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Energy & utilities

Fuel stations and tanker deliveries, excise and e-DD, fuel reports to the regulator, mandatory stocks and inspections. The solutions are described for station networks and fuel companies. Every solution describes the process before and after, a value model and an implementation plan.

Energy & utilities

Typical for the industry: 12 of 17 solutions

Each card leads to a process description with a calculation. The figures are examples: we calculate them on company data before any build.

Finance & accounting

2 solutions · The whole area
Finance & accountingQuick win

Fleet cards reconciled, anomalies visible at once

A fill-up 300 km off route waits for month-end for someone to notice. Usually nobody does.

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Finance & accountingDepartmental

Every station’s takings reconciled each morning

Tills, terminals, cash, the courier and fleet transfers take weeks to meet in accounting. Differences dissolve between shifts.

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Supply chain

1 solution · The whole area
Supply chainQuick win

Every tanker delivery reconciled to the litre at 15°C

Invoice litres, delivery-note litres and tank litres can be three different numbers. Temperature and time make the difference.

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Operations & production

2 solutions · The whole area
Operations & productionDepartmental

Preventive maintenance that runs to plan

Stop releasing work orders by printer and typing the completion reports back a week later.

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Operations & productionDepartmental

Tanks reconciled nightly, losses visible by morning

The gauges say one thing, the tills another. The difference is usually examined once a month, in a spreadsheet.

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Sales & marketing

1 solution · The whole area
Sales & marketingQuick win

The new wholesale price list in the ERP before stations open

The producer changes prices at 6 a.m. A network that retypes them by hand sells half the morning at yesterday’s costs.

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Customer service

1 solution · The whole area
Customer serviceDepartmental

Every customer email classified and routed on arrival

Your best agents spend their morning sorting mail instead of answering it.

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Legal & complianceQuick win

Fuel licence reports ready before the deadline

The data is in the ERP, but in different cross-sections than the form. Every month someone glues it together by hand, against the clock.

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Legal & complianceDepartmental

Compulsory stocks calculated, the declaration awaits a signature

Stock levels get computed once a month, in a spreadsheet. Between declarations nobody knows the real margin.

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Legal & complianceDepartmental

Excise movements closed on time, duty under control

Open documents are watched by a spreadsheet kept next to the real work. One closed late can cost as much as the whole duty.

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Legal & complianceQuick win

Calibrations and inspections chased before they expire

Deadlines of different regimes pass on different cycles, and the paperwork sits in binders at the stations. An inspection always finds something.

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Management & planning

1 solution · The whole area
Management & planningQuick win

The biofuel blending target tracked all year, not in December

The target is annual, but the purchasing mix can only be corrected while the year lasts. Whoever counts in December only pays.

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Scenarios

The same processes in other industries

We describe these processes in other industries. Scenarios are illustrative models with a calculation, described on an example company.

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