Functionality
DTN TABS provides a method to deliver real-time electronic BOLs, and manage credit and product allocations for customers and trading partners at proprietary and third-party terminals. DTN TABS is quick to implement and provides a clear return on investment, employs with the ASP model, and interfaces with SAP and other ERP systems.
- DTN TABS authorizes or denies a customer trying to load fuel at the terminal based upon pre-defined controls, which reduces the risk of credit losses and/or inventory runs.
- An instant, up-to-the-minute view of rack demands helps you proactively manage supply and take quick action to capture new sales opportunities.
- With real-time loading information available on command, you can adjust sales strategies to fit the day’s demand, and manage inventory as well as prioritizing volume for yourself and your top customers. You can identify contract liftings to hedge positions, and calculate exchange positions to maximize your market value.
What can I do with DTN TABS?
With DTN TABS you can:
- Provide a method to deliver real-time electronic BOLs for timely billing, trading and marketing efforts.
- Reduce the work load for the terminal employees.
- Lower liability by putting control in the hands of the shippers and marketers.
- Fully support industry standards to ensure interoperability and optimization of the downstream supply chain.
- Reduce capital expenditures on proprietary internal systems.
- Cut time off the customer invoicing process to improve cash flow.
- Improve on-the-fly sales strategies by Marketing departments.
- Increase the effectiveness of risk management efforts in Trading departments.
- Optimize product inventory with Supply teams.
Features
| Feature Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Rack Marketer | DTN TABS Marketer allows Marketing customers to receive BOLs and use TABS to control allocations on their customers with the approval of the TABS Rack Marketer functionality. |
| TABS 3rd Party | DTN TABS 3rd party exchange exists when the ownership of product passes through more than one partner before reaching the ultimate buyer, with several layers of customer authorizations may be performed, producing multiple BOL records. Although there may be many partners involved, there is only one basic relationship - that of the seller to the customer. |
| Alerts | Alerts allow you to manage the DTN TABS system by sending information through email or SMS about system behaviors, terminal communication, customer loading issues or even information about product and credit allocations can be monitored. |
| Supply Event | Supply Event Notification provides information about both planned and unplanned terminal disruptions to the individuals who need to know. This allows them to react to potential issues before they become a crisis and impact the bottom line. |
| Forecast | Forecasts provide a means of controlling allocations by using past lifting history to continually adjust an allocation’s next refresh amount. New monthly forecasts are generated on a schedule at the beginning of the month, allowing time for sellers to adjust amounts, with last-day-of-the-month processing to update associated allocation refresh amounts. Forecasts are created based on the terminal/terminal group, product/product group/product family, and consignee/consignee group level, like allocations. |
| Truck Sizes | The Truck Size setup page ensures that a customer cannot over lift their contract by a specified allowance. |
| GPOs | A Global Product Override (GPO) is a quick way to add product to a product allocation that has been exhausted or nearly exhausted. This helps you keep traffic moving at the rack if you have the product available. |
| Enhanced Credit | Enhanced Credit allows you to manage credit allocations in real time in your local currency, factor in current day fuel prices, taxes and non-invoiced BOLs into the available credit calculation. |
| BOL Delivery | TABS BOL Push offers near real-time delivery of TABS BOLs to a customer’s API endpoint. BOL Push is in JSON format/Rest. |
| Reports | DTN TABS provides a wealth of reports to help zero in on the information you need. |
| Allocations | DTN TABS Product Allocations control your customers based on factors such as supply needs (product) which make it possible to perform controls at a specific product family or product group (class of products). |
| Material Code Mapping | Material code mapping allows customers to define products using their own product codes from their ERP instead of using PIDX. |
| Load Assistance Dashboard | The Load Assistance Dashboard (LAD) provides information on product and credit allocations, details on BOLs, and recent transactions from rack. The LAD simplifies and reduces the time needed to troubleshoot a loading issue at the rack by combining data that was previously only available by running multiple reports. |
| MasterData | The Master Data Module allows your ERP system to communicate with TABS to add, update and delete ShipTo, SoldTo and Credit account information. |