Overview
The world’s leading integrated energy companies with extensive refining, marketing and distribution operations enhance their competitiveness through integration of their business processes. A key objective would be to improve coordination between distribution planning and operational scheduling across the supply chain and adapt the responses to rapidly changing market conditions. A powerful supply chain planning tool should solve multi-commodity distribution problems regarding allocating resources – including transportation, raw materials, sales demand and processing facilities – to maximize profitability.
Services Offered
Model the Distribution Problem
Optimizes the assets and economics of distributing multiple commodities using multiple modes of transportation.
Optimal Distribution Plans
Generates optimal feedstock and/or product distribution plans for multiple time periods at various levels of granularity.
Early Detection of Demand Problems
Forecasts and proactively evaluates supply and demand problems before they occur.
Terminal Management
Increases asset utilization and rationalization of terminals and reduces average inventory level at terminals.
Exchange Management
Evaluates “make vs. buy vs. exchange” decisions and import/export alternatives. Multiple nodes and multiple products per exchange contract are supported.
Integration with Refinery Planning
Integrating the supply chain distribution optimization model with the refinery planning model streamlines the work process for distribution planning.
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