Oil & Gas Supply Chain Management
If you live in one of the 1.5 million households that uses oil to run your central heating, your supply chain is pretty short. You check the dipstick or float in your oil tank and if you’re running low, telephone your supplier for a top-up. From your supplier back down the rest of the supply chain, it becomes rather more complicated.
You need ultra-efficient deliveries to protect and increase thin margins in the oil and gas downstream chain. That requires accurate, up-to-the-minute information about fuel levels at all points in the chain and the ability to schedule and manage deliveries In other words, just-in-time with a workable safety margin.
It’s a challenge – and one we relish.
Our Sales-to-Cash solution is the link from sales, through stock changes, to automated ordering of oil products, delivery and invoice generation. It takes sales and tank dip data and combines them with powerful mathematical routines to generate optimal delivery schedules.
Then mobile technologies direct the driver to the site and they use hand-held devices to generate electronic invoices for immediate presentation. The result is cost savings on deliveries, less money tied up in stock and improved cash flow because payments for deliveries are faster.
Sales-to-Cash is just one way we can help, either with our own solutions or combining our own products with the best available from third parties. For example, we’re working with an oil and gas major on standardising downstream processes across 10 European countries using SAP IS-Oil.
With decades of oil and gas experience, we deliver across the whole supply chain, from consultancy to applications management. We’ll even run parts of your business for you, if that’s what you need.
