The product is aimed at:
- Maximizing truck utilization and driver productivity while maintaining customer service
- Optimizing onsite fuel inventory levels
- Minimizing overhead expenses through automation and better communication
Useful Terms
Company: The company name where this account belongs. CStoreOffice® will let the user keep track of all financial activities even for multiple stations belonging to different companies. This is why the user can assign accounts to different companies and stations/departments. It is a mandatory to assign each account to a single company.
Fuel Distribution Company: Fuel related branch of your company set up at Settings > Fuel Distribution > Preferences.
Truck: A large, heavy motor vehicle used for transporting goods, materials, or fuel in our case.
Trailer: A container for transporting different types of fuel.
Compartment: A part of the trailer. Trailer can contain of numerous compartments of different sizes for carrying various types of fuel.
Truck Terminal: A facility where freight is unloaded from interstate trucks and/or intermodal trailers and containers carried on the railroad and loaded onto local delivery trucks.
Bulk Terminal: A facility used primarily for the storage and/or marketing of petroleum products, which has a total bulk storage capacity of 50,000 barrels or more and/or receives petroleum products by tanker, barge, or pipeline'.
Station/Class: A station and/or department name where this account belongs. Station/department does not have to be assigned to every account. The System will treat unassigned accounts as company consolidated, such as “consolidated bank account” for example.
Subjobber: Or petroleum marketer, is a person or company that purchases quantities of refined fuel from refining companies (e.g. BP, Shell, Exxon), either for sale to retailers (e.g., gasoline stations), or to sell directly to the users of those products (e.g., home heating oil to homeowners, lubricating oils to industrial operations or repair shops, jet fuel to FBOs, etc.). In essence, the jobber acts as the "middleman" between the company that refines the petroleum products and those that either use them or market them at retail prices.
Oil Company: A company that provides fuel to fuel supplier.
Distributor’s Vendor: A fuel supplier the fuel distributor purchases fuel from.
Fuel Vendor: A fuel distributor purchasing fuel from the supplier and selling it to the customers – gas stations.
Location: Station.
