Enhancing Business & Operation Performance Through Process Automation

This book focuses on the improvement of business performance through process automation and solving security and fraud challenges - in the oil and gas marketing sector - using management information systems. This system allows loading managers to manage the activities surrounding fuel loading, tickets management, marketer and driver management, truck management and inventory management, operation reporting and transmission, etc. It addresses designing and implementation of the systems in order to cater for the seamless operation of truck loading from yard to loading bays, prevention of multi-usage of a single ticket, registration of trucks and its managers, matching of registered trucks to a marketer and its driver and routes, reconciliation of programmed tickets against loaded product and stock balance. It provides visibility and transparency to stakeholders into the loading activities and operation audits. It also provides a couple of design and insights into the development of the aforementioned application for those seeking to venture into the business of data acquisition, storing, processing and visualization.