aspenONE Supply & Distribution

aspenONE Supply & Distribution drives core improvements to the processes associated with the physical operations for the petroleum industry. It is an enterprise solution enabling supply & demand balancing, inventory management, movement scheduling, nominations management, exchange management and cost tracking in a single offering. This portal application forms the operational backbone of your downstream petroleum supply chain. It comes with optimization based decision support for product blending, transportation planning and economic analysis of the buy vs. make vs. trade vs. exchange and export/import alternatives. Integrated statistical forecasting capabilities provide for demand trends analysis along with a web interface for collaborative use by remote sales people. You also get state-of-the-art data visualization, enterprise level reporting, and alerting capabilities for strategic, planning as well as operational conditions.

aspenONE Supply & Distribution maximizes profitability by

  • Bridging the gap between operations and trading to enhance visibility and optionality
  • Increased ability to manage production and demand and identify gaps
  • Replacement of outdated legacy/spreadsheet based systems and standardization
  • Improved response in handling supply chain volatility & disruptions
  • Strategic and tactical network optimization with increased asset utilization

How aspenONE Supply & Distribution meets the challenge

  • Create and maintain accurate projections of market demand, which are continuously updated through collaboration from many functional groups as circumstances change.
  • Achieve accurate and up to date visibility into inventory (quantity, quality & price) and operational movements. This results in single data flow across systems and business processes enabling inventory management and operations scheduling.
  • With the underlying aspenONE architecture, achieve easy integration across the business processes with in the module and outside such as refinery planning, boosted with single entry data management through integration to mid-office & back office ERP financial systems.
  • Optimize across multiple transportation modes and assets and evaluate the impact of changes in supply chains and try new market strategies. Maintain control of the allocation of products and crudes.

Predict, optimize, schedule & manage the movement of crudes, intermediates and the products into the refinery and from refinery to the terminals

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