Oil and gas field service companies face unique challenges to prevent the demands on administrative and accounting operations from requiring more labor and consuming a higher than optimal share of field service operating profits. With Computer Business Solutions’ modules made specifically for oil and gas field service providers, operations can run them independent from Dynamics NAV accounting, or included with Dynamics NAV accounting as one software, one database, designed to:
- Rapidly deploy equipment and personnel to the field.
- Schedule, see availability, maximize utilization.
- Manage rentals, fixed assets, inventory.
- Streamline vehicle and equipment maintenance.
- Speed billing for trucks, equipment, crews, & expenses.
- Easily meet site, lease, well, AFE reporting requirements.
- Improve accuracy & customer service.
- Provide real-time visibility to performance & profitability.
- Speed collections and cash flow.
- Works independently, connected to other ERP software, or as modules within industry leading Microsoft Dynamics NAV Accounting, ERP, Inventory, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Fixed Assets, Assembly, and CRM. Optional Manufacturing and Payroll modules.
Key Modules (Licensed separately or as a complete suite)
| Equipment Scheduling & Deployment | Personnel & Crew Assignment |
| Dispatch | Quoting & Estimating |
| Rental Management | Field Ticket / Billing Integration |
| Fixed Assets | Purchasing |
| Maintenance | Inventory Management |
| Contract Pricing | Contact Relationship Management (CRM) Lite |
| Accounting | Human Resources |
Additional Modules
| Remote Field Ticketing | Interface to External Accounting |
| CRM Advanced | Warehouse Management |
| Payroll or Interface to External P/R | Manufacturing |
| Multi-language | Customizations for unique needs |
Oil & gas field services challenges solved:
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Labor intensive Equipment and Personnel Deployment, Ticketing, and Billing
- Quickly deploy and bill for vehicles, equipment, & crews deployed in the field.
- Save billing time with entry of service tickets and invoices is combined onto a single screen.
- Reduce delays in the approval process with increased billing accuracy from operator specific contract pricing.
- Site/Lease/Well/Rig/AFE information complies with operator specific billing requirements.
- Invoices for a specific service or vehicle can automatically assign related equipment and crews
- Invoicing for equipment by date range can optionally calculate crew time and feed payroll.
- Quickly check availability & utilization of vehicles, crews, & equipment (by each individual serialized equipment and by model number or group.)
- Track profitability by vehicle, equipment, crew, operator, well, job, etc.
- Enter service or field tickets after the fact, or in advance as a request for service.
- Speed cash flow by capturing field ticket information in the field and automatically update billing.
Equipment Rental & Scheduling (read more)
- Reserve equipment by day, week, month, date range, or hour.
- Immediately see availability by specific category, and by individual rental asset.
- Offer flexible rental terms dayrate, weekly, monthly, hourly, or other intervals.
- Customer specific contract pricing ensures billing accuracy.
- Instantly know availability of equipment assets, consumables, and crew while entering a quote or sales order.
- Know location of all assets at any point in time.
- Optionally integrated with Fixed Assets module. Sales of rental equipment can automatically dispose the rental asset.
Vehicle and Equipment Maintenance
Designed for service technicians, this module streamlines the recording of repairs and substantially improves accuracy. It provides a quick way to record parts used, the type of repair or preventative maintenance, and the technician who performed the work. Key features and benefits include:
- Large screen designed for shop users
- Parts are easily selected or scanned with bar code reader – without knowing the number
- Parts inventory / quantity on hand is decreased
- Unused parts can be quickly returned to inventory
- Parts numbers may be scanned from a bar code on the part itself or from a laminated sheet
- Records type or repair or type of preventative maintenance (user-defined)
- Records the technician who performed the service
- Information is date stamped and stored in vehicle’s maintenance history
- Works with multiple repair bays and multiple yards / locations
- Substantially improves inventory accuracy and speed during the repair process
Preventative Maintenance and Insurance & Safety Compliance (separate module)
- Maintain equipment maintenance and repair records for internal and DOT reporting needs
- Schedule preventative maintenance by date or usage
- Assure adequate insurance is in place
