OIL AND PETROCHEMICALS
Your partner audits the same number.
Gloree keeps production, movement and settlement data from SAP in one live grid, so the joint-venture statement and your own close come from the same cell.
Two sets of books have to agree.
You publish figures somebody else audits.
A joint-venture statement goes to partners who reconcile it against their own share of the same wells and the same cargoes. A discrepancy they find first is a different conversation from one you find first.
Shipment variance is not a rounding issue.
A cargo that lifts three days late moves volume between periods and takes price exposure with it. The variance against forecast has to be explained per counterparty, not netted into a total.
SAP is the record, and the record is scattered.
Production, movements and settlement sit in different modules and different plants. The quarterly pack is assembled by exporting each of them and trusting that nothing moved in between.
Workbooks
Q3 shipment variance, held against live SAP.
Actual, forecast and variance by counterparty in one grid. When SAP returns new figures Gloree proposes each change and names the extract behind it — nothing moves until you accept it.
SAP above all — and the three other places a joint-venture number actually travels
One cell, two audiences.
The figure in the partner statement and the figure in your own close are the same cell with the same source, not two exports taken an hour apart.
Variance per counterparty and period.
A late lifting is explained where it happened, so a partner querying one cargo does not reopen the whole quarter.
Every change carries its extract.
Accepting a proposed figure records the SAP extract behind it, so the answer to why a number moved is already written down.