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Fuel Distribution

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. Fuel Distributors are increasing in size and complexity of their business. Today bulk fuel and lube distribution, retail (service stations for both fuel and shopping items) and sometimes transport are all part of the business. While in the past these requirements have been met by diverse systems, today the Advanta Fuel Distributors package provides for all these needs in the one state-of-the-art software solution.

In addition Advanta Software has released an automated fuel delivery solution, designed to keep your mobile workforce connected to your backend office connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more information please see ATLAS eZfill

Features of Advanta's Fuel Distributors’ package

Advanta’s Fuel Distributors’ Package is an industry specialization of Advanta’s ATLAS product range. It therefore covers all the common requirements of distribution companies. In addition it caters for the special needs of the Australian Fuel Distribution industry.

Some of these features are ;-

• Manages the bulk movement of fuel throughout the supply chain from depot, through trucks to distribution points
• Manages storage locations and inventory
• Manages multiple truck compartments
• Processes the movement of all fuel into and out of warehouse and trucks
• Full load documentation is produced


• Provides comprehensive interfaces to the common retail POS systems
• Interfaces to ONQ POS
• Interfaces to Breeze POS
• Caters for Fuel Cards


• Caters for the complex pricing and costing used in the Fuel Distribution 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 PDE
• Accepts actual deliveries from the trucks
• Automated processes fully update all data into Advanta 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

Benefits of Advanta's Fuel Distributors package

The automation of the Fuel distribution operations using the Advanta Fuel Distributors package can yield substantial benefits to its users. Some of the benefits reported by current users include

• 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 through manual interfaces

 
• Improvement in management information leading to better decision making

 

Advanta's history of success

Advanta’s Fuel Distributors package was developed by its dealer Pacific Software over the past decade. It was incorporated into Advanta’s ATLAS range following the merger of Pacific’s Logistics operations in June 2005 (more information).

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

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