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FuelQuest ForeSite™ IC (Inventory Control) helps fuel managers spot and resolve issues with theft, fraud, leakage, deliveries, gray loads, dispensing equipment, and operational errors that cause inventory variances. ForeSite IC tracks inventory, sales, and deliveries; and automatically calculates, alerts, and logs any events that are out of tolerance with acceptable inventory losses or gains. Available in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, ForeSite IC gives retailers the ability to account for each gallon of fuel from delivery to consumption and allows them to correct variance issues before they become expensive problems.
ForeSite IC collects inventory, delivery, and sales information from a variety of sources including ATGs, fuel management systems, order management systems, Point of Sale (POS), back-office systems, automated and manual file import, and manual entry. ForeSite IC analyzes this data accurately calculating and identifying current inventory position and variances (when the actual on hand inventory does not match expected "book" inventory levels). With user-configurable rules defining variance calculation and configurable thresholds for acceptable variance, fuel managers can tailor ForeSite IC inventory policies to their particular business requirements.
Key features:
- Variance Rules - Customizable rules for calculating daily, weekly, and monthly variance at the tank or grade level, and multiple sites
- Reporting - Comprehensive reports covering inventory, sales, deliveries, and variance over a specified time period
- Variance Exceptions - Early warning indicators of out of tolerance variance conditions and outdated inventory information
- Variance Drill Down - Inventory, delivery, and sales data captured via automated polling, scheduled import, or manual entry
- Inventory Adjustments - Ability to acknowledge, comment, assign reason code, and correct identified variances
- Business Period - Management of variance to a configurable time period with automated and manual workflow
ForeSite IC is built on the ForeSite Platform, a flexible technology framework that enables rapid deployments, enterprise-level scalability and availability, enhanced security, open integration, and mobile device access. ForeSite IC easily interfaces with FuelQuest Fuel Management System (FMS); third-party order management, back-office, and POS systems; and ERP applications. ForeSite IC is fully internationalized and localizable. ForeSite IC has native support for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese Vietnamese, Russian, and double-byte languages including Chinese and Arabic.
ForeSite IC offers the following benefits:
- Enables real-time tracking of inventory position
- Reduces fuel losses improving the bottom line
- Provides early alerting to potential issues with theft, fraud, leakage, delivery, dispensing equipment, and critical fuel operations
- Facilitates process improvement leveraging built-in metrics to measure, analyze, and improve fuel management processes
- Enables detection of gray loads, fuel from unauthorized suppliers
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