Power Generation

Industry Expertise

Sapphire has been providing integrated Financials and Plant/Asset Management solutions for over 20 years into the power generation industry, for both UK generators and international generating companies. Sapphire has implemented systems into power generation organisations globally, with sites across EMEA, Asia and Australia.

Sapphire specialises in the rapid deployment of Infor10 SunSystems Financials with globally available Asset Management systems such as Infor10 EAM, IBM's Maximo, MainSaver and Engica's Q4. Sapphire have developed templates of configuration for powerstations which include, for example:- full common coding structures such as full charts of account, costs centre hierarchies, project hierarchies, employee codes, security and workflow configuration, supplier and materials management configuration and authorisation workflow processes. Sapphire can deliver an end to end solution of Financials and Plant/Asset Maintenance quickly and at low cost. We can also deliver a Financials only solutions and integrate it to your existing Plant/Asset Maintenance application.

All power generation sites need robust, flexible and easily administered Financial Suites tightly integrated to powerful Plant/Asset Maintenance and Procurement applications to ensure the financial team and the operations teams are working as one integrated team to one common, plant-wide coding structure. A tightly integrated Financials and Plant/Asset Maintenance system will deliver real-time management reporting of budgets versus actuals for all the budget owners/cost centre managers of these high cost-base generating plants.

This is where Infor with its flagship modules Infor10 Financials ( SunSystems) and Infor10 Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) combined with Sapphire's templates and experienced implementation team, can deliver a tightly integrated world class solution in weeks. Infor's solutions are designed for mid-tier organisations, the size and complexity of Powerstations and can, if needed, extend to handle large business needs. This means rapid deployment within weeks as opposed to long delivery timescales with expensive implementation costs.

Infor's modules install quickly 'out of the box' ,can be populated with data from MS Excel spreadsheet templates and be live within weeks. They deliver a common look and feel interface in a single, web based application to both finance and operations teams managing the entire Powerstation.

Infor10 Financials SunSystems and Infor10 EAM are integrated seamlessly by Sapphire using our templated MaxiSun Integration Module. This means that there is real-time tight interfacing, easy to administer interface management console, full drill down reconciltaion reports for the finance team, no need for interfaces to be built from scratch, no need to resort to excel worksheets to check data and no fear of mistakes occurring as the interface does not require manual intervention. With the Infor10 modules and Sapphire (Infor's global number 1 partner for Infor 10 Financials), the result is a unified flexible solution for Financials and Plant Maintenance delivered within weeks.

How can Sapphire address your local needs?

Sapphire has an office in Mumbai which covers Asia and has teamed up in India with Infor10 EAM partners, Barry-Wehmiller International Resources (BWIR). We each bring the experience 20 years of working with the power generation delivering Financial solutions and Plant Maintenance solutions. Sapphire's Financial systems team have expert knowledge of Asia's complex and multi-layered taxes and levies policies. We have vast experience in implementing systems that take into account local taxation laws and both Infor10 Financials and Infor10 EAM can be completely configured to deal with multi-layered tax structures. All of Infor's applications are developed for the international market and hence have highly evolved and flexible configurable tax modules to cater for all the world's transaction and taxation recording and reporting requirements.

Statutory reporting needs can also be met by the unified solution (Infor 10 Financials SunSystems, Infor 10 EAM and the MaxiSun Integration Module). Statutory reporting can be quite large in quantity, complex to produce and require the ingestion of data from multiple sources - the solution takes care of this and produces audit quality and Government standard reports.

The combination of Infor's powerful international software designed for mid-tier organisations with sector specialists Sapphire's and partner BWIR's templated configurations for Powerstations will rapidly deliver return on investment by:

• Ensuring expensive Inventory is strongly managed with Economic Stocking levels and Economic order quantities for every stock item of value
• Quickly designing a common coding structure for the Financial and Operational management of the Plant as well as complying with national and International accounting regulations
• Building an Extensive planned maintenance programme to allow full workforce and contractor and Inventory quantities planning - using the MRP function this drives the 'recommended Procurement programme' .
• Tightly Integrated Procurement with full user defined approval workflow ensures timely and accurate purchasing – with excellent potential for large cost savings
• Guaranteed best in class security and audit trail - as both products are from Infor which ensures certified Sarbanes-Oxley 404 features along with IFRS Certifications
• The software will work with industry standard RDBMS (MS SQLServer / Oracle), thereby avoiding the need to reinvest in database licenses, thus saving you money
• Deliver a 'Real-time view' to all cost centre managers of their 'Remaining Budget = Budget less Actual spend, less Committed spend, less Accrued spend – this data is available 24/7 on all devices including smartphones/tablets using the web reporting technology.
• Having user defined role specific KPI dashboards ensures greater visibility of plant data
• Integrating SCADA/ Control system for predictive maintenance
• Keeping track of Inventory Parts Warranties /Services warranties for cost effective control of replacement/repair work
• Full asset life cycle management including Equipment Depreciation
• Measuring CO2 emissions, energy consumptions etc through Asset Sustainability features
• Keep tab on safety permits and regulatory compliance.
• Increasing overall Equipment efficiency (OEE)
• Tightly integrated Work management/maintenance management/Procurement/Multi warehouse Inventory and Financials
• Full user definable workflow approval matrix for work approval and purchase approval
• Easy to use intuitive web user interface
• Common easy to use Vision report writer across all modules
• Full MS Office and MS Sharepoint compliance and integration
• Solution deliverable including UAT and full integration within weeks, not months or years as with other 'larger 'solutions.
• Infor solution brings links Finance and Enterprise Asset Management teams together on one common application
• The Finance team can provide real-time data for cost centre managers about their exact Budget availability

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