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
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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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