1. Working collaboratively with Department personnel to prepare discovery requests, review discovery responses, respond to discovery requests, prepare prefiled written testimony, conduct review and analysis of party testimony, prepare rebuttal testimony, assist with hearing preparation, provide live testimony if necessary, and prepare reports, as needed. 2. Attending stakeholder group meetings, technical sessions, settlement conferences, and hearings, as needed. 3. Review of all relevant filings in Docket No. DE 23-039including the Audit Division’s Audit Report dated October 25, 2023 and, contingent upon resolution of Docket No. DG 23-067, also review all relevant filings in that proceeding,. 4. Review and assessment of the effectiveness of implementing all elements of the SAP solution by Liberty including Customer Information Systems (CIS) (customer service, billing, collections, meter readings, etc.), Enterprise Accounting Management (EAM) (general ledger mapping, cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset management, procurement, inventory management), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (project management, plant maintenance, project systems, scheduling, labor management, etc.). 5. Review and assessment of the sufficiency and thoroughness of Liberty’s preparations, planning, and management for the conversion to the SAP system including a review of Liberty’s pre-conversion and post-conversion testing efforts to ensure system stability and how long it will take for the SAP system to stabilize. The assessment will also include onsite observations of the quality of SAP system-generated data processing to ensure new system stability and reliability. 6. Review and assessment of all SAP data mapping issues and Liberty’s efforts to correct those issues, including examination of Liberty management’s decision to move forward with filing its rate case in Docket No. DE 23-039 and, contingent upon resolution of Docket No. DG 23-067, with the filing of its rate case in that proceeding despite known and unresolved data processing and mapping problems with the SAP system. 7. The auditor(s) may be called upon by the Department to review specific data mapping issues and to respond to data requests or to testify regarding the audit process and findings during subsequent proceedings before the Commission.
