Aspen Inventory Management and Operations Scheduling™

Easily Manage inventory and visibility. Aspen IMOS provides enterprise-wide visbility into current and future inventory movements, allowing the user to view inventory as well as planned, scheduled, and committed movements.		Effectively handle operations scheduling and movements. Plan, schedule, and monitor movement of crude and finished products via multiple modes of transport. Respond better and faster to events outside operational control and cut down on supply chain disruptions.

Track contract monitoring and deal balance. Create and match inventory movements to buy-sell deals. Monitor the running balance in spot, term, and exchange deals and create and execute book-outs.		Balance Supply and demand. Access aggregated marketing demand forecasts and refinery production schedules. Identify long/short balances by product, region, and location. Develop scenarios and perform what-if analysis.

Efficiently integrate software. As a supply chain integration hub, Aspen IMOS integrates with Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager, Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain Planner, and Aspen Petroleum Scheduler, as well as with many third-party systems.		Optimize inventory. Manage system-wide inventory levels with the ability to view forward inventory positions and consolidated trading and supply inventories against real-time positions. Vary inventory positions based on market conditions, allowing for immediate impact to working capital and improved ability forecast.

Improve resource efficiency. Reduce time required to perform activities through process streamlining and automation of manual activities.		Reduce demurrage cost. Improve ability to plan, simulate, and evaluate characteristics that affect schedule disruptions. Enable users to proactively identify potential conflicts and make changes to avoid demurrage costs.

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