Core OAS software already provides excellent detailed functionality to support shipping operations and oil accounting at refinery /chemical plants and hydrocarbon storage facilities. Whilst its strength has been as a transactional system to record and validate data as part of this business process, with OAS Planner this can be extended further to include storage terminals. In this way, OAS becomes the repository for both actual stocks and planned stocks/shipments to facilitate inventory monitoring and planning across the organisation and through the distribution network of refineries, terminals and storage units. OAS Planner provides a rich graphical experience for the user and, by virtue of its focus on the specific details of refining and storage activity, including features in a natural integrated logistics process not usually found in either enterprise or process control layer applications.

• Consolidate actual and planned inventory for refineries and terminals into a single database to facilitate scenario planning for replenishment, compliance with compulsory stock obligations, and provision of key information for central organisational groups.
• Reduce communication by phone, fax, and email between the parties, and aims to eliminate errors caused by the exchange of key information through locally-managed spreadsheets (and the associated time and effort spent in maintaining them).
• Projected stock data can be loaded via open web service interface or via Microsoft Excel™ .
• Track the ownership of actual and projected stock levels.
• Ability to quickly and easily create multiple shipments from macro-planning data at the click of a button.
• Track inventories at a group level.
• Work with multiple draft planning scenarios independently before applying to the database.
• Straightforward reporting of the planned inventories, such that holdings of compulsory stocks can be accurately checked, and notification rules set to detect any projected scenarios in which compulsory stock levels would not be met.