About OPEC Systems

OPEC is a diversified company operating across a number of industry sectors including:

  • Energy
  • Health
  • Defence
  • Public safety and justice
  • Government
  • Manufacturing
  • Education

A multi-faceted business

OPEC Systems is a multi-faceted business including:

  • Defence
    CBRN equipment – detection, decontamination, protective clothing and masks, temporary shelters and accessories. Geophysical survey and EOD investigation – Removal of toxic materials, munitions recovery and underwater EOD.
  • Marine
    Marine spill response equipment – Oil skimmers, transfer pumps, towable bladders and wastewater tanks. Oil spill response equipment and services – Repair, storage and recovery, consultancy and training, wildlife rehabilitation and decontamination.
  • Energy
    Bulk fuel and tank management – Facility management, civil and structural engineering services, industrial demolition and national warehousing services.
  • Health
    Temporary, mobile field hospitals – Field medical supplies, temporary morgues, field support, decontamination shelters and showers, major incident response.
  • Hazardous Materials Remediation
    Identifying, containing, removing, and safely disposing of materials that pose risks to human health or the environment.
  • Enviro
    Contaminated soil remediation, radiological and environmental monitoring and waste disposal.
  • College
    OPEC is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 41595). OPEC College focuses on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for public and private sector employees. OPEC College also delivers industry specific courses within eight key faculties.


Hosted on Azure, the cloud/SaaS solution drives innovation for the clients who need to lower their costs of sales and operations, increase their use of analytics, and utilise digital platforms.

Selecting the best technology partner

OPEC Systems Pty Ltd conducted an extensive market search for a technology business partner that could support their digital transformation that would continue to support the diverse and emerging areas of the business, including manufacturing, eventually selecting Artis Group.

Specifically designed for OPEC, the Artis Group delivered solution is built on Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, powering successful field service teams, designed and developed in response to the growing market demand for creating a constant, timely and ‘always-on’ customer experience while scaling businesses to claim more market share.

The Microsoft based solution features tighter integration between systems and optimisation of processes, sales, marketing, collaboration, fast creation of satellite offices/on-boarding contactors and managing a mobile workforce.

The right tools for the job

Familiar tools such as Microsoft Office, coupled with a platform like Dynamics 365 Business Central, Tulip Interfaces (the Gartner Challenger in Manufacturing Execution Systems), Continia Software (Document Capture and Expense Management) and Jet Reports, have unlocked process changes and efficiencies in optimising the sales force and the field service operation.

Training requirements are minimised, and device choices are maximised, providing a flexible and consistent experience for everyone. These tools also provide the platform for future changes including PowerApps, IoT and SharePoint for document management.
OPEC needed to get full control of their new and emerging manufacturing processes, and an emerging provider was identified even before their recent recognition by Gartner as a Challenger in this space.

Product benefits

The client did not have a manufacturing system, but also with the growth in the business and the additional business lines meant the client was looking to streamline and consolidate their operations. This was to improve productivity, build in automation, reduce manual processes, and improve business intelligence with improved reporting. Added innovation, complexity and significance of this product include:

  • Visual Production and Project planning; being able to see and resolve all the constraints and bottlenecks on a Gantt chart.
  • Track R&D costs and make sure the client does not exceed the budget.
  • Managing product documentation in an integrated environment that provides an overview of the product sales, cost and more.
  • Optimising warehouse operations by streamlining functionalities like count, pick, shipping, receive, and more using mobile devices.
  • Transacting in foreign currencies when working with international partners.
  • Fully automate the processes of overseas branches following local legislations.

Conclusion

The project was delivered on time, and on budget. The success of the project is that OPEC is now positioned, and proceeding to, dramatically scale the business internationally having moved onto a modern, automated manufacturing platform, without the need to add any more staff in a very tight labour market. The order of magnitude of scaling up is in the order of 10x versus the legacy solution used.

The entire process previously involved time-consuming and organisationally demanding agendas and operations, during which employees must assess and manage large volumes of complex data. Using this solution, all these agendas are not only be done in electronic form, but all automated reducing the occurrence or errors and delays.

By keeping headcount and associated overheads low, they can also keep their costs to a minimum to support their clients’ initiatives and compete in a global marketplace.

What the client had to say

Why choose Artis Group?

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With years of expertise, we align seamlessly with our customers’ business needs and expectations, delivering tailored solutions through Microsoft Business Applications.

Knowledge

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Experts

Our team of highly experienced professionals boasts a collective track record of successfully implementing hundreds of projects.

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