aspenONE®

Supply &Distributionfor Refining &Marketing

Maximize profitability

by increasing operational

visibility and improving

asset utilization for

petroleum companies

Overview

aspenONE Supply and Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides an

integrated enterprise solution for petroleum supply chain management,

enabling hundreds of simultaneous users to visualize market demand,

pinpoint inventory trouble spots, and proactively schedule supply chain

movements to discover the most profitable distribution, exchange, and

inventory plan. AspenTech is the market leader in delivering innovative

solutions to solve petroleum supply chain challenges.

The Challenge: Accurate Planning in a Complex,Dynamic Market

Petroleum companies operate most profitably when inventory and

distribution aligns with market demand. The crux of the challenge is in the

complex petroleum supply chain, characterized by a proliferation of

grades, multiple divisional silos, global operations, and opportunities to

buy, make, sell, exchange, or trade crude and products. Successful

companies are those who focus on:

• Maximizing asset utilization while minimizing costs and improving

customer service

• Integrating the complete supply chain including integration of refinery

operations with the distribution network

• Mitigating the risk associated with lack of demand visibility and supply

volatility

• Improving efficiency with standardized business processes

aspenONE® Supply & Distribution for Refining &Marketing

The aspenONE S&D Solution

aspenONE Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing provides a comprehensive, enterprise solution for

optimizing the petroleum supply chain, including managing terminal demand, scheduling crude and

product movements, monitoring inventories at thousands of worldwide locations, and scheduling

distribution to retail and commercial customers. It includes pre-built integration with SAP R/3 and other

ERP systems and supports data visualization, enterprise-level reporting, and alert messaging.

Built exclusively for the petroleum industry, the complete S&D solution leverages AspenTech’s integrated,

world-class optimization technology to identify the most profitable distribution, exchange, and inventory

plan. Core components include:

• Aspen Collaborative Demand Management, a web-based solution for organizational-wide collaborative

forecasting involving statistical analysis, trending, and seasonal adjustments to address demand

events.

• Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner, a powerful economic planning tool that solves multi-commodity,

multi-period transport optimization problems related to allocating resources (including transportation,

raw materials, sales demands, or processing facilities) and balances them to maximize profitability.

• Aspen Inventory Management & Operations Scheduling enables operations personnel to accurately and

effectively manage the hour-to-hour, day-to-day operational activities and conduct thorough analysis.

For crude and finished products, Aspen IMOS manages supply and demand balancing, inventory,

nominations and exchanges management, movement scheduling, and contract monitoring, while

providing decision-support tools to further manage the petroleum supply chain.

• Aspen Fleet Optimizer, fulfillment software for motor fuels, composed of automated stock

replenishment and transportation scheduling optimization for automated management of demand

forecasts, replenishment plans, and delivery execution. It is available with options to leverage voice and

web-based tools for collaboration.

“AspenTech has helped us achieve fewer kilometers per liter and less time per route for thousands of

deliveries...we are seeing savings in every category of our fleet operating costs.”

—Ken Dymock, General Manager, Petro-Canada

Function Benefit

Inventory Management and Visibility

• View current and future inventory levels

• Analyze planned, scheduled, and committedmovements

• Conduct physical and operational inventoryreconciliations from automated inventory feeds

Operations Scheduling and Movements Management• Plan, schedule, and monitor movements of crude andfinished products via multiple transportation modesfor both primary and secondary distribution

Contract Monitoring and Deal Balance Tracking• Track and match inventory movements to current andfuture buy-sell deals and exchanges

• Monitor the current and future balances of spot, term,and exchange deals; create and execute “book-outs”

Supply and Demand Balancing• Balance demand with refinery production and supplychain constraints by product, region, and location

• Develop scenarios and perform what–if analysis

Demand Forecast and Management• Create and maintain demand projections utilizingstatistical techniques

• Facilitate forecast collaboration with external partiesvia remote web-based access

Petroleum Supply Chain Integration• Integrate between refinery planning/scheduling anddistribution planning/scheduling

• Gain visibility into all demand sources, inventorylevels, and production for enterprise wide planning

• Provides comprehensive enterprise-wide view into currentand future inventory and movements

• Reduces inventory safety stock levels with improved demandand supply information

• Keeps operations synchronized with the distribution plan

• Reduces costs and improves operations associated withintegration between planning and scheduling

• Anticipates and takes advantage of supply and demandfluctuations

• Takes advantage of favorable inventory trading opportunities

• Manages contractual commitments

• Optimizes decisions to make, trade, or exchange crude orfinished product

• Optimizes crude and product margin while maximizingrefinery throughput

• Provides accurate projections of market demand withcollaboration from demand sources

• Supports best-practice demand management businessprocesses

• Ensures more accurate and timely plans/schedules

• Reduces IT integration and maintenance costs

• Supports enterprise-wide optimized plans vs. local orregional optimization

Worldwide Headquarters

Aspen Technology, Inc.200Wheeler RoadBurlington, MA 01803

phone: +1-781-221-6400fax: +1-781-221-6410info@aspentech.com

EMEA Headquarters

AspenTech Ltd.C1, Reading Int’l Business ParkBasingstoke RoadReading UKRG2 6DT

phone: +44-(0)-1189-226400fax: +44-(0)-1189-226401ATE_info@aspentech.com

APAC Headquarters

AspenTech - Shanghai3rd Floor, North WingZhe DaWang Xin Building2966 Jin Ke RoadZhangjiang High-Tech ZonePudong, Shanghai201203, China

phone: +86-21-5137-5000fax: +86-21-5137-5100apac_marketing@aspentech.com

aspenONE Supply & Distribution for Refining &Marketing

aspenONE Supply & Distribution for Refining & Marketing is part of AspenTech’s integrated aspenONE

solutions for energy companies. AspenTech’s aspenONE solutions are designed to align with the key

industry business processes, providing manufacturers the capabilities they need to optimize operational

performance, make real-time decisions, and synchronize the plant and supply chain.

About AspenTech

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing—including oil and

gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other industries that manufacture and produce products

from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement

best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. As a result,

AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs and become

more energy efficient. To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers rely on AspenTech to

achieve their operational excellence goals, visitwww.aspentech.com.

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Integrated Petroleum Supply Chain Optimization with aspenONE for Refining &Marketing

The aspenONE S&D for R&M solution workflow highlights the integrationrequired between the refinery and the distribution system to optimize margins.