SAP Pakistan in collaboration with Siemens organized a conference on Utilities titled, “Innovation in Utilities – enabled by SAP ERP and Siemens Smart Grids Solution”, at a local hotel today. The conference discussed how SAP can help in overcoming the challenges faced by the Utilities Sector in Pakistan through automation and process enablement.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Phillip Edward Vaughan, Industry Principal Utility Sector, Asia Pacific Japan, said, “The utilities sector of Pakistan is going through a major transformation at the moment. While the country is suffering from the worst energy crisis that it has experienced in decades, the local utilities companies are making all possible efforts to minimize costs, improve their business management and develop a more agile supply chain. At this point when utilities companies are going through a business turn around, SAP ERP solutions can help these companies re-assess their needs and goals and then focus on the key business areas to attain maximum benefit in the shortest possible time”.

“SAP is a leading provider of software to Electricity Generation and Distribution companies globally. SAP empowers over 275 Utilities companies with utilities industry best practices to achieve operational efficiency in every aspect of their business, including enterprise asset management, grid maintenance, energy management to name just a few. The conference presented a guideline to Utilities Companies in Pakistan to help them become the best run businesses via SAP ERP solutions,” explained Mr. Hassan Latif Jamal, Country Head, SAP Pakistan.

SAP and Siemens Smart Grid Solution helps electricity network intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those that can do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies. Smart Grid offers an increased level of observability and controllability of a complex power system. This can only be achieved by an increased level of information sharing between the individual components and sub-systems of the power system.

Commenting on the need for positive change in Pakistan’s Utilities sector, Mr. Shan Hussain Zaidi, GM SD, NTDC said, “Pakistan, at the present, is faced with a severe power crisis, considered to be the worst of the four such crises it has faced since 1974-5. To move forward, alongside increasing our generation capacity, we need to invest in improving our processes, procedures and technologies, resulting in improved operational management, customer satisfaction and reduced cost.”

The conference concluded on a positive note highlighting the current milestones achieved by Pakistan’s utilities sector and its future path which will be potentially bright leading to better capacity utilization and more electricity for the masses.

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