Transform into a Well Oiled Machine With the Smart Use of SAP

Q: How does SAP help oil and gas companies translate rising drill orders into financial and operational gains?

Rising drill orders increase demand for materials, equipment, maintenance, and refined product scheduling. SAP connects these variables into a single, synchronized planning model that improves MRP accuracy, ATP reliability, and procurement strategy. This reduces downtime, prevents inventory bloat, and strengthens asset utilization. Executives gain real-time visibility to convert drilling activity into measurable financial returns while mitigating risk and working capital exposure.

Q: What SAP capabilities are most critical for improving ESG performance and compliance in oil and gas?

SAP integrates environmental metrics, materials traceability, safety compliance, and audit documentation into its core modules. Capabilities across SAP EHS, EAM, PP, MRP, and quality management provide a transparent, system-driven record of operational impact. This reduces manual reporting, strengthens regulatory readiness, and helps energy companies meet ESG benchmarks while maintaining operational efficiency.

Q: How does Reveal help oil and gas companies unlock hidden profit already inside their SAP system?

Many oil and gas organizations underutilize SAP, rely on tribal knowledge, and operate with fragmented processes. Reveal applies its oVo methodology to realign planning, maintenance, supply, and operational behaviors with the system’s intended design. This stabilizes MRP, reduces exceptions, increases schedule attainment, frees trapped working capital, and strengthens end-to-end reliability without new software investment.

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SAP Supply Chain Optimization for Oil and Energy Industry

Turn Drill Orders and SAP Innovation into Your $720B Edge

The oil and gas sector is entering a new phase defined by rising upstream activity, disciplined capital investment, and increasing reliance on digital operations. Despite global volatility, the industry continues to advance with more sophisticated drilling programs, automation, and advanced analytics that improve safety, productivity, and asset performance.

In early 2025, drill orders increased by nearly 10 percent, reinforcing confidence across the upstream value chain. Operators are securing more efficient rigs, deploying AI-driven exploration tools, and upgrading digital capabilities to optimize every dollar of production. As industry performance improves, expectations rise across midstream, refining, and integrated operations.

Yet growth introduces new complexity. Today’s challenge is not only producing more, but doing it smarter, safer, and with tighter integration across the SAP-enabled value chain. High capital intensity, volatile pricing, regulatory pressures, and ESG requirements demand a more agile, connected, and data-driven operating model.

At Reveal, we help oil and gas companies transform SAP into an enterprise engine that improves responsiveness, optimizes working capital, and enhances operational reliability. We bring a deep understanding of oilfield operations, asset-intensive environments, and the realities of running real-time, SAP-enabled supply chains.

Where SAP Delivers Strategic Advantage

Leading oil and gas companies are shifting from fragmented applications and manual analysis toward connected decision-making driven by SAP. When configured, governed, and used correctly, SAP becomes the operational backbone that enables executives to:

‍Optimize drilling portfolios. Translate drill order growth into measurable ROI by connecting long-lead planning, procurement, maintenance, and inventory into a synchronized, system-driven model.‍
Stabilize operations and reduce volatility. Improve forecasting, MRP confidence, ATP accuracy, and production scheduling to reduce unplanned downtime and improve asset utilization.‍
Strengthen ESG performance. Embed environmental compliance, materials traceability, operational visibility, and audit readiness directly into SAP processes.‍
Advance workforce capability. Equip teams to operate more complex rigs, run more sophisticated models, and trust the signals SAP provides to drive decision-making.‍
Reduce cost-to-serve. Eliminate planning silos, manual spreadsheets, and workarounds that create inventory bloat, procurement inefficiencies, and operational drag.

Drill Orders as a Leading Indicator

A 10% rise in drill orders has a cascading effect across the value chain. It increases demand for OCTG materials, pressure pumping assets, maintenance capacity, transportation throughput, and refining responsiveness. Companies that scale through integrated planning and SAP-driven visibility are positioned to capitalize on margin opportunities while controlling risk.

Those who continue to run siloed processes, tribal knowledge, or offline decision-making face higher operating costs, trapped working capital, and lower service reliability.

Unlock Performance with Reveal

Reveal helps oil and gas companies convert SAP from a transactional record into a real-time performance engine. Through our oVo methodology and industry expertise, we drive measurable improvements across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, including:

Material availability and MRP stability
Inventory and working capital reduction
Production and maintenance schedule attainment
Greater trust in SAP data and signals
Reduced firefighting and operational friction

Oil and gas leaders who embrace SAP-driven intelligence are not simply keeping pace with industry shifts; they are setting direction for the next era of performance.

Lead the Future of Oil and Gas

The future belongs to operators who innovate with discipline, scale with visibility, and align people, processes, and SAP to operate with precision. With Reveal, you gain a partner who strengthens your operating model, accelerates improvement, and unlocks the value already sitting inside your SAP system.

You don’t just adapt. You lead. Let’s lead it together.

Success Stories

See what some of your industry peers have achieved and how Reveal has enabled their success.

Phillips 66

$15M

Reduction in Average Inventory

BP

50%

Reduction in Past-Due Elements

Petroleum Products & Lubricants

$22M

Inventory Reduction

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Q&A

Q

How does SAP help oil and gas companies translate rising drill orders into financial and operational gains?

A

Higher drill orders increase the demand for materials, maintenance, equipment availability, and refined product scheduling. SAP connects these elements into a single operational model, ensuring MRP accuracy, ATP reliability, and synchronized procurement. This reduces unplanned downtime, prevents inventory bloat, and improves asset utilization. By aligning people, processes, and system data, SAP enables executives to convert drilling activity into measurable returns while controlling risk and working capital exposure.

Q

What SAP capabilities are most critical for improving ESG performance and regulatory compliance in oil and gas?

A

SAP provides embedded visibility and traceability across environmental metrics, materials handling, maintenance compliance, and audit reporting. Core capabilities such as SAP EHS, EAM, PP, and MRP create a transparent, system-driven record of environmental impact, equipment integrity, and safe operating procedures. When governed correctly, SAP helps operators meet ESG expectations without adding manual reporting burden, while reducing the operational drag of compliance tasks.

Q

How does Reveal help oil and gas companies unlock hidden profit already sitting inside their SAP system?

A

Most oil and gas organizations operate with underutilized SAP functionality, siloed processes, and low trust in system signals. This creates unnecessary working capital, planning instability, and reactive decision-making. Reveal applies its oVo methodology to realign planning, maintenance, and supply processes with the way SAP is designed to work. This improves MRP stability, reduces exceptions, increases schedule attainment, frees trapped inventory, and strengthens operational reliability. The result is a more agile, resilient, and profitable enterprise without new software investment.