Are you facing business pressures driven margin pressure and price volatility? In this kind of environment, distribution efficiency is a prerequisite for profitable growth. One that puts a spotlight on information technology.
To be successful in fuels marketing and distribution, you need to:
- Optimize fuels sourcing and decrease sourcing costs
- Maximize fleet utilization and decrease transportation costs
- Optimize inventory levels and match supply with demand, balancing working capital against service levels
- Provide differentiated services to your customers
- Adapt your business models and processes to changing market conditions
But if you're dealing with disparate, nonintegrated IT systems, these objectives might be beyond reach. That's why it's time to put information technology to work as a competitive weapon – with modular, integrated solutions from SAP.
A Foundation for Efficiency and Growth
Built on proven industry best practices, the SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio delivers integrated functionality for fuels marketing and distribution that's designed specifically for companies like yours. It gives you visibility into your distribution network, integrates all customer information, and automates core processes – such as the load-to-bill cycle and fleet scheduling – to make fuels sourcing and replenishment more efficient.
The SAP for Oil & Gas portfolio:
- Covers your sourcing and procurement, terminal management, marketing, logistics and distribution, and retailing processes
- Includes complete reporting and analysis tools that support the sound decision making that drives profitability and growth
- Provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services
With SAP solutions, you gain the agility you need to sense and respond to changes in a volatile marketplace. And, because all SAP software is built on open standards, SAP for Oil & Gas solutions support modular deployment – so you can add to and adapt your system as business needs change. Our open platform also makes it easy for you to take advantage of the deep industry-specific capabilities of SAP-based partner solutions.
SAP for Oil & Gas solutions meet the business needs of midsize fuels marketing and distribution companies. In fact, our solutions are built with deep expertise based on 35 years of experience with more than 550 oil and gas companies – and 1.1 million oil and gas users – worldwide.
Built on technical expertise and in-the-field knowledge, SAP solutions can help you meet the real business challenges you face every day – and drive consistently toward profitability. Select SAP solutions, and you improve your ability to:
- Maximize your profit margins – Reduce costs across your organization with visibility into every area of your business – from fuel sourcing and transportation to administrative processes.
- Achieve distribution excellence – Manage the details across your company – from fuels sourcing, inventory levels, and truck routes to scheduling, delivery, and billing – so you can excel at demand planning, fuel inventory management, and fleet optimization.
- Build customer loyalty and increase customer satisfaction – Ensure reliable replenishment, attentive customer service, competitive pricing, and a differentiated customer experience.
- Support strategic growth – Gain the flexibility you need to adapt your business models and expand, increase cash flow, and improve business performance. Ensure that your business management systems and processes can adapt quickly to organizational change, whether it's related to an acquisition, a divestment, or anew expansion project.
SAP for Oil & Gas provides a set of industry-specific solutions for fuels marketing and distribution. Built on proven industry best practices, our solutions integrate sales, finance, and distribution to streamline key business processes.
- SAP ERP covers a wide range of marketing, sales, and logistics processes, including:
- Sales and purchase contract management
- Order-to-cash management
- Stock management
- Transportation and distribution of bulk fuels
- Fuel product exchanges
- Gas station fuel pricing and stock management
- SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution covers sales and distribution of fuels, heating oil, bottled and bulk gases, and lubricants, supporting:
- Tour planning
- Telesales
- Fuel-volume reconciliation
- OpenTAS by Implico can manage company-owned depots, third-party storage, and common depots – supporting terminal automation and management processes, as well as transport logistics, dispatch automation, and service station replenishment processes.
- RackPrice by KSS enables wholesale fuels distributors to meet their volume objectives at the maximum achievable margin by better managing price/volume volatility; defining and hitting price strategy targets precisely; and tailoring pricing tactics to individual terminals, channels, and customer segments.
- PriceNet by KSS enables fuel retailers to meet volume goals at maximum achievable margin by consistently applying pricing rules and optimization, responding more rapidly to market events and analyzing location and grade-specific price sensitivities to strike the optimum profit-volume balance.