As a fuels marketer and distributor, you know your business is about managing margin pressure and price fluctuations, coordinating a fast-paced replenishment cycle, and optimizing deliveries that rarely correspond to planned orders. That's why efficiency and growth are probably top of mind.

To manage growth for sustained profitability, you need to:

• Achieve distribution excellence – Optimize fleet utilization, fuels delivery and transportation processes, and fuel inventory levels.
• Control costs and maximize narrow profit margins – Get the visibility you need to manage costs and sense and respond to market volatility.
• Build customer loyalty and increase customer satisfaction – Provide exceptional reliability, high fulfillment rates, competitive pricing, and top-notch service that all result in a differentiating experience for your customers.
• Support strategic growth – Track your corporate assets and risks effectively and by seizing opportunities for profitable growth.

SAP solutions give midsize companies like yours the breadth of visibility, integration, and process support they need to achieve distribution excellence, sense and respond to marketplace changes, and manage profitable growth. In fact, did you know that 65% of SAP customers are midsize companies?

SAP can help you:

• Sense and respond quickly to price fluctuations and other market changes
• Automate key business processes across the load-to-bill cycle, including fuel-volume reconciliation and data collection from both terminals and trucks
• Determine the most cost-effective and timely delivery routes
• Assign deliveries to specific trucks and other transportation units
• Assess demand in near real time and make sure you have the inventory to match it
• Respond to unexpected situations with alerts to gaps in replenishment, changes in demand or pricing, and other deviations from the forecast
• Streamline transactions with partners, such as transportation companies, terminals, and refineries
• Integrate sales, inventory, scheduling, and accounting information – creating a seamless order-to-cash process
• Centralize customer information and tend to the full customer experience through a single interface
• Manage your company's portfolio of assets and its financial risk profile, so you can allocate spending strategically – in line with corporate objectives

Read about our customers:

• Boustead Petroleum Marketing
• Ergon
• PowerWell Services
• Scalea Combustíveis
• Tesoro Corporation
• Vetco