Our proposal for the management of the Water Supply and Sanitation companies.
Water-Pack
Water companies integrate their management processes with the solution developed by Atos Consulting on SAP for Utilities.
Having an integrated technological platform is the basis for improving a company’s internal processes and internal communication. In the case of a resource as limited as water, it is necessary to have a comprehensive management planned in great detail, a task carried out by specialized companies that guarantee the supply in conditions and provide the appropriate infrastructure. These companies may have from thousands to millions of consumers, residential or industrial, treatment plants, hundreds or thousands of employees maintaining kilometers of networks, sewers and thousands of supply points. Along with this technical complexity comes a myriad of legal and industry regulations that impact the sector.
As a result, companies dedicated to water management face a very difficult and visible task on a daily basis in the face of a citizenry that consumes and demands constant improvement in management and quality. For these reasons, companies in the sector cannot only meet basic requirements. They must innovate to maintain a continuous improvement in service quality. This task cannot be carried out without an integrated and standardized technological platform such as Water-Pack, SAP’s solution for Utilities.
A solution that meets the requirements of the water sector.
The selection processes carried out by these companies have shown that SAP systems usually meet a high percentage of their requirements. To solve functionality problems, some organizations choose to adapt most of their business processes to the system’s proposal, mainly because the design of alternative processes proposed by the system is more interesting or efficient than what they had. Together with the solution, a methodology applicable to the implementation project, ASAP (AcceleratedSAP), is provided to cover possible process reengineering initiatives. The objective is to meet the deadline, within budget and according to expectations.
For utilities that manage water resources, the functionality provided by the solution covers, in an integrated manner, contracting and customer care; meter management and meter reading planning; calculation and billing of consumption and services; collection management; maintenance and installation services, inspection, public works and networks; purchasing; inventory and warehouse management; financial management; treasury; revenue and cost controlling and asset accounting. The integration of all these elements ensures greater efficiency in the execution of processes and greater transparency and cost control. The system is also capable of managing other business areas such as waste management, parking, highways and cable television.
Since Water-Pack is a standardized system, new versions of the product enrich its functionality with new scenarios and keep the technological platform up to date. The use of the preconfigured Water-Pack solution allows to face the management needs with the best adjustment in time and cost.