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Complex Processes under control

(06/01/2007) Due to the significant enlargement of its production capacities and the consequent doubling of its stock of tank wagons the OMV Group was faced with the challenge of finding new ways for tracing these tank wagons. The OMV was one of the first companies in this sector which decided to bring more transparency into the planning and monitoring of its own tank wagon circulation by means of an innovative IT-solution. The OMV produces fuels in Germany, Austria and Romania and distributes them across Europe. In view of the increase in the production capacities and a volume of approximately 80.000 tank wagon transactions per year the manual organisation of the tank wagon management reached its limits. Therefore, inet-logistics, a company from Wolfurt, was instructed to develop and implement an IT-solution for the complete and cross-company tank wagon inventory management including an anticipatory tank wagon inventory planning. "inet-logistics convinced us because of the high flexibility of the solution, because of the verifiable efficiency and above all also because of its extensive experience in the transport sector. The fact that it is an open Internet solution is also an advantage, especially in the international context," explains Melitta Wadsack, Head of Department Strategic Logistics at the OMV, the reasons for choosing this provider.

It only took a few months to implement the solution suite logistics-server® by the software provider as an inventory managing tank wagon system. If required, the OMV can see with the aid of the new solution at short notice which tank wagon is located where, what is in the tank wagon and how much of it and when will it reach its destination. Through the newly won transparency it will be possible in the future to plan and control the respective processes in a much simpler and less complicated manner. One of the positive effects: the total stock of rented tank wagons can be reduced in the future after the manual planning which is also based on experience has been replaced by the new system. Then it will be also possible, for example, to limit the number of tank wagons which are kept in reserve for dealing with short-term transport peaks to the necessary minimum.