SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC) announced today that
Andeavor, a Fortune 150 highly integrated marketing, logistics and
refining company, is realizing excellent results from its Teradata
Analytic Platform. Andeavor operates 10 refineries with a combined
capacity of approximately 1.2 million barrels per day in 18 states,
mainly the mid-continent and western United States. The use of the Teradata system
radically accelerates information processing, saving the refining
business millions of dollars a year.
The refining business platform has many uses, including
inventory management: it consolidates inventory information
and integrates data so that inventories can be tallied immediately
with the push of a button. The accuracy with which this inventory
value can be determined is critical to the company's credit line,
and the rates which are charged for access to it.
"We started with one project and we now have over 30 projects
that have been integrated on the Teradata platform," said
David Brand, Manager, Business
Intelligence, Western Refining (renamed Andeavor). "Our analytics
platform gives us an integrated, holistic view of the business and
allows users to see sales and customer activity across three
systems -- as one – in near-real time. This is exactly the kind of
business outcome we had hoped that analytics technology would
enable."
Brand said that Andeavor's previous data platform only allowed
refining operations teams to see performance of key plan vs. actual
metrics for Liquid Volume Recovery (LVR) in dollar value - after
the close of the accounting month, usually 8-12 days into the month
following. Today, by integrating the data in today's analytic
platform, the high-speed performance of Teradata now gives refining
operations decision-makers their critical business reports in near
real time.
For instance, there may be as many as 850 railcars of rolling
inventory at any given moment, Brand said, and before the Teradata
platform was deployed, this inventory was not being as precisely
recorded or continuously quantified as an asset. The platform now
provides continuous updates on Refining Operations.
The Teradata Analytic Platform also supports detailed
Environmental Reporting and Regulatory Compliance, and by fusing
multiple data sources, creates a self-service environment enabling
Refining Operations to analyze and present blending, inventory,
receipts and shipment information in any manner they wish. Using
sensor data, the data ecosystem is ramping up for Machine Learning
and Predictive Analytics. Finally, the platform supports Retail
Propensity, Customer Loyalty, LP Tuning, and Predictive
Maintenance.
"We are now moving into advanced analytics," Brand said. "This
involves predictive maintenance and machine learning. Our goal
state is to have a data-driven tool that the refinery engineers can
go into the system and say, I need to make X barrels that meet
New Mexico standards, and then the
system will look at our interaction coefficients and inventory -
then deliver. We are not there yet, but that is our goal state. We
have other exciting plans also, including multi-level KPI
dashboards; self service; cloud storage, which is now in progress;
mobility platforms and more data from more sources."
The company was a recipient of a Teradata EPIC Award for
Operational Excellence in 2014. The business was recognized for
"improving operations, such as forecasting, inventory management or
supply chain visibility, asset monitoring, sustainable business
practices and resource optimization."
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