OVERVIEW
The company is owned by four shareholders, namely, the Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49%); Shell (25.6%); Total LNG Nigeria Ltd (15%) and Eni (10.4%).
NLNG contributed about 4% of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As a good corporate citizen, the company also contributes immensely to national wealth and to the wellbeing of states in which it operates, by paying all applicable taxes and tariffs.

THE NEED
The customer had too many stand- alone systems, difficulty in extracting global spend statistics with its current application landscape lacking system embedded controls.
GRC health check was done manually and also detached from system processes. Varying data and reporting ramifications due to different data sources. Too many spreadsheets, reports prone to human error and too many manual steps in processing transactions.Thus, the client was looking for a solution that will help solve the above and:
 Drive accountability & compliance through performance visibility
 Standardize business processes and adopt Industry Best Practices
 Analytics for Performance Management & Decision Making (Business Intelligence)
 Commercial Insights, TCO
 Governance, Risk and Compliance
 Building block for e-Business Platform

SOLUTION
To address the concerns of the client, SERVE the following modules of the SAP solution;
• Finance & Controlling – Receivable Management, Financial Planning, Invoice Management, Asset Management
• Materials Management – Inventory Management, Procurement
• Supplier Relationship Management – Self-Service Portal, e-biding
• Contract Lifecycle Management – Contract development
• Portfolio & Project Management
• Project Systems – Project Management & reporting
• Sales and Distribution – Sales Process and goods Distribution & Delivery Management
• Human Resources – Talent Management, Workforce Process Management, Travel Management
• Business Planning and Consolidation
• Bank Communication Management
• Cost Management & Profitability Analysis
• Business warehouse and Business Intelligence
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

RESULTS
The ERP system deployed helped the client to have one single source of truth, rationalize data sources for accurate management information, promote transparency, efficiency and visibility; enhance business transformation and continuous improvement for a top quartile performance.

SERVE & NLNG – The Right Partnership
The NLNG SAP Implementation project was adjudged to be a Signature Project in the whole of Africa by the Project Quality Assurance Partner (KPMG)