Pain Areas

Start
Fixed Order (Exchange Agreement or Major Customer delivery) Daily Opening stock of product grades at each location (FAX/email)

Get Monthly distribution Plan from COIS

Scheduling Inputs

Generate daily Schedule for running week

Distribution Visibility

Prioritize & Rescheduling

View Scheduling Result

Yes Better Communication

Is there a stockout condition at any Depot?

No Send Schedule to Terminal coordinators Monitoring & Reporting

Re-Scheduling
Re-Scheduling

Yes

Inventory Decisions Yes

Is it 21st of Month? OR Has Planning Changed?

No

Any Crisis or Operational problems ? No End

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Production Scheduler Benefits

 Operation of the refinery closer to its optimum modes  Improved response to market opportunities  Quicker, better scheduling response to sudden changes in refinery, Mktg. liftings, or crude arrivals  Reduction of internal stock transfers  Reduction of Intermediate stocks  Improved guidance to the processing and blending units Reduction in Quality giveaway

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Continuous Improvement
 For improvement, routine measurement and continuous corrective feedback at each stage of planning/scheduling process:

F
Mothly supply plan

Initial monthly supply plan

E D C B A
3

Finalised monthly supply plan

Weekly refinery operating plan

Finalised weekly operating plan

Weekly refinery look ahead schedule

Finalised weekly schedule

Daily process & blend schedule

Finalised daily schedule

Unit operations & process controls

Actuals
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Current Status & Path Forward

 PS training was organized from 25th to 28th Aug10 at Pune

 E-III/E-IV products, MSQ unit and new stream routings configured in the model,  Currently PR PS administrator is executing the input data interfaces, running the model, analyzing the penalties/errors & outputs and doing necessary corrections in the model based on the outcome M/S HAIL personnel are providing necessary assistance to the PR PS administrator in executing these jobs

 PS administrator will take daily cycle run and simultaneously learn independentally doing the required corrections/tuning in the model, analyzing and validating PS output instructions along with all PS attributes

 The administrator will be able to ensure that the model output is in executable form and will put the model output instructions for approval for execution

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Path forward..requirements
Requirements:
Manpower : One dedicated manpower (for initial one month for whole day but later on only for 2 to 2.5 hrs on daily basis for daily cycle run)

Server: One advanced server as per specs given by M/S HAIL, which will take lesser time for daily cycle run

Input data formats consistency: Ensuring consistent formats of MPPL, dip sheet etc. Mktg. demand data should come in reqd format (available with PS administrator).

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