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Poludniowy Koncern Energetyczny社(PKE社)は、ポーランド最大の電力供給事業者です。同社は、ポーランド国内の電力発電市場の17%と、火力発電市場の16%のシェアを占めており、6,800名の従業員を擁しています。 ポーランドにおけるIFS社の最初の顧客はLaziska発電所でした。1992年に同発電所がIFS Applicationsの前身である「S4 Financials」と「S4 Maintenance」を導入し、1993年にはJaworzno?V発電所がIFSのソリューションを導入しました。その後、両発電所はIFS Applications 99にアップグレードし、IFS Financials、IFS Maintenance、IFS Distributionを展開しました。そして、2000年、Siersza発電所にIFS文書管理と、石炭発電所向けの専門的なモジュールが追加されました。 In Accordance with General Tendencies
The world of power generation is dominated by large power companies that control the majority of this market. In Europe, the largest such concerns include Sweden’s Vattenfall, Germany’s RWE, the French EdF, Britain’s National Power and in Spain, Endesa and Iberdola. Large scale economic institutions are more easily able to minimize unit costs and limit their original costs, thereby more easily competing with other entities operating on the market. The Polish power industry is divided into four sectors —power production, transmission of electrical energy, distribution, and sales. Approximately 70 independent enterprises operate in the first three of these sectors, and several hundred smaller companies handle the sales side. |
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Firstly Finances
PKE was formally established in June 2000. In September 2000, a uniform concept was developed to handle the financial and accounting side of all its entities, and shortly after, IFS Financials™ was implemented to handle all financial events across the company. PKE utilizes various financial and accounting applications in its power stations. IFS Financials has been adapted to the variations in accounting at the various plants. Using IFS Financials, every power station is defined as a separate company working on its own data and running its own accounts, based on a uniform plan of accounts for the entity, which guarantees that accounting records are governed by common principles. The minute detail of the central plan of accounts ensures a complete record of accounting events in accordance with prevailing legal requirements and also takes into account the needs of the individual power stations with regard to their own internal analyses.
Next Step
Following the implementation of IFS Financials throughout the entire company, PKE’s board of directors decided to unify and integrate the remaining management support solutions used throughout PKE. The systems chosen were IFS Distribution™, IFS Maintenance™, IFS Fuels™, IFS Document Management™ and IFS Personal Portal™. The software was implemented sequentially. A project organization was appointed, along with five implementation teams. PKE S.A.’s chief IT development specialist, Piotr Tudzierz, explains, “We initially installed the 2003 version of IFS Distribution, IFS Maintenance and IFS Fuels in the Katowice Combined Heat & Power generating plant. We chose one of our smaller entities for this exercise, because we wanted to conduct a model implementation to get to know the problems that might occur. For us, this was a bit like an exercise on a military firing range, and the experience gained was of great assistance during the work on the second stage, i.e. in the simultaneous implementation of these three modules in the other smaller power stations. The third stage involved an upgrade of IFS Financials in all PKE power stations and an upgrade of IFS Distribution, Maintenance and Fuels in the PKE entities already using those applications. The fourth and final stage, begun in 2004, involving the implementation of IFS Maintenance, Distribution and Fuels in the £agisza power station, was concluded by March 2004.”
Topology
Implementation of the 2000 version of IFS Financials was based on a centralized model—a single server at head office and a single database serving all users in the field of finances. And so it has remained to the present day. The supplementary IFS systems, i.e. for distribution, maintenance and fuel management, are distributed over four servers. The chief element of the data base for these applications is located in the Management Centre and serves five smaller power stations and the head office, while three larger—Jaworzno III, £aziska and Siersza—have their own servers for these applications. In finances, IFS Applications™ operates in a centralized topology. For the remaining modules, IFS Applications operates in a dispersed topology. Piotr Tudzierz again, “Implementing these applications, we realized it would be best to use the existing IT infrastructure in these power stations. At the time of installation, PKE power stations had servers with satisfactory computing power, and the IT environments of these institutions still serve the applications they use perfectly well. Considering the topology of the company’s IT system, we were also concerned about whether it could cope with our telecommunication links. It should be remembered that there are some 2,300 IFS Applications users in the company, of which approximately 1,100 are defined on the server in the head office, with several hundred in the company’s three larger entities. However, the decision to go for a dispersed solution was based on the need to use the existing hardware infrastructure.”
IFS Financials
IFS Financials implementation team manager, Ryszard Mamcarz, adds, “Our owning a uniform finances application quickly proved advantageous, thanks to the uniform database and access to information directly from head office. Those who are authorized have direct access to all the information accumulated in the database. Reports to meet the needs of regular analyses are drawn up directly. The system is a tool. We use standard reports, reports created on our instructions, and we also create reports ourselves using standard tools, such as Crystal Reports or SQL. The large amount of data accumulated in the system ensures us total freedom in generating these reports.”
IFS Fuels
Fuel costs make up approximately 50% of the company’s operating costs. In the course of a year, PKE has to record the delivery of some 10 million tons of coal, 40 thousand tons of fuel oil and approximately 30 million cubic meters of gas, among other things. Every delivery of fuel has to be measured, and for every delivery there are set parameters that help streamline the company’s operating costs. PKE is the first entity with its own fuel base at its disposal, composed of two mines, which account for 30–40% of the company’s fuel needs. Every delivery, even from its own works, has to be recorded and must also comply with quality and price parameters. Apart from its own supplies, PKE has over 30 different fuel suppliers. These contracts are regularly followed up with respect to quantity, value and quality. Currently, the system automatically checks that deliveries are accurate, chemically analyzing fuel deliveries against contracts, and alerts our staff when it becomes necessary to intervene with suppliers. Hand checking such numbers of analyses and contracts would be extremely cumbersome. IFS Fuels implementation team manager Tomasz Szynol, says, “The implementation team was extremely committed to their task because there was so much at stake. The fuels area of our operations requires the generation and external transmission of complex reports. Having a uniform system for data acquisition, it is finally possible to integrate all the entities that generate such reports. Doing this manually was complicated, so when the opportunity arose to automate these actions, the implementation was approached with considerable enthusiasm. Some 40 people now use the IFS Fuels component. This system now makes it possible to prepare the required reports on a regular basis. Thanks to automation, those 40 people control almost 50% of the company’s costs without any difficulty. Apart from fuels purchase costs, other essential factors are the directions of deliveries and the forwarding agents responsible for deliveries. The IFS Fuels component controls the chain of deliveries, making it possible to check everything, optimize delivery and inventory ratios (distances and type of forwarding agent) and, primarily, to collect essential information quickly and in a uniform fashion. This makes it possible to identify the direction of deliveries and the distances involved when planning further deliveries of coal. Until now, this had been a difficult task.”
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About PKE PKE SA is currently the largest producer of electrical energy in Poland. The total electric horsepower installed by this company amounts to 5053 MWe, with a total thermal power of 2565 MWt. The company controls 18% of the domestic electrical energy market and 16% of the local thermal energy market. Total sales exceeded 3.6 billion zlotys in 2003. The company employs a staff of 6,100. PKE is composed of the following power stations:
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