Industries

Fuel and Liquids

Every industry has its special requirements, and software which meets these requirements must be specifically tailored if it is to maximize the benefits of automation. This is especially true for the Fuel Industry.

The TransLogix Fuel solution is the most widely used by independent Fuel Distributors in Australia for bulk fuels and lubes. It covers the wholesale distribution, blending, accounting, transport & logistics requirements with standard interfaces to the most common retail POS systems, onboard truck computers and fuel cards.

Benefits

  • Reduction in operational costs through the elimination of manual processes, and the accurate calculation of costs and inventories.
  • Improvements in customer service through improved speed and reduction of errors.
  • Improved management information leading to better decision making

Features

The Fuel Distributors' Solution is industry specific and therefore covers all the common requirements of Fuel Distribution companies. In addition it caters specifically for the Australian Fuel Distribution industry. Features include:

Managing bulk movement of fuel throughout the supply chain from depot, through trucks to distribution points

  • Managing storage locations and inventory
  • Managing multiple truck compartments
  • Processing the movement of all fuel into and out of warehouse and trucks
  • Full load documentation

Providing comprehensive interfaces to common retail POS systems

  • Interfaces to ONQ POS
  • Interfaces to Breeze POS
  • Caters for Fuel Cards

Caters for the complex pricing and costing, specific to the Fuel industry

  • Calculates correct cost into store price using Terminal Gate Price, Cost of Delivery, adjustments for State Levy at both terminal and delivery point, and discounts
  • Calculates Sell price from the Cost with adjustments for State Levy at both terminal and delivery point, cost of delivery and special deals

Provides for temperature correction calculation in all transactions including the costing and pricing of deliveries
 

Caters for Federal Government eGrant
 

Interfaces with onboard truck computers

  • Directly loads orders onto the PDA
  • Accepts actual deliveries from the trucks
  • Automated processes fully update all data into TransLogix database for analysis and reporting

Interfaces to Truck Stop fuel pumps
 

Manages use of distributor Fuel cards

  • Collates all fuel card data
  • Interfaces collected data to Fuel Head office

Provides extensive reporting on all aspects of the Fuel Distribution operation including;

  • Fleet Performance
    • cents per litre delivery
    • $ per km delivery
  • Customer Distribution costing
    • Volume delivered
    • Kilometres travelled
    • Hours taken
  • Customer Delivery profile
    • Position and capacity of tanks
    • Average drop
    • Restrictions
    • Seasonality
    • Special instructions

Success

The Fuel Distributors solution was originally developed by its dealer Pacific Software over the past decade. It was incorporated into TransLogix ADVANTA range following the merger of Pacific's Logistics operations in June 2005.

The Fuel Distributors' solution has enjoyed wide acceptance in the Australian marketplace and is one of the leading Fuel Distributors' systems in Australia today.

 

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