • Specialized Oil & Gas Industry ERP knowledge • Upgrades and enhancements targeted on process improvement • Managed Services to supplement skills • Automation • Automate all repetitive/predictive actions • Rationalize and ensure benefits realization • Right-sized Support

15. Use your ERP first • Rationalize applications and eliminate integrations where possible • Move functionality back into ERP (you already have it there, you already pay for it) • Eliminate Best-of-Breed • Cost Savings: • Ongoing support and maintenance for integrations (this is quite expensive) • Application support and maintenance • Hardware maintenance where environments can be decommissioned • Requires: • Top-down leadership support • Rationalize into ERP

16. Ruthless Standardization • ERP upgrades are cheapest and fastest when they are implemented Vanilla • Eliminate customizations during an upgrade or enhancement where it makes sense • Eliminate cloned applications and code • Cost Savings: • Maintaining customizations and • Testing for correct functionality • Additional costs during upgrades • Re-invest into business process optimization • Customizations

17. What do you REALLY need? • Do you need to upgrade or can you wait? • New functionality/enhancements • Enable close Business/IT collaboration and agreement to approach - negotiate • Be planful – process, scope, requirements • Validate and prioritize scope against business benefit • Think about your approach – project chunking • Avoid scope creep and deliver in phases • Avoid customization and cloning where possible • Projects and Upgrades

18. Where do you find cost savings with your ERP • In the running and maintaining of your system? • Using your ERP for the benefit of running your Business in a cost-constrained environment?

19. 2016/2017 Proposed Meeting Dates • Thursday, July 21, 2016, 11 am MST / 13 pm EST • Thursday, October 20, 2016, 11 am MST / 13 pm EST • Thursday, January 19, 2017, 11 am MST / 13 pm EST

20. How to join the Quest O&G&C SIG • Sign up on Questdirect.org • You are already a member if at C16 • From your Questdirect.org Dashboard: • ‘COMMUNITY’ pull down menu • Choose ‘User Groups’ • Search in Groups: ‘Oil’ • Find ‘Oil Gas and Chemicals SIG’ • Learn more -> (orange button) • JOIN GROUP

21. Questions

22. Quest is the home for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Users Visit the Quest International Users Group Booth #323 • Let us show you how to leverage the Quest community to maximize your ERP investment • Receive your personalized Quest Activation Plan & learn how to make the most of your membership • Plus, find out more about our upcoming events PeopleSoft RECONNECT (July 19-21) and JD Edwards INFOCUS (August 8-10)