Released on = April 10, 2006, 4:16 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 - Great Plains Oil & Gas Industry
ERP - implementation & customization highlights

Press Release Body = Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 - Great Plains Oil & Gas Industry ERP
- implementation & customization highlights

Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, Europe: +44 20 8123
2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027, Brazil: 55-11-3444-4949,
help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum

We are compiling this release on the base of our Houston Oil & Gas prospects and
customers.
Microsoft Great Plains serves the wide spectrum of horizontal markets. Great Plains
could be considered as ERP platform, which you could expand with third party modules
or advance with your own in-house custom functionality. The best approach would be
reasonable and balanced combination of existing modules and new custom logic. In
this small article we'll give some highlights on Microsoft Business Solutions Great
Plains implementation and setup in Oil & Gas industry, especially for companies,
specializing in off-shore platform installation and drilling.

. Fixed/Production Assets. Crude oil and gas production is a highly asset intensive
activity, all the assets: wellheads, drills, offshore platform itself, etc. must be
regularly and appropriately maintained. No wonder, that petroleum production is 24x7
with minimal downtime for repair, to maximize output produced and to minimize costs.
In Microsoft Great Plains you can utilize combination of Fixed Assets module, where
you depreciate your large assets - such as platform itself plus Great Plains
Manufacturing with the emphasis on Capacity Resource Planning. Considering that it
is not a real manufacturing, but rather allocation of your production assets and
time - you could use Great Plains Project Accounting just to allocate resources, or
even Great Plains Dexterity customization to serve resources allocation and
assignment to the cost centers
. Logistics. Oil & Gas production is under the strict safety and environmental
standards and requirements at the company, industry and governmental levels. These
requirements imply best practices and efficiency in logistics, from procurement of
materials to the receipt of those materials at the relevant wellsite - the right
materials, right on time, at the right location. In Microsoft Great Plains you use
Inventory (IV), Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order Processing (POP)
modules to automate your Logistics via Barcoding, automated shipping/receiving, etc.
You combine these technologies: Great Plains Dexterity, VB/VBA (Barcoding reading
and uploading to GP), MS SQL scripting, .Net web publishing.
. Production Phases. Drilling, Water/Gas preparation for injection, oil processing,
cleaning, leaks monitoring - these could be set up as phases in your light
manufacturing or project accounting module. You will need custom logic to be
implemented in Great Plains Dexterity.
. Market Size. Estimated number of offshore drilling platforms worldwide is about
7,000. Current trend is total expenses reduction, which in turn encourages
companies management to revise ERP efficiency and cost plus analyze the evolution in
computer technologies.

About Alba Spectrum Technologies. Alba Spectrum Technologies is joint venture of
several IT and business consulting companies, now operating as single business
entity. We have local presence in the Houston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San
Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, San
Francisco, LATAM & Brazil, Germany, Russia, South East Asia and Oceania. We believe
in the coexistence of Java (J2EE, EJB, Linux, Unix), Oracle and Microsoft (.Net, C#,
VB) platforms and systems and specialize in several product lines and cross platform
integration, customization, heterogeneous report design, plus we provide ERP/CRM
systems comparison and reviews, not being committed to just on MRP platform. We also
stake on XML cross-platform data interchange to be advanced in the coming decade.

Alba Spectrum Technologies websites:
http://www.albaspectrum.com
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
http://www.enterlogix.com.br
http://www.ronix-systems.de


Web Site = http://www.albaspectrum.com

Contact Details = Alba Spectrum Group, USA/Canada: 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918,
Europe: +44 20 8123 2580, +45 36 96 55 20, Mexico: 52-55-535-04027, Brazil:
55-11-3444-4949, help@albaspectrum.com skype: albaspectrum