SAP TSW (Traders' and Schedulers' Workbench) is successfully being used by many Oil & Gas, Mining and Chemical companies to manage their trading, scheduling and Logistics functions efficiently for last several years.
Couple of weeks back, a SAP IS-OIL professional asked me what the latest innovations within SAP TSW are. It was a memory teaser! I had to recollect all those developments which we did and explain him. Later after a week together with colleague Christina (
Kinnera.christina.tenali@sap.com), I decided to put this in a structured format, to let SAP TSW professionals around the world know -
What's inside SAP TSW for ECC 6.0.
So what is in now? Now SAP TSW addresses Bulk Trading & Scheduling as an end-to-end, cross-functional process providing unified view of information to traders, schedulers & finance analysts.I assume that, you already have some background about SAP TSW. We added new capabilities around following processes.
- Trading & Risk Management
- Scheduling & Logistics
- Easy to use Web Interface for scheduling
- Analytics
In this first part of the Blog, I cover first 2 topics.
Trading & Risk Management:
Integration with SAP Global Trade Management allows operating scheduling operations in line with trading functions. This provides better visibility & risk management capabilities. As of Enhancement Pack 3 for SAP ERP 6.0, you find following capabilities
- Capture scheduling details while creating or changing Trading Contract
- Transfer trade deals from external systems as Trading Contract using SOA enabled interfaces and capture scheduling information & events
- Create TSW nomination referring to Trade contracts .This allows to synchronize the open and scheduled quantity, thereby better risk management
Additionally SOA enablement was designed as of Enhancement Pack 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
- Set of SOA enabled interfaces to integrate with non SAP/custom trading front ends
Scheduling & Logistics
Several new features are added to scheduling capabilities. Following list provides a better understanding of these enhancements.
Scheduling & Logistics
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Multi Material View
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Allows schedulers to have aggregated and expanded views of stock levels of multiple materials at a glance
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Enhancement Pack 3 for SAP ERP 6.0
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Railcar transport
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Capture railcar information in nomination at transport unit or compartment level
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Enhancement Pack 3 for SAP ERP 6.0
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Delivery and Material Document creation possible at sub-item level
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Enhancement Pack 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 *
(Planned)
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Document flow extended by drill-down on Deliveries and Material Documents
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Gas Allocation
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Gas Allocation allows to adjust and allocate quantity differences which occur during gas transportation
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Enhancement Pack 3 for SAP ERP 6.0
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Hatch Plan
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Hatch Plan allows tracking the schedule for loading materials into the hatches of the vessel. You can exchange this information with the carrier and the vessel captain
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Pipeline Cycles
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Pipeline Cycle allows to track pipeline cycles , which could be used to avoid mixing different types of crude oil in one cycle and also to avoid overlapping of the different pipeline cycle
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Enhanced User Access Management
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Enhanced user access management allows restricting the data access for nominations & ticket documents based on several criteria including transport system, shipper, carrier, document type, location. Ticketing can be further restricted by activity types such as actualization, correction & reversal.
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Hope you find the above information helpful .Please drop in your comments / feedback / Suggestions / below. You can reach out to me at Ravindranath.nayak@sap.com
I will be back again next week with details on Analytics & Web UI for scheduling. Stay tuned.
