Bulk Logistics Automation in Oil, Gas, Energy and Process Industries

Margins are tightening, complexity is rising, and operational resilience has moved onto the board agenda. In bulk logistics the quantity that counts is measured physically at loading or unloading, not in SAP. Planned and actual rarely match, and finance waits for someone to reconcile the difference by hand.

This session looks at what happens when that gap closes. André Dohlen (SAP) and Thales Bonan (Implico) walk through bulk distribution across oil and gas, chemicals, agriculture and building materials, and show how SAP S/4HANA Secondary Distribution Management (SDM) and SAP S/4HANA Retail Fuel Network Operations (RFNO) automate reconciliation, dispatch, replenishment and settlement. Both are SAP-branded Solution Extensions running natively on SAP S/4HANA and aligned with clean core principles.

Topics covered: intelligent reconciliation, integrated dispatch management, continuous product replenishment, dealer and payment card settlement, wet stock management, and the AI capabilities Implico is developing with SAP.