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Oil & Gas

From Manual Silos to Global Synchronization: How an Oil & Gas Giant Slashed Demurrage and Operational Waste

Facing the high costs of fragmented planning and vessel delays? Discover how one of the world’s largest energy producers replaced disconnected spreadsheets with o9’s AI-powered "Digital Brain." Learn how they unified personnel, vessels, and materials on a single platform to optimize inventory turns sevenfold, improve forecast accuracy, and eliminate the data gaps driving demurrage costs.

This customer had highly manual and Excel-driven planning processes with data challenges and a lack of inventory visibility.

Sustainability impact

Demurrage — vessels are less frequently used, reducing transportation.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

The company was unable to keep an overview of all data and processes due to challenges in its data structures. These challenges led to a lack of a single source of truth.

Solution

With o9, they obtained the unique capability to have full visibility over sales, inventory, and supply chain planning on a single integrated, single source of truth, cloud native platform.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Excel
  • Legacy Systems

Key Functionalities Implemented

The o9 Enterprise Knowledge Graph was used to build demand, inventory optimization, and supply-knowledge models. This allowed for running the entire process in a single integrated platform without the need for further integration. o9 leveraged its open architecture by using live-streaming data integration (API’s, Azure, NiFi).

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • o9’s highly differentiated Enterprise Knowledge Graph brought all key functions together on one platform with full integration support.
  • o9’s functional expertise in solving business problems in the oil and gas industry.
  • o9 is the future-proof platform with continuous innovation in advanced analytics, NLP, solvers, etc.

KPI Impacted

  • Improved planning accuracy for both forecast and supply chain.
  • Inventory reduction.
  • Decrease in demurrage (Oil & Gas industry related, cost of unused ships and vessels)

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