aspenONE^® V7 Manufacturing
and Supply Chain

Driving Higher Profitability in a Changing Global Economy

The Most Comprehensive Solution for Optimizing
the Downstream Petroleum Supply Chain

With aspenONE V7, you can—for the first time—bring together Refinery Planning and Scheduling activities as part of an extended Petroleum Supply Chain. Now it’s possible to cross silos and provide critical information to those who need it, when they need it, and in a form that’s suitable for their role in the organization.

aspenONE Integrated Petroleum Supply Chain is the most comprehensive industry solution for optimizing the downstream petroleum supply chain. The solution provides integration of specific data flows that facilitate planning and scheduling between the refinery personnel and their distribution counterparts. With the integration of the plans and schedules, refinery and distribution planner and schedulers are now able to anticipate refinery and market changes to optimize crude and product margins, while safely maximizing throughput and customer service.

The three key pillars of the IPSC that lead to increased profitability are:

• Agility — IPSC enables companies to respond quickly and profitably to changes in the market place (demand) and changes in manufacturing or supply chain (supply). Supply disruptions include problems or opportunities with crude supply, finished product, and transportation. This increased agility can lead to higher overall profits in the refinery supply chain.
• Flexibility — IPSC provides applications to quickly modify plans and schedules based on opportunities and challenges. Integrated data flows enable collaboration between refining and distribution departments that can occur in minutes versus the hours or days, saving labor costs and resulting in better decisions.
• Productivity — IPSC optimizes refinery throughput and margin while considering distribution and transportation constraints to optimize overall supply chain margins. Production plans are integrated with the refinery scheduling and blending systems to maximize the highest margin and production from the refinery. Additionally, IPSC provides integrated data flows that streamline communications and planning workflows reducing headcount requirements.

Integrated into your ERP system, aspenONE V7 allows you to truly manage your complete petroleum supply chain from crude acquisition through refining and distribution, right to the end customer. Regardless of where you are in your integration, aspenONE V7 allows you to start optimizing the supply chain and not just in a region or with a single asset-but across your entire enterprise.

Benefits of this approach include better inventory management. Now you can dramatically reduce the costs and risk of storing crude and finished product, which is a huge advantage in these economic times as we've seen the price of crude go from $140 a barrel down to less than $40.

IPSC Benefits

AspenTech has talked about an integrated petroleum supply chain for a long time. With aspenONE V7 for MSC, the first phase of the IPSC vision has been achieved to help you:

• Tighten integration across applications and application users
• Improve communication across users
• Increase visibility into problems in the supply chain
• Reduce errors due to automated data entry
• Implement faster due to less custom services work
• Increase consistency across customer implementations
• Standardize supply chain solutions (both internal and external)

The aspenONE Integrated Supply Chain can be implemented through the following solutions:

• aspenONE for Planning & Scheduling for Refining & Marketing
• aspenONE for Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing
• aspenONE for Production Management & Execution for Refining & Marketing