Specific Management Applications Inside a SAP System for Oil and Gas Company

The accounting activities environment, the business itself is changing on a daily basis and the technologies are in constant update. The beginning of the discussions, for this paper, goes to how we can extract data from an ERP system, how we can calculate KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) based on these data and how we can adapt and create one tool in this respect. According with management's decision of the oil and gas company the old KPI tool will be moved to SAP - ZKPI application. The Functional and Technical Specification was adapted for SAP (System, Applications and Products) environment, because this new tool will be adapted in this system. For ZKPI tool, the programming language used was ABAP (Web Dynpro technologies). In this article, it is presented a concept (a particular one) which is already used in oil &gas industry, a model of collecting data from an ERP (invoices, orders, data from papers regarding fixed assets, etc.), and how we can use these data for KPI's. Why do we need these collected data? In order to reach the target for accounting employees and managers regarding personal development goals - PDS, these data are used. One of the major aspects in an accounting department is the number of data entered in one SAP ERP system, based on team composition, as well as knowledge of economic activity and SAP knowledge. All accounting activities in a calendar month are monitored and counted in order to meet certain KPI's agreed with superiors at the beginning of the year. In the following, we will present, contextually, the data that led to the implementation of this application.