Initiative brief

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Project details

Phase

  • Envision
  • Strategize

Status

IN PROGRESS UNDER REVIEW APPROVED NOT APPROVED

Start Date

Enter the starting date of your initiative, by clicking on the calendar icon bellow - when you started to work on different step of the initiative

 

Initiative name

ID Provided by DT PMO

Robustify Energy Optimization solution

Description of the initiative

In a highly volatile market for energy, and a very competitive commodity business, being able to take educated and real time decisions can contribute to optimizing the variable cost of production (few hundreds of K€/year savings).  It will also avoid inappropriate operation mode where we could destroy a high amount of value in a short time (several hundreds of K€/year cost avoidance).

  • automated / supported solution
  • adoption final user

Create an interface to automate data gathering from already existing tools, in order to ensure requestors are autonomous and do not need to wait for manual action. Ensure the optimization and implementation of best configuration possible

Domain & Product

Requested Domain Journey / Platform

  • Platf1- Data & Analytics & AI Platform
  • Platf2 A- Develop, Test & Deploy Platform
  • Platf2 B- Multi experience Platform
  • Platf2 C- Ent. Business Systems Platform
  • Platf3 A- Ecosystem Platform
  • Platf3 B- Hybrid & Cloud Platform
  • Platf3 C- Intelligent Asset Platform
  • Platf4- Info Security and Compliance Platform
  • Platf5- Workplace Platform
  • Journ1- Digital Customer Journey
  • Journ2- Digital Ops & Corporate Enablement Journey
  • Journ3- Digital Employee Journey
  • Journ4- Prepare the Future & Connected Research Journey
  • DTmng3- DT Enablement & Transformation
Involved Domain Journey/ Platform
  • Platf1- Data & Analytics & AI Platform
  • Platf2 A- Develop, Test & Deploy Platform
  • Platf2 B- Multi experience Platform
  • Platf2 C- Ent. Business Systems Platform
  • Platf3 A- Ecosystem Platform
  • Platf3 B- Hybrid & Cloud Platform
  • Platf3 C- Intelligent Asset Platform
  • Platf4- Info Security and Compliance Platform
  • Platf5- Workplace Platform
  • Journ1- Digital Customer Journey
  • Journ2- Digital Ops & Corporate Enablement Journey
  • Journ3- Digital Employee Journey
  • Journ4- Prepare the Future & Connected Research Journey
  • DTmng3- DT Enablement & Transformation

Initiative Ownership

Digital Technology Partner

Product Manager / Service Delivery

Roadmap & Key objectives

Roadmap


2023 Digital Technology Key objective

Yes

Must do

Yes

Phase 1: Envision - High level initiatives


Do

  • Create Envision brief if the initiative is part of the validated roadmap

  • Highlight roadmap value
  • Request a budget for Strategize if you need one
  • Security scoring 
  • RADAR/SENTRI

Don´t

  • Request platform resources if the business capability is already identified and clear
  • Write portfolio epics, epics and user stories
  • Identify squad resources

First, let´s start with the Problem space

1.1. Reason

* Why is this initiative proposed today?

Maximise usage of Energy optimization solutions to decrease energy-intensive specific consumptions

1.2. Benefits

What are the new capabilities expected?


What will it replace? Is it a new solution or an existing one?

integration of existing solution

1.3. Target users

Who are the future users?

GBU (Energy)


What is the number of users impacted?

10


What about the Business Needs?

1.4. Value proposition

What is the value of the initiative?

The value creation is the reduction of the production variable cost, driven by a reduction of steam cost thanks to adopting the optimal configuration of the power plant depending on the energy and CO2 prices.

The impact of a robustified solution is estimated to be 10% of the total project value which is currently estimated to 2.4M€/year for 6 sites (Dombasle, Torrelavega, Rheinberg, Rosignano, Bernburg, Devnya).

See also slides 27 to 31 (especially 31) of https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X_WaCiAGBI5C7T1RE4JNDAHqm96uNVMg 

1.5. Business goals

How does the product / deliverable align with the business goals?

Reduction of the production variable cost, driven by a reduction of steam cost thanks to adopting the optimal configuration of the power plant depending on the energy and CO2 prices.

The impact of a robustified solution is estimated to be 10% of the total project value which is currently estimated to 2.4M€/year for 5 sites.(Dombasle, Torrelavega, Rheinberg, Rosignano, Bernburg, Devnya).

Have support and maintenance documentation.

Potential  need to add other 14 application to grant full robustification of energy optimization envelope (+252k€)

1.6. Challenges

Are there any challenges in developing the product?

Platform availability, GEC availability

1.7. Business metrics

How will we measure success?

variation of significant KPIs at GBU level

1.8. Cybersecurity

Please duplicate this template and contact the SIP team in order to get your corresponding folder. Then, for the envision phase, answer to the initiative card tab and  to the 7 high-level questions in the "Security Scoring" tab. These questions will help the SIP team to determine the level of cybersecurity & compliance support you will need. Please contact the team by email: @SIP_team@solvay.com

being managed with cybersecurity directly

1.9- Involvment of Data Domains

If your initiative is working with data, please select the domain which is impacted:

  • Marketing & Sales (for examples: Customer & Market segment / Price conditions & CMIR)
  • Supply Chain Management (for examples: Routes & Rates)
  • Procurement (for examples: Master data: Vendors, Contracts, Material (Group)/ Reference Data: Payment terms, Structures)
  • Finance (for examples: Management (MAC)/ Financial (FAC)/ Treasury)
  • HR (for examples: HR Master Data (Employee, Personal, Identity))
  • Industrial (for examples: BOM, Asset Hierarchy, MES Tag, Process Batch)
  • R&I (for examples: Products, Equipments/ Projects)
  • Structures & shared referential (for examples: Structures/ Shared referential data/ Finished goods)
  • Sustainability

1.10. Up to investment


What is the coherent time to commit on the initiative?*

Estimated Delivery phase start date*

 

Estimated Delivered end Quarter*

Q4 2023


What is the coherent money to commit on the initiative?*


2023 (in K€)* 2024 (in K€)* 2025 (in K€)

Estimated size of investment (high level)

 180




What is the coherent run and build commit on the initiative?

Estimated additional run costs (estimation high level) per year on xxYear (xx= duration of the contract if known) - None


Type of savings expected /year for DT (Ex: Contracts, FTE, ...)  

  • maintenance
  • infrastructure
  • FTE
  • Sales provider
  • licences
  • other: please explain


Please add here the required envelop needed to work on the strategize phase - if needed (maximum 40k€) :


1.11. Resources

What skills and talents do we need? 

Data proj. Manager, Functional analyst, Data scientist, Data Architect, Data Engineer, Data Visualization

1.12. Methodology to apply (refer for Accolade)

Do you think your initiative will best cope with a waterfall or agile methodology?

  • Full Agile 
  • Waterfall 
  • Partly Agile (mix of both)
  • I do not know at this stage

If the initiative will be done in Agile methodology, please contact during the strategize phase Nicolas LOVAGNINI

Phase 2: Strategize


Do

  • Identify portfolio epics and epics within each portfolio epics
  • Create a document / slide / spreadsheet to build your epics and put a link in the bief
  • Estimate experts and budget by portfolio epics or by increment
  • Show SMART KPI (Specific, Measureable, Archievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound)
  • Evaluate the impact on Solvay One Planet objectives

Don´t

  • Identify squad resources (naming)
  • Write user stories


Now, we can move on to the Solution space

2.0 Scope / Deliverables

What is your list of scope if waterfall initiatives (technical, functional & organizational) / deliverables foreseen? What are your list of Epics if Agile initiatives?


2.1. Actions to complete 

Mandatory actions (please contact them together if possible)

Description of the action / task

Contact

Document & examples (please make your own copy and insert new link here)

Contact each relevant pool lead to book resources in the capacity planning tool

Complete Capacity planning tool

Complete Accolade

  • check once done to inform the contact       Claire Bazin   
Claire Bazin Complete Accolade

Review with Enterprise Architect the actual solution answering the objective

Complete Architecture Impact Analysis (AIA)

ARB & AIA

Check you have confirmed the involvement of each platform


Revert to SDM of each Platform

Identify security needs (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) and define security measures to be implemented by the initiative team


Complete the security questionnaire in “SIP Support tool

Support for budget estimation (via the Workload & Cost), Financial evaluation (Total Cost of Ownership over 10Y), saving validation

W&C: to be filled in to Accolade in preparation phase

TCO over 10Y: 

xxxx - Business Case/Financial evaluation 10Y

 Data Governance: if data is required, please identify the business objects in each domain (refer to envision phase)

Data Governance Strategise for Initiative Briefs
Optional

If any relation needed with a supplier


If it concerns a key supplier, a sourcing strategy has to be defined


If conformity by design is required

GMP (pharma), ISO

2.2. Users needs

What do users dislike about the current solution?

Applicable when a new solution is developed

Robustness of DAta not guaranteed, lack of documentation, no GUI to use optimization application


What tools or features do your users wish to have?

what-if scenario, more interaction with the application


What value will it add to the user´s lives?

better interaction with the field, higher usage time


What alternative do we have?


2.3. Overall Service Delivery Management for a project

A standardised process for creating and introducing services. It may sound basic, but Service Design and Introduction should be considered at the very beginning of the project.

  • Moving through the various project stages from Envision, strategize (requirements gathering) to planning, delivering value and testing before deploying the service. 
  • Embedding service introduction activities into project delivery, with defined success criteria at each stage avoids a re-work which can negatively impact the project in terms of time, cost and quality.


Who is the service owner?


What is the target?


Which platform will maintain the new service?


2.4. Risk Analysis

What are the risks (refer to Risk analysis matrix in Accolade)?


2.5. Solvay One Planet Objectives

What is the qualitative assessment of Hardware/ Data processing/ Project’s contribution to Solvay One Planet?

- Is the business ambition you will support improving or not sustainability?

- Will you increase or decrease the number of hardware we need to operate? How much ?

- Will you generate or transfer an important amount of data, especially videos? How much?

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