M3 Technology's Oil Refinery Scheduling and Blending Solution

• Summarizing multi-site schedule data across the supply chain to communicate among enterprise applications and to share with traders, petroleum schedulers, managers and enterprise personnel.
• Planning activities across the enterprise on a single user-interface to integrate data from multiple sources, improve data comprehension, and increase outcome visibility.
• Optimizing product movements in the supply chain to minimize costs.
• Scheduling feedstock receipts, processing unit operations, and product shipments to improve utilization of assets.
• Optimizing blends of feedstocks and products for multiple periods to comply with equipment limitations, improve yields, meet quality specifications, and deliver products on schedule.
• Scheduling receiving and shipping docks or terminals with considerations for constraints in weather, traffic, vessels, berths, and inventories.
• Integrating planning and scheduling activities in an enterprise solution to facilitate communication and enhance coordination and cooperation.