aspenONE ® Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing Maximize profitability by increasing operational visibility and improving asset utilization for petroleum companies Overview aspenONE Supply and Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides an integrated enterprise solution for petroleum supply chain management, enabling hundreds of simultaneous users to visualize market demand, pinpoint inventory trouble spots, and proactively schedule supply chain movements to discover the most profitable distribution, exchange, and inventory plan. AspenTech is the market leader in delivering innovative solutions to solve petroleum supply chain challenges. The Challenge: Accurate Planning in a Complex, Dynamic Market Petroleum companies operate most profitably when inventory and distribution aligns with market demand. The crux of the challenge is in the complex petroleum supply chain, characterized by a proliferation of grades, multiple divisional silos, global operations, and opportunities to buy, make, sell, exchange, or trade crude and products. Successful companies are those who focus on: • Maximizing asset utilization while minimizing costs and improving customer service • Integrating the complete supply chain including integration of refinery operations with the distribution network • Mitigating the risk associated with lack of demand visibility and supply volatility • Improving efficiency with standardized business processes
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aspenONE®
Supply &Distributionfor Refining &Marketing
Maximize profitability
by increasing operational
visibility and improving
asset utilization for
petroleum companies
Overview
aspenONE Supply and Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides an
integrated enterprise solution for petroleum supply chain management,
enabling hundreds of simultaneous users to visualize market demand,
pinpoint inventory trouble spots, and proactively schedule supply chain
movements to discover the most profitable distribution, exchange, and
inventory plan. AspenTech is the market leader in delivering innovative
solutions to solve petroleum supply chain challenges.
The Challenge: Accurate Planning in a Complex,Dynamic Market
Petroleum companies operate most profitably when inventory and
distribution aligns with market demand. The crux of the challenge is in the
complex petroleum supply chain, characterized by a proliferation of
grades, multiple divisional silos, global operations, and opportunities to
buy, make, sell, exchange, or trade crude and products. Successful
companies are those who focus on:
• Maximizing asset utilization while minimizing costs and improving
customer service
• Integrating the complete supply chain including integration of refinery
operations with the distribution network
• Mitigating the risk associated with lack of demand visibility and supply
volatility
• Improving efficiency with standardized business processes
aspenONE® Supply & Distribution for Refining &Marketing
The aspenONE S&D Solution
aspenONE Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides a comprehensive, enterprise solution for
optimizing the petroleum supply chain, including managing terminal demand, scheduling crude and
product movements, monitoring inventories at thousands of worldwide locations, and scheduling
distribution to retail and commercial customers. It includes pre-built integration with SAP R/3 and other
ERP systems and supports data visualization, enterprise-level reporting, and alert messaging.
Built exclusively for the petroleum industry, the complete S&D solution leverages AspenTech’s integrated,
world-class optimization technology to identify the most profitable distribution, exchange, and inventory
plan. Core components include:
• Aspen Collaborative Demand Management, a web-based solution for organizational-wide collaborative
forecasting involving statistical analysis, trending, and seasonal adjustments to address demand
events.
• Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner, a powerful economic planning tool that solves multi-commodity,
multi-period transport optimization problems related to allocating resources (including transportation,
raw materials, sales demands, or processing facilities) and balances them to maximize profitability.
• Aspen Inventory Management & Operations Scheduling enables operations personnel to accurately and
effectively manage the hour-to-hour, day-to-day operational activities and conduct thorough analysis.
For crude and finished products, Aspen IMOS manages supply and demand balancing, inventory,
nominations and exchanges management, movement scheduling, and contract monitoring, while
providing decision-support tools to further manage the petroleum supply chain.
• Aspen Fleet Optimizer, fulfillment software for motor fuels, composed of automated stock
replenishment and transportation scheduling optimization for automated management of demand
forecasts, replenishment plans, and delivery execution. It is available with options to leverage voice and
web-based tools for collaboration.
“AspenTech has helped us achieve fewer kilometers per liter and less time per route for thousands of
deliveries...we are seeing savings in every category of our fleet operating costs.”
—Ken Dymock, General Manager, Petro-Canada
Function Benefit
Inventory Management and Visibility
• View current and future inventory levels
• Analyze planned, scheduled, and committedmovements
• Conduct physical and operational inventoryreconciliations from automated inventory feeds
Operations Scheduling and Movements Management• Plan, schedule, and monitor movements of crude andfinished products via multiple transportation modesfor both primary and secondary distribution
Contract Monitoring and Deal Balance Tracking• Track and match inventory movements to current andfuture buy-sell deals and exchanges
• Monitor the current and future balances of spot, term,and exchange deals; create and execute “book-outs”
Supply and Demand Balancing• Balance demand with refinery production and supplychain constraints by product, region, and location
• Develop scenarios and perform what–if analysis
Demand Forecast and Management• Create and maintain demand projections utilizingstatistical techniques
• Facilitate forecast collaboration with external partiesvia remote web-based access
Petroleum Supply Chain Integration• Integrate between refinery planning/scheduling anddistribution planning/scheduling
• Gain visibility into all demand sources, inventorylevels, and production for enterprise wide planning
• Provides comprehensive enterprise-wide view into currentand future inventory and movements
• Reduces inventory safety stock levels with improved demandand supply information
• Keeps operations synchronized with the distribution plan
• Reduces costs and improves operations associated withintegration between planning and scheduling
• Anticipates and takes advantage of supply and demandfluctuations
• Takes advantage of favorable inventory trading opportunities
• Manages contractual commitments
• Optimizes decisions to make, trade, or exchange crude orfinished product
• Optimizes crude and product margin while maximizingrefinery throughput
• Provides accurate projections of market demand withcollaboration from demand sources