The purpose of the Business Process Work Group (BPWG) is to develop business process guidelines (BPG) to support oil and gas industry eBusiness initiatives. Since April 2004, BPWG has focused primarily on issues related to the Order-to-Pay process.

In addition to Order-to-Pay lifecycle issues, BPWG is working with industry health, safety and environmental professionals to develop a transaction message to transmit health, safety & environmental data. BPWG also assists other PIDX work groups as requested. BPWG operates under the direction of the PIDX Standards and Guidelines Committee.

Order-to-Pay:
Approved Business Process Guidelines (BPG):
Credit/Debit Memo BPG
Invoice Cancellation BPG

Pending:
Invoice Process BPG- awaiting Standards & Guidelines Committee final review - posted on Pending Standards page.

Under development:
Field Ticket BPG Project
Purchase Order BPG

Projects:
Current
Unit of Measure (UOM) Standardization
Hierarchical Pricing Display
Electronic Safety Data Initiative

Proposed:
Best practices for supporting documentation
Taxation
Customer-specific data
Complex pricing
Dual/Split currency
Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) process
Overall dispute resolution process – including RNIF Notification of Failure message

PRESENTATIONS AND MEETING NOTES

Spring 2008 BPWG Update

INFORMATION

Anyone who is interested in joining BPWG or would like more information is encouraged to contact:

Tony Aming, Chair
anthony.aming@bakerhughes.com
(281) 209-7117