Terminal Operations Management

Poor receipt and processing of terminal nominations and/or orders can lead to stock outs, disputes, penalties and a host of other impacts that can reflect badly on the terminal’s ability to meet customer commitments. Emerson provides solutions to ensure communications between commercial and operational functions remain seamless and transparent to all stakeholders in the terminal, ensuring commitments agreed are commitments delivered.

Effective order processing requires good planning and scheduling to maximize asset utilization and customer requests.  Failure in either aspect can result in costly delays, customer service issues and even penalties.  Emerson provides planning and scheduling solutions to identify equipment availability, conflicts and potential solutions, minimizing the impacts to customer requests and helping maintain an efficient flow of products through the terminal. 

The management and tracking of inventory and inventory transactions can be critical to terminal operations, but manual and unreliable paper-based systems can lead to lost and inaccurate records, customer billings and disputes.  Emerson inventory management solutions offer a single system of record for all physical and book inventory transactions, eliminating delays and allowing for faster inventory reconciliation, elimination of disputes and accurate first-time billings.

The movement of materials within a terminal can be an inherently-hazardous process, and the potential for mistakes can lead to product contamination, reprocessing, lost opportunities and impacts to customer service. Emerson provides made-for-purpose automated process control modules that eliminate error-prone manual work processes and optimize the movement of products throughout the terminal.

The handling and storage of hazardous liquids is inherently risky, without the appropriate safety and security processes and controls, small issues can rapidly become terminal-wide issues resulting in considerable loss of property and significant life and environmental impacts.  Emerson provides comprehensive systems and solutions to rapidly detect and prevent safety issues from even occurring, resulting in a safer environment driven through automation and operational piece of mind.

The success of terminal operations is tied directly to the health and reliability of available assets, which is adversely affected by a retiring workforce and under-trained resources.  Using Emerson device diagnostics and asset management systems, you can provide assurance to operations that assets are performing as required to meet the daily needs of the terminal while deploying resources to fix real issues and not just perform rounds looking for them.