A transport is booked for a 4 a.m. diesel load. Overnight, allocation changes at the terminal. The rack may still be running, but the customer may no longer have enough gallons available for the planned lift. Dispatch needs to decide whether to send the truck. Sales needs to know which accounts are affected before the
A wholesale fuel buyer may be able to see a rack price online, but that does not necessarily mean the buyer can place an order against it. The executable price may depend on the customer’s agreement, product, terminal, volume, and timing. The transaction may also need to reflect contract gallons, account permissions, or other commercial
Online wholesale fuel ordering gives fuel suppliers, marketers, and their customers a digital way to manage fuel purchasing transactions. These frequently asked questions cover how digital commerce works in wholesale refined fuels from pricing and contracts to self-service ordering, system integration, and order management. What should fuel suppliers look for in an online ordering platform?
A week can be a long time in the fuel business. In April, less than 24 hours after the Strait of Hormuz was declared open to commercial shipping, Iran reversed course and vessels attempting to pass through came under fire. Traffic fell again through a waterway that normally carries about one-fifth of global oil flows,
Market volatility isn’t going away. Leaders from DTN, NextField Solutions, and SIGMA explain why resilience depends on connected operations, faster execution, and better decision-making. For downstream fuel businesses, volatility is no longer a temporary disruption to manage until conditions return to normal; it’s the operating environment. During the webinar, Building Resilience: Navigating Volatility in Downstream
Four patterns every supply shock reveals about downstream operations and why teams are still forced to react instead of respond. Closures of key shipping lanes like the Strait of Hormuz put a global squeeze on fuel supply. In 2022, the war in Ukraine rewrote the book on diesel supply. COVID-19 collapsed and whipsawed demand in
Fuel markets have always been dynamic, but recent weeks have brought a level of volatility that is forcing many organizations to take a closer look at how they approach fuel procurement. Sharp price swings, rising diesel costs, and continued geopolitical uncertainty have created an environment where timing matters just as much as price and where
New platform gives sales and marketing teams a shared operational system to improve reliability, execution, and customer outcomes DTN, a global data and technology company, today announced the launch of Fuel Operations Hub, an enterprise operations platform for the refined fuels market to improve cross-team collaboration and replace manual data gathering and analysis for faster,
Over the past several months, my team and I, alongside AI and technology experts, have engaged in candid conversations with energy executives across the downstream value chain. These roundtables weren’t about showcasing innovation for innovation’s sake. They were about listening. What emerged was a grounded, pragmatic view of what it really takes to make AI
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