Over the last few years, Schlum­berg­er has been focus­ing on con­sol­i­dat­ing its shared ser­vices across all func­tions into hubs strate­gi­cal­ly posi­tioned across the globe. Its finance func­tion­al­i­ty saw numer­ous oppor­tu­ni­ties in FP&A, man­age­ment report­ing, busi­ness insights, and finan­cial con­sol­i­da­tion activ­i­ties, and is now con­sol­i­dat­ed into finan­cial hubs based in Bucharest, Roma­nia, and Houston.

A crit­i­cal com­po­nent of this cen­tral­iza­tion was to ensure process­es were lean and that non-pro­duc­tive time was dras­ti­cal­ly con­trolled, if not elim­i­nat­ed. Schlum­berg­er quick­ly iden­ti­fied repet­i­tive man­u­al process­es in its cur­rent sys­tem. It then decid­ed to uti­lize an indus­try best-of-breed solu­tion in dig­i­tal robot­ic automa­tion to help auto­mate these repet­i­tive tasks. To accom­plish this, Schlum­berg­er inte­grat­ed the Automa­tion Any­where SAP solu­tion — this helped the com­pa­ny build bots that auto­mat­ed man­u­al-sequenced tasks in order to poten­tial­ly elim­i­nate non-pro­duc­tive time in the hubs. Its hub per­son­nel can now focus on more val­ue-added activ­i­ties, strate­gies, and process improve­ments, rather than feel restrict­ed to per­form­ing these man­u­al, non-val­ue-added tasks.