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SIMTO® Dock Manager

SIMTO Dock Manager is an integrated capability for our enterprise level planning and scheduling system. Dock Manager automatically schedules the ships and vessels at the dock. The system considers many factors which may impact the terminal operation including berth/jetty constraints, traffic congestion, weather conditions, terminal inventory, terminal send out rates, contractual limit, cargo arrival schedule and facility maintenance. SIMTO Dock Manager has the ability to visualize the future for generating a schedule for the cargos arriving at the jetty or berths.

The automatic scheduling technology addresses major activities at the dock such as:
  • Automatically choose docks/berths.
  • Automatically assign receiving tanks
  • Automatically check for constraint violations before inbound and outbound transits
  • Automatically calculate delays
SIMTO Dock Manager facilitates inventory management and reduces costs by minimizing demurrage across feasible schedules while considering active constraints including the berth or jetty and channel traffic.
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Delivering Sustainable Value

M3 Technology's SIMTO Dock Manager can help users achieve safe and profitable operations by predicting the outcomes against all the constraints in the model. The impact of any vessel or tank property change and parameter change can be simulated. SIMTO Dock Manager can save users money by tracking and managing vessel and tank inventories. It tells the schedulers the exact time window to schedule inbound and outbound traffic and to unload ships and at what rate. Tank underflow/overflow risk and demurrage can be significantly reduced. SIMTO Dock Manager can also help user plan for the long-term. Users can easily develop annual plans by month and monthly plans by days. SIMTO Dock Manager empowers the user to evaluate and choose new or price advantaged feedstock available in the market and to evaluate its compatibility with existing feedstock and the processing units and schedule receipts. SIMTO Dock Manager gives users the flexibility to simulate the whole terminal operation or just simulate one single process unit. Users can easily change operation parameters through an interface window to evaluate the impact of different operation conditions and to apply it to the real world production. SIMTO Dock Manager provides the user the ability to prepare for and adapt to daily supply changes and supply strategy changes fast.
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