OpenTAS® is the integral administration and dispatch system for the oil, gas and chemicals industry.
OpenTAS optimises and automates the logistic and administrative processes within the oil & gas downstream industry (tank farms, refineries), especially in terms of terminal management, transportation, distribution and service station replenishment.
OpenTAS ensures rapid, transparent, secure and above all, cost-beneficial processes. The IT landscape is simplified, IT and maintenance costs are reduced and the TAS system is seamlessly integrated into SAP providing real-time data from the tank to the final delivery point. This enables a flexibility level and creates the possibility to react quickly and efficiently to changes.
Key benefits at a glance:
- Reduces operating costs, manpower and time
- Achieves excellent distribution performance
- Simplifies IT-landscape, solves communication and interface problems
- Optimizes Supply Chain and increases profits
- Increases security and achieves regulatory consistency
- OpenTAS offers all of the operative components for a complete end-to-end supply chain management (SCM) solution for all means of transport: truck, train, ship and pipeline
Best Practices: Terminal Operation Processes
Product movement:
- Pipeline / ship / railcar / tank-to-tank transfers
- Tank to pipeline / ship / railcar / tank trucks
- Vapour recovery unit
- Massive transport planning
- Loading / unloading facility scheduling
- Load / unload planning
- Handling of pickups
- Load / unloading execution
- Equipment and services planning
- Service order handling
- Measurement planning per product
Product storage:
- Planning of available storage
- Sales of storage facility
- Inventory per tank / customer
- Volume accounting per tank / customer
- Strategic stocks handling
- Booking by load and by delivery
- Booking of gains & losses per tank / customer
- Customs / tax handling
- Contract handling
- Credit checks
- Services accounting and invoicing
- Stock reports per day / week / month / year
- Daily movement reports per customer
