The 10 Years’ Association of JK Tech with a Leading Energy Supply Chain Solutions Provider

The client is one of North America’s largest private companies and is an established leader in the petroleum marketing and fuel supply industries. Founded in 1957, the client provides comprehensive fuel supply, distribution, delivery, and dispensing solutions to customers through an integrated network of refiners, terminals, carriers, and retailers throughout North America delivering more than two billion gallons of fuel every year to clients throughout the continental United States.

The client’s legacy systems and manual means to implement business processes were inefficient and occasionally faulty to address the ever-changing demand of fuel supply and logistics with the changing times. Improvising customer satisfaction and offering real-time visibility of mission-critical information was desired for proactive decision-making. The entire IT landscape demanded a revamp. The challenges faced across different technological areas:

1. Dot Net

Earlier, the client was using a third-party Transportation Management System (TMS) to optimize freight cost and making route/shipment, which did not allow to track changes with accuracy which was affecting freight, supply and operations. In addition, there was no control over the master/transactional data update in the current system.

The authorization and authentication were scattered across multiple systems and hence a single change would affect all the applications and made the process more cumbersome. The performance and scalability of the legacy desktop-based progress application needed improvement in order to fulfill the entire business need for all their trading partners to purchase and sell fuel.

2. eFuel-Cut off Migration

The client used another system called eFuel that ran on legacy technologies and has several drawbacks e.g. Implementation of a new business model was hard on top of an existing application, slow performance and bugs. Since the existing platform had too many business applications, the migration was planned in segments so as to not affect the whole business and keep running old and new applications side by side. It gave rise to another issue as invoicing and transaction processing spanned over multiple apps between old and new models. This was time-consuming for business as they had to do setups in both old and new systems and both the system required data and application maintenance.

3. BizTalk

The complex IT systems were based on a number of bespoke applications and enterprise technologies to run their various lines of service. They desired an interface with customers, vendors, partners and suppliers for seamless order processing and fulfillment through integration with all external applications, with ERP systems of customers, vendors and suppliers.

4. MSBI-SSRS Reporting

Single Reporting Portal was desired to ensure that all orders are visible and report categorization can be performed based on user’s preference such as accounting, sales, etc. while handling cross-reference of same master available in legacy systems.

5. MSBI-ETL, Data Warehouse

Mapping and migrating legacy data to Entinuum system, B2B network created to handle vast amounts of transactional and operational data shared daily throughout the energy sector.
There was a huge volume of data in the legacy system and reports were generated based on the schema of the new system. Therefore, the legacy transactional and master data have to be transferred into that system so that data analysis can be carried out from a single source of data. Database Schema was different for both the systems so it was a big challenge to pull data from the legacy system and fit it into the schema of the current system.

6. SharePoint

MOC was looking for a collaborative platform where files and documents can be exchanged between various users of the department and their respective customers. In addition, the client was looking for a rich look and feel for their SharePoint on-prem portal with responsive design, to offer their customer mobile and tablet view. Another requirement was to access all their Reports, dot Net and Progress applications from a single location (SharePoint on-prem portal) with the single sign-on feature. MOC also sought a cloud-based solution with minimal development effort to support multiple databases (online and on-prem) for their few processes such as Order placement automation system, Onboarding system, etc.

The client aimed at simplifying the fuel supply and logistics. They were acknowledged as a trusted partner for the organizations in overcoming their challenges of energy procurement, logistics and supply.

To maintain their leadership in providing an innovative solution for energy procurement, supply and logistics challenges they were seeking an IT services partner to keep them consistent and competent in the market.

JK Tech aimed at revolutionized their IT landscape and simplifying their fuel supply and logistics across North America by improving services, quality and cost-efficiency in the past 10 years and has been successfully providing flexible and agile solutions that are aligned with disruptions in technology.