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: