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Migration to Current Version of glovia Simplifies Customizations and Enhances Operational Visibility and Supply Chain Management

Company Size

1,000+

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

glovia

Tech Stack

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Use Cases

Inventory Management
Supply Chain Visibility

Services

System Integration
Training

About The Customer

Oil States Industries is a leading manufacturer and developer of technologically advanced products, services and integrated solutions for the greater oil and gas industry. In business for more than 60 years, Oil States operates in four market segments: Offshore Oil and Gas, Land Oil and Gas, Defense, and General Industry. These four markets are serviced by Oil States’ three divisions: The Offshore Construction Group, the Elastomer Group and the Marine Pipelines Group. Oil States is headquartered in Arlington, Texas, with locations in six countries and more than 1,500 employees worldwide. The company manufactures downhole products for drilling and production as well as oil and gas pipeline products. Oil States uses hydraulic force to form immediate full-strength structural connections used to support offshore drilling platforms. A premier supplier to the defense industry since 1972, Oil States has supplied metal elastomeric FlexJoints, incorporating steel, copper-nickel, and titanium for piping systems aboard surface ships and submarines.

The Challenge

As Oil States Industries expanded internationally, they needed additional functionality not available in their older version of glovia to continue effective support of their operations. The company needed to gain tighter control of their inventory and increase operational responsiveness to maintain their competitive advantage. Their older version of glovia became very difficult and time intensive to navigate due to the tremendous number of customizations created during the initial implementation. Oil States needed to streamline their customizations and enhance the system to gain better control and visibility into their supply chain and keep up with the increasing demand for their technologies, products and support. In addition, as their business expanded internationally, the need for having glovia in multiple currencies and languages was becoming apparent and the older version did not have these capabilities.

The Solution

To improve management of their continually growing operations, Oil States migrated to the current version of glovia to take advantage of the additional operational visibility and supply chain management functionality. The migration process involved selecting team leaders for all aspects of the solution at each of the locations the new system was being implemented. This was followed by five months of comprehensive training and testing for both users and team leaders to make sure everyone was comfortable with the new system. Before, during and after migration, Oil States set up procedures and kept very strict records to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley’s extensive requirements. Oil States began their migration in March 2005 and went live just 5 months later.

Operational Impact

Increased supply chain visibility
Improved accounts receivable functions
Expanded document printing and archiving functions
Reduced the number of customizations which enabled to move towards a more standardized system and allows to accomplish tasks faster, better collaborate with other users and have a much easier time training new users
Flexible way to manage user access and are able to set user security to the finest degree to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley requirements