GI Awarded 1C: Project of the Year
In its fourth international contest, 1C Partnership Network awards the project of the year recognition to the deployment of an electronic workflow system powered by 1C: Document Management 8 across the Gazprom EP International Group. This makes it a number one project in Central and Eastern Europe.
To improve its organizational performance, the company has undertaken, among other projects, that of creating a single infosphere and digitizing in-house workflows. Experts at Gazprom EP International believe that using a new EDMS will make the approval of documents and decisions four times faster as well as strengthen performance discipline.
The new system allows people working across the continents to address shared challenges through a single ‘information window.’ To smoothly manage business processes, the EDMS is complemented with task-delegation and proxy options, while the interface and settings are available in both English and Russian. On top of that, a corporate request has been fulfilled to improve the monitoring of financial performance in contract management. Integrated into 1C: Holding Management 8, this option allows keeping track of any deviations from the schedule.
Project leader Egor Sokolov, a lead specialist in automated systems at the St. Petersburg Branch of Gazprom EP International, says that he had second thoughts on how to continue with and upscale the automation initiative while he was launching the pilot project:
“It all started out with automating contract workflows across the Group Companies. Once we had a pilot in place in our Dutch and St. Petersburg offices, we managed to get improved system functionality across the rest of the Group companies through our own efforts. Users enjoyed the service immediately. So we got bombarded with requests to automate the approval of memos, business trips, etc. All that gave us second thoughts about how we could digitize processes. We had created a product capable of successfully addressing various challenges wherever the company operates.”
Implemented in an international company, first-time process automation supported by Russian software wins recognition from professional community. Backed by partners, the Project Team including Konstantin Tarasevich, Egor Sokolov, Yulia Kirillova, Alexandra Lukyanova, and Alexander Lavrik, have successfully fulfilled their task.
Background
Gazprom EP International is Gazprom’s upstream operator outside the Russian Federation. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The company operates in two dozens of counties across three continents and is involved in nearly 40 projects of varying magnitude. The key areas of focus include managing overseas upstream projects; searching, evaluating, and acquiring new petroleum assets in the world's major oil and gas regions; and representing Gazprom before foreign private and state-owned petroleum companies.
Offered by the Russian company 1C, 1C: Document Management is a workflow-automation software product powered by 1C: Enterprise 8. The system allows automating the entire cycle of document flows, streamlining interaction among employees, and keeping track of worktime.
By joining the contest, businesses that successfully run 1C: Enterprise 8 solutions share their best implementation practices and address the challenges of workflow automation.