PROBLEMS & ISSUES:
In the downstream distribution of petroleum products, land transportation plays a vital role in transporting the
petroleum product from terminals to the Petroleum retail outlets. They impose a great deal of challenge and it’s a night mare to plan for milk run. Besides these safety involved in transportation of highly explosive cargo poses even greater challenge.
So, there were numerous concerns and they have been enlisted below:

Know where the Petroleum Tanker is
Safety of Driver
Safety of Cargo
Timely delivery
Fleet Maintenance
Reduction of Paper work
Commitment on a realistic time for Delivery
Trips/ Milk run completed for a day by a petroleum tanker
Dispatch based on real time location information
Pilferage
Alarming the Control room during exceptions
Operation Costs

COMPONENTS OF OUR SOLUTION:

Map with Instant Rendering
Sensors integrated with the in-vehicle hardware
Web based backend Fleet Management System
In-Vehicle Hardware ( Black boxes )

INFOTRACK’ APPROACH TO SOLUTION:
InfoTrack as a team chalked out a plan to help our customer to address their key issues / concerns that they had. With the vast experience of our team members in telematics space,
we brought in Sensors to capture key inputs from Fuel Bar, Top Lids, Seat belt etc. In short, we addressed every concern of our customer with a solution to them.
These are tabled below for a good understand of how the concerns were addressed.

Sl.No.	Concerns / Isssues	How InfoTrack Resolved	Benefits to the Customer
1	Know where the Petroleum tanker is	Dynamic Staus Report with current status shown on map and also tabular format	Helped to implement JIT ( just in time delivery )

2	Safety of Driver	Driving working hours monitored on real time basis & also second by second reporting when accident occurs	Helped to implement JIT ( just in time delivery ). Save on time & money

3	Safety of Cargo	Harsh Braking Sensor, Seat Belt Sensor, Panic Button, Overspeed Alert and many more.	Helped the customer to understand driving behavior, initiate driving discipline, minimize the incidence of accidents.

4	Timely Delivery	Expected Time of Arrival using prediction algorithm and current location is tracked through FMS system	Helped in minimizing stock out situations.

5	Fleet Maintenance	Odometer Reading captured remotely and settings for engine oil change, service etc triggers alerts when the vehicle reaches the set km's	Helped in mimizing the maintenance cost by atleast 20%. Minimize wear of tyre, initiate time preventive maintenance

6	Reduction of paper work	Drivers don’t fill trip sheets, No requirement of time sheets. Everything captured through wireless	Brought in a paper less concept and reduced unncessary time, efforts required in recording of details manually. Helped to increase the productivity of the drivers.

7	Commitment on a realistic time for delivery	Real time vehicle tracking system helped user to commit a realistic time for delivery.	Helped to improve the distribution business. Rush the supplied quickly & increased the level of customer satisfaction.

8	Trips/Milk run completed for a day by a petroleum tanker	All the base stations like Petroleum terminals and Petroleum retail outlets were defined in the system to generate reports with no. of trips completed by each truck	Helped to automate the planning, initiate incentive for drivers depending on trips, helps in evaluating demand Vs. supply, helped to understand the performance & utilization of its existing fleet. Helped planning to expand the fleet size.

9	Dispatch based on Real Time Information	Quick response time to replenishment of products in retail outlets as real time information helped in diverting the stock	Helped the supervisors to plan & schedule the trips better. Drivers don’t have to report where they are every now & then as the system automatically captured the details.

10	Pilferage	The Fuel Bars, Top lids of a Petroleum tanker was fitted with sensors to detect their opening/ closure. The system captured their activities remotely.	The fuel bar report, top lid report helped in achieving this objective of knowing when, where and how long was fuel bar and top lid was open & closed. This helped my customer to minimize pilferage.

11	Alarming the control room during exceptions	Easy user configurable settings like speed, route, trip, stoppage allowed system to trigger alerts in case if exceptions occured	Alarms helped in instant understanding of violations & helped supervisors to respond fast

12	Operation Costs	Journey report with Avg. fuel consumption & cost to the company helps in assimilating the cost of operations.	This also helped to understand operations cost in details and also helped in deciding the fleet to service selected outlets.