Resource Library

The upstream oil and gas e-Business arena views OFS Portal as a leader and trusted advisor. Its services have been delivered to suppliers and operators alike, both in the U.S. and globally, and it will continue to work to streamline enterprise B2B integration.

OFS Portal respects the confidentiality of its members’ and their trading partners’ transactional information and other proprietary processes or data. OFS Portal only shares non-confidential lessons learned regarding the process of B2B integration and e-enablement in the interest of reducing costs and increasing efficiency for all of the Upstream Industry.

To facilitate adoption and improve trading partners’ B2B experience, OFS Portal provides the following material for your use.

• Spend Analytics White Paper – May, 2010
  -     The current state of spend analytics, its value and some of the best practices.
  -     Rothman, Elaine. Spend Analytics. Houston, TX: OFS Portal LLC, May 28, 2010

•  How CEN E-Invoicing Compliance Guidelines Impact Your Company – February, 2010
  -     This article introduces the new CEN eInvoicing Compliance Guidelines and explains how businesses can use them to implement eInvoicing processes with more legal certainty.
  -     Schmandt, Phillip and van der Valk, Christian. “How CEN E-Invoicing Compliance Guidelines Impact Your Company.” ECT News Network February 5, 2010. August 16, 2010 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69275.html?wlc=1282080168 .

• Single Field Encryption for Securing eInvoices – July, 2009
  -      This paper presents a solution that allows electronic invoices to be converted from one XML format to another while providing a method of determining authenticity and integrity of the electronic invoice.
  -      Single Field Encryption for Securing Electronic Invoices. Houston, TX: OFS Portal LLC, July 14, 2009.

• PIDX International Compliance – May, 2009     
  -       A zip file with documentation and an excel-based tool which provides a conformance framework and assessment that can help individual companies evaluate their internal and their trading partners’ capabilities against PIDX International’s objective, non-biased, measure.
  -       OFS Portal LLC. Houston, TX. May, 2009.

• Master Data Management – April, 2009
  -      Importance of controlling MDM for efficient eBusiness.
  -       Master Data Management for E-Commerce. Houston, TX: OFS Portal LLC, April 8, 2009.

• White Paper addressing eCommerce tools – October, 2008
  -       Addresses toolset for Supplier Segmentation and multi-tiered approach can be more effective through faster on-boarding and using appropriate toolset.
  -       Technical Paper Highlights. Houston, TX: OFS Portal, Autumn 2008.

• eEnable Your Supply Chain – September, 2008
  -       How to get Business Process Efficiencies, Productivity Gains, and Strategic Cost Effective Sourcing.
  -       eEnable Your Supply Chain. Houston, TX: OFS Portal LLC, September 17, 2008.

• Reduce Supplier eEnablement Costs – March, 2008
  -       Digital Energy Journal article addressing how to reduce your number of suppliers without impacting the quality of your purchasing.
  -       Welsh, Chris. “Reducing Supplier Enablement Costs.” Digital Energy Journal February/March 2008: 20-24.

• Is Your Electronic Data Agreement Your Supply Chain's Weakest Link? – February, 2008
  -       eCommerce Times article written by Industry legal expert on risk of losing control of sensitive procurement data.
  -       Schmandt, Phillip. “Is Your Electronic Data Agreement Your Supply Chain’s Weakest Link?”  ECT News Network February 4, 2008. August 16, 2010 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/61495.html .

• Segmenting your suppliers for effective ePurchasing  - December, 2007
  -       To make an electronic purchasing strategy work, you have to segment your suppliers in the right way.
  -       Welsh, Chris. “Segmenting Your Suppliers – in Electronic Purchasing.” Digital Energy Journal November/December 2007: 32-34.

• Adoption of OFS Portal – October, 2007
  -       The objective and purpose of OFS Portal LLC in the upstream Oil & Gas Industry.
  -      Le Sage, William. "Industry Adoption of OFS Portal High.”  Upstream Technology Volume 2 Number 10 October 2007: 63-64.

• Electronic Document Exchange using AS2 – July, 2005
  -       Using AS2 as a Trading Routing Protocol (TRP) will provide a cost effective alternative.
  -       OFS Portal LLC. Houston, TX. July, 20