Downstream distribution

Optimizing efficiencies and resources

Delivering the right products to the right customers at the right time is critical to the success of downstream retailers. The challenge is to drive efficiencies across the entire distribution supply chain and effectively manage orders, stock and deliveries, as well as transport assets.

With decades of oil and gas expertise and a complete understanding of the distribution life cycle, CGI works with major downstream companies worldwide to optimize distribution processes, workflows and systems for improved service, performance and profits.

What we offer

CGI’s CROSS, an advanced decision support system that covers order fulfillment, stock management, distribution planning and daily scheduling. Unique features of CROSS include the following:

• High flexibility and scalability (can be applied to multiple operations and tailored to meet the changing needs of dealers, tankers and consumers in all major countries)
• Use of tank dip, sales and projected exceptional sales data to create alternative orders
• Digitized maps with bi-directional speed assignment to calculate times and distances between delivery sites and depots to optimize delivery scheduling on a day-to-day basis
• Detailed depot/delivery site data
• Functionality that regulates the peaks and troughs in demand while ensuring that service stations maintain adequate stock
• Legal rules and vehicle data to determine constraints
• Complex mathematical routines to optimize data usage

CROSS is supported by CGI’s end-to-end IT services, including business consulting, systems integration services, business process services and IT outsourcing services.

The value we deliver

Successfully implemented worldwide, CROSS enables downstream retailers to achieve the following competitive advantages:

• Streamlined, efficient order administration
• Efficient distribution of multiple fuel products per tanker-truck
• Reduced distribution costs
• Improvements in scheduling flexibility and workload balancing
• Optimized use of your own and third-party vehicle fleets
• Reduced fixed and variable transport costs
• Reduced stock holding at customer sites
• Minimized risk of run outs
• Consistent fulfillment of agreed service levels
• Expanded service offerings
• Improved profit margins

Why CGI?

CGI’s delivers end-to-end downstream distribution services and solutions to a wide range of industries, including oil and gas. We’ve successfully improved the distribution supply chains and operations for major downstream oil and gas companies across the globe.

One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, for example, has achieved significant improvements across its distribution supply chain through CROSS. Although the company had automated distribution processes, the processes had become inefficient and expensive to maintain. It made the decision to develop a next-generation distribution system and chose CGI as its technology partner. CGI developed CROSS in close collaboration with the company, and the system has been in successful use by it and other major companies in more than 40 countries for the past 15 years.