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Transforming Business Partner Management for a Midstream Energy Powerhouse

A Midstream Energy Powerhouse

In the dynamic and high-stakes world of energy transportation, this midstream enterprise stands as a cornerstone of reliability and scale. With one of the most expansive networks of pipelines, terminals, and storage facilities in the industry, the company plays a vital role in safely transporting and distributing natural gas, crude oil, and refined products across vast geographies. Its integrated operations span every stage of the midstream value chain—from gathering and processing to storage, transmission, and logistics—ensuring that energy moves seamlessly from producers to markets. The organization’s long-standing commitment to operational excellence, environmental stewardship, and safety has earned it a reputation as a trusted partner for both upstream producers and downstream customers. Backed by a robust infrastructure and a performance-driven culture, the company continues to drive energy accessibility, supporting national energy independence and global trade. 
As the enterprise expanded its global footprint and deepened its partnerships across suppliers and customers, the complexity of managing Business Partner data began to surface as a significant operational challenge. Manual workflows, fragmented systems, and inconsistent governance practices created inefficiencies that slowed onboarding and increased the risk of data inaccuracies. Recognizing that data precision and governance are as critical as physical infrastructure in sustaining operational excellence, the company partnered with Incture to leverage the Cherrywork Suite of Digital Solutions. This collaboration aimed to modernize and automate the company’s Business Partner management processes—laying the groundwork for agility, compliance, and accuracy across its global operations.
 

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Challenge:
Strengthening Governance and Efficiency Through Better Integration

Challenge:
Ensuring Accuracy and Efficiency in Partner Onboarding
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As the company’s midstream energy operations expanded, managing the onboarding of new business partners—both suppliers and customers—became a key priority. Each partner record required careful verification, validation, and approval to ensure consistency, compliance, and alignment with organizational standards. Teams captured and shared partner information through multiple regional workflows and systems, including emails and spreadsheets, highlighting an opportunity to streamline and unify processes. 

With increasing volumes of partner onboarding, maintaining accurate and complete records across regions became essential for operational reliability. Details such as tax identification

numbers, bank information, and registration documents needed to be precisely recorded and consistently maintained to support smooth transactions, accurate reporting, and strong business relationships. Coordinating approvals across business units offered an opportunity to enhance governance and transparency while strengthening accountability and collaboration across the enterprise. 

The growing scale of operations emphasized the importance of establishing clear workflows, standardized procedures, and well-defined roles to ensure consistency and efficiency in managing partner information. Ensuring seamless communication across departments and integrating multiple data points in real time became essential to support decision-making, maintain operational alignment, and enable teams to handle increasing onboarding volumes with accuracy and speed. 

Solution:
Strengthening Governance Through Integrated Automation

Solution:
Accelerating Partner Onboarding
The organization embarked on its transformation journey with Cherrywork Business Partner Onboarding (BPO)  to modernize and simplify how suppliers and customers were managed across its global operations. The solution introduced an automated, cloud-based framework that replaced labor-intensive, manual workflows with intelligent, rule-based processes. Every step of partner creation, from data entry to approval, was governed by customizable workflows and business rules, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance across business units. This not only standardized how data was captured and maintained but also provided flexibility to address subsidiary-specific requirements without compromising governance. 
The implementation further strengthened operational control through integrated
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validation and risk management. Supplier and customer details such as tax identification numbers, bank information, and registration data were automatically verified through secure third-party integrations, eliminating the potential for human error. The system proactively identified duplicates, missing attributes, or inconsistencies before records were finalized — ensuring a clean, reliable master database. With a unified platform connecting procurement, finance, and compliance teams, Cherrywork BPO provided a single source of truth for all Business Partner information. This end-to-end digital transformation not only improved transparency and accountability but also empowered teams to work more efficiently, make faster decisions, and sustain operational excellence across global business operations. 

Results:
Transforming Weeks into Days: Measurable Accounts Payable Impact

Results:
Results: Achieving Operational Agility and Governance at Scale
The implementation of Cherrywork Business Partner Onboarding transformed the organization’s partner management processes from manual and fragmented to fully automated and intelligence driven. By streamlining the creation, validation, and approval of supplier and customer master data, the company eliminated duplication, reduced inconsistencies, and established a unified governance framework. Approval cycles became faster, workflows more transparent, and teams could focus on strategic initiatives rather than repetitive data management tasks—achieving 100% efficient and compliant master data governance across the enterprise. 
This transformation also translated into measurable business impact. Partner onboarding became 5X faster, while the company successfully handled 50X more onboarding requests per month without additional manpower. Real-time access to accurate, verified data improved reporting accuracy, enhanced supplier and customer relationships, and strengthened decision-making. With automation embedded at its core, the organization now operates with agility, reliability, and scalability—laying a strong digital foundation for future growth across its global energy operations. 

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