aspenONE® Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing
Maximizes profitability, increases operational visibility, and improves asset utilization for petroleum companies
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aspenONE Supply and Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides an integrated enterprise solution for managing the petroleum supply chain and enables 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.
aspenONE Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing integrates with SAP and other enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to optimize the petroleum supply chain and provide enterprise-level reporting with alerts. Core components include:
- Aspen Inventory Management & Operations Scheduler 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, contract monitoring, and decision support tools to further manage the petroleum supply chain
- Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner is 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 Collaborative Demand Manager synergistically addresses two primary business functions: demand planning and collaborative forecasting. The resultant consensus demand plan is a comprehensive and accurate forecast of market demand that acts as a primary input into downstream functions
- Aspen Fleet Optimizer is a solution designed to meet the challenges related to order management, demand forecasting, fuels inventory management, replenishment planning, transportation scheduling, and delivery execution management. This automated and integrated solution lowers the cost of operating a petroleum distribution network, improves return on assets, and maximizes margins
