Wholesale Fuels & Logistics
Master the Art and Science of Fuel Distribution with the Right Blend of Strategy and Technology
Volatile fuel prices combined with a rapidly evolving energy landscape make managing a wholesale fuels and logistics operation more complicated than ever before. On one hand, it’s critical to negotiate the right contracts with your suppliers along with purchasing methods, while also understanding when spot buys make sense. On the other hand, you need to always be looking for ways to serve new and existing customers while keeping your business running as efficiently as possible, mitigating risk, and providing superior customer service.
As a critical intermediary in the fuel distribution process, adding value is your most critical objective.
Keeping your own business profitable while maintaining your position as a valuable partner is a balancing act few wholesalers can manage without the right business alignment and supporting technologies. Through a customer-centric, data-driven approach to fuel procurement, distribution, invoicing, and reconciliation, you can effectively drive revenue and profitability with solutions that make you a better partner, a better vendor, and a better wholesaler overall.
With the Impact 21 approach to Wholesale Fuels & Logistics, you will:
Optimize business profitability and maximize margins by cutting costs and strategically increasing revenues.
Improve relationships with both suppliers and customers.
Generate efficiencies and realize the greatest value from new and existing software solutions and automation.
Drive strategic performance improvement through better analysis and decision making.
How We Help
Wholesale Fuel
Wholesale Fuel Systems, Processes, and Data
Be a Better Business Partner
With the high volatility and overall cost involved in the wholesale fuel sector, it is critical to have people, systems, processes, and data fully aligned and working harmoniously across the business and with clients and business partners. Small breaks in the process or a lack of automation can be very costly, not only to your financials but to your customer relations.
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Fuel Procurement, Pricing, & Contract Terms
The Devil is in the Details
Fuel procurement, pricing, and contract terms demand a continually fresh approach, or wholesalers risk falling into the status quo trap and losing ground to more proactive companies. As new products come to market, it is also key to keep informed about changes in the regulatory environment and consumer demand. A technology-driven approach can help you make the right nips and tucks to contract language while looking for additional buying opportunities that will generate significant financial gains for your business.
Supply Chain Management
Bring Supply and Demand Together
As a critical link between fuel producers and blenders, fuel retailers, commercial users, and fleet operators, you need to successfully manage the supply chain both upstream and down – including transportation and logistics – looking for every opportunity to reduce costs and optimize processes while successfully matching supply to demand. Continued landscape changes make it necessary to regularly review your strategy and approach and to leverage the right technologies to stay ahead of and respond quickly to change.
Accounting & Reconciliation
Automate and Optimize the Reconciliation Process
Fuel reconciliation can be a pain point at every step in the supply chain. When a wholesaler has a reconciliation problem, retailers have downstream service disruptions and reconciliation issues to resolve. Identifying the root cause and working cross-functionally to automate processes and permanently resolve issues will improve both customer relations as well as overall profitability.
Data Sources & Data Integration Assessment
Understand Your Business Better from End to End
A comprehensive data strategy is the first step in creating a single source of business performance truth. By assessing your current data ecosystem and establishing and implementing a plan to optimize it, your business moves toward better organization-wide decision making that will give a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Financial & BI Reporting
Bring Actionable Insights to the Surface
Wholesalers don’t need more data. They need more of the right data at the right time and in formats they can quickly understand. Establishing key metrics and the right analysis and reporting processes including proper visualization is critical to improving focus, empowering the right response, and driving overall profitability. It is also important to strike the right balance between data governance and specialized analysis.
Fleet Systems, Processes, and Data
Proprietary and Third-Party Fleet Card Strategy & Implementation
Build Volume and Loyal Business Customers to Drive Profits
Whether you operate sites or provide payment services to your customers, the right Fleet/B2B payment strategy is pivotal. A best-in-class offering should include both a proprietary partner and the right third-party provider to round out your offer.
Develop a strong payment and technology strategy, that incorporates integration planning, change management, payment product management, cost of acceptance, discount management, and reconciliation. The fleet payment space is changing rapidly. Do not leave volume on the table.
Fleet Management
Make the Most of Every Resource and Every Mile
Unlock the full potential of your fleet investment by implementing a holistic approach to fleet management. By integrating data from suppliers, customers, and sites, along with real-time asset information, effective human resources strategies, and scheduling software, you can ensure precise load assignments, timely deliveries, and optimal resource utilization across all routes.
Solutions Provider
Solutions Go to Market Strategy
Achieve Sustainable, Profitable Growth
Serve the right customers in the most profitable ways with a Go to Market strategy that empowers your business to optimize your solutions to deliver maximum value to the markets and customers you serve. From refining potential customer’s requirements and identifying and qualifying new opportunities to perfecting the pricing strategy, the right Go to Market approach helps you plan for and capture profitable growth.
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Our Wholesale Fuels & Logistics Experts
To learn more about how Impact 21 can help you with
Business & Technology Alignment, get in touch.
Gabe Olives
Alvin Fortson
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Staff Augmentation
Keep your business transformation on track.
It can be hard to find the right people with the right skill set for any job these days, and your customer-first business transformation initiatives are no exception. Whether you need talented developers and programmers, visionary IT specialists, business intelligence support, finance or accounting leadership, category managers, or loyalty experts, recruiting and onboarding the best talent takes time and resources you don’t have to spare.
Whether it’s an industry associate or one of our own well-qualified team members, we make sure you get the talent you need to keep moving forward.
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