PointCross - Cap-Ex Programs

Cap-Ex Programs

PointCross’ Cap-Ex programs represent a family of related IEPS solutions for very large, capital intensive, EPC contracted programs consisting of multiple projects in multiple phases, with multiple major-subsystems. Examples include the design and construction of facilities such as offshore platforms, terminals, pipelines, facilities and on-site processing plants, FPSO, and the like.

Cap-Ex Project Management Office
Cap-Ex Program Management Office
Cap-Ex Project Portfolio Management Office
Cap-Ex Financials Office

Applicable Stakeholders

Cap-Ex Project Managers
Cap-Ex Program Managers
Cap-Ex Project Portfolio Managers
Financials/Cost Managers

Cap-Ex Project Management Office

Features

This solution provides a tollgated process for maturing a project through configurable stages (Plan, Appraise, Define, Detailed Design, Construct, Operate). Several such projects combine to form a program.
The Cap-Ex Project Management Office provides a WIP (Work in Process) space, along with data stores for all project information, by stage, along with the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This includes communications, meetings, milestones, risk/mitigation registries, issues/action items registries, lessons learned, deliverables and decisions.
The solution is pre-integrated with Microsoft Project, and can be used to view and access Gantt, PERT/CPM and resource leveling tools. Optional integration to other project WBS solutions, and to legacy solutions such as PLM and sub-surface G&G technical applications can also be provided.
The solution establishes project level cost and schedule risks from reported progress on milestones, deliverables, and costs.
Interface Management – the solution ensures that system interfaces, contractual (right of contract), and project execution are consistently managed according to established governance/compliance practices, and ensures a “system of record” for such interfaces.
The solution allows management of Cap-Ex project finances and costs, and their reporting into the related Cap-Ex Financials office solution.
The solution provides interfaces to the related Cap-Ex Program Management Office solution.

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Cap-Ex Program Management Office

Features

Management of communications within and between projects, programs & with portfolio managers.
Automation of cyclic data collection from project teams and other data sources.

Consolidation and re-purposing of data for analysis.

Automation of work processes across the entire program (leverage across programs).

Visualization of trends and program performance using dynamic charts and maps.

Slicing, dicing and re-purposing of data and information for project or program level views.

Publishing the data, information that may be subscribed by other programs, business units.

Driving executive dashboards, KPI presentations and portal views with drill down facilities.

Leveraging methods across projects or programs.

Data integrity & traceability, collection points, to portfolio analysis, KPIs, and executive

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Cap-Ex Project Portfolio Management Office

The Cap-Ex Project Portfolio Management solution provides the means for aligning the strategic plans of the company from different regions, and for executive management to have sufficient controls to steer project investments towards better alignment with changes in strategy.

Features

This solution provides peer reviewers in the business units with the right kind of guidance to accelerate, re-plan, or abandon ongoing projects.
Users of can drilldown capabilities into component projects within the portfolios.
This solution enables managers to focus on financial metrics such as return on capital investment, contribution to revenue growth, contribution to capital assets, and impact on cash flow.
The solution supports key metrics for contributing projects such as increase in operating revenues, increase in capital asset value, probability of success (risk assessment), and total cost of investment and its commit dates.
The solution, in combination with PointCross’ ACRS, enables Monte Carlo simulations using the basket of projects to assess the most likely outcome, and allows execution of alternate scenarios to evaluate impacts on capital, cash or resources.

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Cap-Ex Financials Office

The Cap-Ex Financials solution drives project estimation, budgeting, approval for expenditure, commits and actuals tracking. It allows project finance and project management personnel to have visibility into spends, with the ability to forecast costs at completion, and cash flow effects.

Features

The Cap-Ex Financials solution provides estimation templates that tie into project WBS and creates multiple estimates and baselines.
The solution matures estimations to budget, and establishes multiple baselines as the plans evolve.
The solution allows establishment of an AFE (Approval for Expenditure). It manages the collection of transactions from individual projects and correlates them against the AFE, with relevant status warnings and alerts.
The Financials solution establishes a “Committed” budget, which forecasts future expenditures based on technical and logistical decisions made in the field, when outside contractors and suppliers have been given the go ahead.
The Financials solution closes the loop with ERP systems so that invoices are approved against commits, create the true “actuals” for a project.
The Financials solution aggregates project-level financials and publishes them to the related Cap-Ex Program Management Office solution.

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