SAP TSW introduction

SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench (T.S.W) is used to monitor current and future supply chain activity, including all trading, inventory, and scheduled movements.

1- TSW helps you manage the supply, demand, and transportation requirements in the midstream (crude, feedstocks, and gas transmission) and primary distribution (refined products) sectors for all bulk transports. It also helps you manage them throughout the complete process life cycle – from deal to cash, including planning, scheduling, and execution.

2- TSW integrates market demand information, planned and nominated bulk movements, production data, consumption forecasts, and replenishment forecasts. Open interfaces allow you to communicate nominations and confirmations in both directions with external partners, such as pipeline operators and customers.

3- SAP TSW incorporates a set of tools that work together and use the same master data.

4- Technically part of the SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio, TSW is completely integrated with the mySAP ERP solution and the SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) component. This integration means your planning, scheduling, and execution processes all run in the same landscape, guaranteeing data reliability, real-time data availability, data transparency, and the absence of data redundancy.

5- With TSW as a communication platform for you and your business partners, you create a foundation for collaboration all along the supply chain. Many different transaction screens and functions enable schedulers and others involved in supply chain operations to view and manage all relevant activities. They can also look ahead to build plans for the future and look back into the past to analyze history. This provides key decision-support capabilities for managing future operations.

6- TSW touches all aspects of the scheduler’s workflow, and it provides various integration and interface points to communicate with both internal and external systems and parties. All tools – from nomination to scheduling to freight contracts and ticketing – are integrated with one another, so you only have to enter data once. Because of the intuitive configuration of SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench and its master data settings, some data does not have to be entered at all because it can be inferred by the software. In addition, all information is fully transparent and made available in numerous formats across the full range of scheduling and shipping transactions.