What is it?
Petroleum logistics software serves as an integrated system designed to manage all aspects of last-mile delivery for a wide range of petroleum products. This includes fuel, lubricants, chemicals, propane, and home heating oil.
Core Features of Petroleum Logistics Software
Petroleum logistics software, sometimes referred to as fuel distribution software, includes the following key features:
- Dispatch management
- Route optimization for efficient delivery across fleets
- Order generation from tank monitors or historical data
- Mobile apps for driver workflows
- Customer notifications (SMS, email, WhatsApp)
- Electronic invoicing for a paperless process
The system serves as a foundation for a data-driven logistics organization, significantly improving efficiency and reducing transportation costs. Companies using logistics management software for oil & gas can optimize fuel distribution while maintaining product integrity and boosting customer satisfaction.
5 High Impact Areas of Petroleum Logistics & Fuel Dispatch Software
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce total transportation costs by up to 15% through route optimization and real-time vehicle tracking.
- Customer Service: advanced notifications features, including (SMS, email, WhatsApp) for “Where’s my order?” (WISMO), electronic proof of delivery (ePOD), driver on-the-way (OTW), and advanced shipping notices (ASN)
- Inventory Control: Real-time visibility into truck inventory via continuous eMeter monitoring, improving overall inventory management for oil and gas logistics.
- Product Integrity: A 3-way match system ensures that the correct product is delivered to the correct location, reducing errors.
- Analytics: Access to KPIs and dashboards enables better decision-making through insights derived from logistics data, enhancing oil and gas supply chain software performance.
What Petroleum Logistics Software Does
The core of petroleum logistics software lies in the development of optimized routes and real-time visibility into transportation operations. The system allows fuel delivery companies to streamline processes such as order generation, tank monitoring, and route optimization. By using logistics management software for oil & gas, companies can monitor and manage fuel deliveries from a single platform, improving operational efficiency across fleets.
You and your customers have full access to visibility into the transportation process through our Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform (RTTVP), goRoam.MobileHub.
Fuel delivery companies come in all sizes, and BizSpeed’s petroleum logistics system is designed to provide a user-friendly experience for all fleet types. goRoam scales from easy drag-and-drop orders for smaller fleets, to multi-vehicle, multi-compartment route optimization for larger fleets. This flexibility ensures efficient routing capabilities whether managing 5 trucks or 500.
Petroleum Logistics Software Features
What it includes:
- Tank Monitoring Integration: view tank telemetry across multiple tank sensors, including ANOVA, Otodata, Centeron/Schneider Electric, and more
- Tank Forecasting: forecast tank levels based on delivery history, customer operating hours, and tank monitors
- Order Generation: generate tank or other keep-full orders based on the optimal models such as Degree Day, historical usage, manual entry, tank monitor, forecasting with exponential smoothing (weighting recent data more heavily), AI, ML, regression, ARIMA (arithmetic moving average), AUTO ARIMA, and others
- Route Building: create routes (trips), assign drivers, trucks, and trailers. Add orders and loads based on truck compartments, capacities, customer delivery windows, and delivery constraints. Show trips, orders, planned hours, volume, and weight on a map.
- Route Optimization: Optimize routes for single and multi-vehicle fleets to reduce transportation miles and improve delivery efficiency. This last-mile delivery optimization software ensures that each delivery is handled efficiently, whether you manage 5 trucks or 500.
- Multi-Vehicle, Multi-Compartment Route Optimization: for bulk trucks, support for selecting multiple orders and trucks/trailers (with compartments), and building the optimal set of routes based on constraints.
- Route Sequencing (single route): sequence a single route and display updated time and distance calculations as orders are rearranged for a single route
- Route Time and Distance Calculations: calculate time and distance based on truck routing, considering factors such as height, weight, axle weight, and hazmat
- Real-Time Integration: monitor driver events in real-time, including trip start/end, order start/end, load start/end, real-time inventory snapshots
- Mobile App with Delivery Workflows: utilize a mobile app with manual meter entry, eMeter tracking, transport workflows, package goods, 3PL third party logistics, and other delivery specific workflows such as home heat and propane.
- KPI and Dashboard Analytics: access key performance indicators and dashboard analytics for comprehensive insights into the fuel dispatch operations
How you benefit:
Petroleum logistics benefits vary based on the type of petroleum you deliver. Whether you provide fuel transport to C-Stores, fleet-fueling (wet hosing), commercial fuel to construction and above-ground tanks, propane, home heat, atmospheric gases, or chemicals you will see benefits immediately.
Some of the petroleum logistics software benefits our customers experience are:
- 3-8x ROI
- 5-20% reduction in total transportation miles via route optimization
- 50% reduction in retained product (return to warehouse)
- 30% increase in drop size
- Shorten OTC (order to cash) by 7-14 days
- $2-8 per invoice by going paperless
- 30-120 minutes saved per day of driver time in labor savings and paperwork
- Real-time notifications for customers on delivery status
- Customer portal for order lookup, export, and creating orders with customer specific products
- Real-time visibility into truck inventory
- Eliminate cross-fills with 3-way matching between tanks, compartment and product
- 30% improvement in asset utilization with more full trucks
- Meet customer expectations by delivering Amazon-level customer service
BizSpeed’s Petroleum Logistics Solution
Our Petroleum Logistics Solution contains workflows specific to the type of delivery. And we support this all from the same mobile and web app. Click the terms below to learn more about each workflow:
- Fuel Delivery: including transport, fleet fueling, commercial fuel, propane and home heat
- Lubricants: bulk and package lubes
- Chemicals: bulk delivery of various types of chemicals
