Sep 19, 2017 | San Diego

Andeavor’s Teradata platform delivers key stock perception on demand and leads to vital enterprise financial savings

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) introduced as we speak that Andeavor, a Fortune 150 extremely built-in advertising, logistics and refining firm, is realizing glorious outcomes from its Teradata Analytic Platform. Andeavor operates 10 refineries with a mixed capability of roughly 1.2 million barrels per day in 18 states, primarily the mid-continent and western United States. Using the Teradata system radically accelerates info processing, saving the refining enterprise tens of millions of {dollars} a yr.

The refining enterprise platform has many makes use of, together with stock administration:  it consolidates stock info and integrates information in order that inventories could be tallied instantly with the push of a button. The accuracy with which this stock worth could be decided is vital to the corporate’s credit score line, and the charges that are charged for entry to it.

“We began with one challenge and we now have over 30 initiatives which were built-in on the Teradata platform,” mentioned David Model, Supervisor, Enterprise Intelligence, Western Refining (renamed Andeavor). “Our analytics platform offers us an built-in, holistic view of the enterprise and permits customers to see gross sales and buyer exercise throughout three methods — as one – in near-real time. That is precisely the type of enterprise end result we had hoped that analytics expertise would allow.”

Model mentioned that Andeavor’s earlier information platform solely allowed refining operations groups to see efficiency of key plan vs. precise metrics for Liquid Quantity Restoration (LVR) in greenback worth – after the shut of the accounting month, normally 8-12 days into the month following. Right this moment, by integrating the info in as we speak’s analytic platform, the high-speed efficiency of Teradata now offers refining operations decision-makers their vital enterprise stories in close to actual time.

As an example, there could also be as many as 850 railcars of rolling stock at any given second, Model mentioned, and earlier than the Teradata platform was deployed, this stock was not being as exactly recorded or constantly quantified as an asset. The platform now gives steady updates on Refining Operations.

 

The Teradata Analytic Platform additionally helps detailed Environmental Reporting and Regulatory Compliance, and by fusing a number of information sources, creates a self-service setting enabling Refining Operations to research and current mixing, stock, receipts and cargo info in any method they need. Utilizing sensor information, the info ecosystem is ramping up for Machine Studying and Predictive Analytics. Lastly, the platform helps Retail Propensity, Buyer Loyalty, LP Tuning, and Predictive Upkeep.

 

“We are actually transferring into superior analytics,” Model mentioned. “This entails predictive upkeep and machine studying. Our purpose state is to have a data-driven instrument that the refinery engineers can go into the system and say, I must make X barrels that meet New Mexico requirements, after which the system will take a look at our interplay coefficients and stock – then ship. We’re not there but, however that’s our purpose state. We’ve different thrilling plans additionally, together with multi-level KPI dashboards; self service; cloud storage, which is now in progress; mobility platforms and extra information from extra sources.”

 

The corporate was a recipient of a Teradata EPIC Award for Operational Excellence in 2014. The enterprise was acknowledged for “enhancing operations, comparable to forecasting, stock administration or provide chain visibility, asset monitoring, sustainable enterprise practices and useful resource optimization.”

 

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