A Software Platform Set on Fueling Efficiency
Because fuel is a major expense in the aviation world, officials with
the FuelPlus Group say it is in an airline's best interest to seek an
efficient, streamlined fueling process to keep related costs as minimal
as possible.
Klaus-Peter Warnke, CEO at FuelPlus, explains that saving 2 to 3 percent on fuel costs can be equivalent to selling hundreds of thousands of passenger tickets when looking at an airline’s annual bottom line.
As a result, FuelPlus has taken a larger view on the entire aviation fuel management process, looking for ways to help its customer’s reduce operating costs.
“Fuel is something that is an enterprise-wide process for suppliers. When we look into the airlines, we have different activities around fuel,” Warnke says.
These activities include preparation processes, including both volume planning and budget planning. Then there are several tender activities to ensure that the fuel required for different locations is available. That leads to supply contracts, which are managed by supply chain operations, in order to deliver fuel product from refineries to the airports.
Later on, there are activities around operations, such as collecting fuel tickets and documentation of delivery of fuel into storage systems.
What’s more, airlines then need to handle accounting processes, such as calculating expected costs for the month, as well as checking and receiving invoices.
“Quite often, we see this organized in a way which is more based on silos – the planning department, the procurement department, an operations team and an accounting team working independent of each other, using their own products, using their own tools,” Warnke says. “That, obviously, leads to a lot of inefficiencies in managing fuel in a professional way.”
To improve workflow, FuelPlus provides its airline.ONE software, which has been implemented by more than 50 airlines. Among other features, the solution reduces fuel usage; cuts manual administration; increases internal efficiencies; and complies with audit and reporting guidelines.
“Aviation fueling is a quite complex process, which needs all the different companies, all the different entities, to work together to make it happen,” Warnke says. “Our vision at FuelPlus is to automate, and to bring efficiencies to this process.”
The CEO of FuelPlus points to automation as the most important feature of airline.ONE because of the productivity it can lend to staff during day-to-day operations.
“You want your people to become more efficient. You want to use their knowledge and release them for all the daily routine activities,” he says. “You want to use the knowledge of your people to do analysis, to look for new ways to provide fuel to the airline or find new processes that can save money.”
Warnke also notes that staying compliant with various regulations is vital, and is something airline.ONE provides.
“You want to make sure that all the different processes around tendering, contract management, accounting, invoice checking and payment are done to accounting standards and according to audit requirements,” he says, adding the appropriate software ensures checks and balances and implements controls.
airline.ONE is offered as software as a service (SaaS), which reduces the amount of setup required for customers. It can be hosted in the Cloud or in a FuelPlus data center. Further flexibility is provided by allowing customers to subscribe to standalone modules to automate specific processes.
Klaus-Peter Warnke, CEO at FuelPlus, explains that saving 2 to 3 percent on fuel costs can be equivalent to selling hundreds of thousands of passenger tickets when looking at an airline’s annual bottom line.
As a result, FuelPlus has taken a larger view on the entire aviation fuel management process, looking for ways to help its customer’s reduce operating costs.
“Fuel is something that is an enterprise-wide process for suppliers. When we look into the airlines, we have different activities around fuel,” Warnke says.
These activities include preparation processes, including both volume planning and budget planning. Then there are several tender activities to ensure that the fuel required for different locations is available. That leads to supply contracts, which are managed by supply chain operations, in order to deliver fuel product from refineries to the airports.
Later on, there are activities around operations, such as collecting fuel tickets and documentation of delivery of fuel into storage systems.
What’s more, airlines then need to handle accounting processes, such as calculating expected costs for the month, as well as checking and receiving invoices.
“Quite often, we see this organized in a way which is more based on silos – the planning department, the procurement department, an operations team and an accounting team working independent of each other, using their own products, using their own tools,” Warnke says. “That, obviously, leads to a lot of inefficiencies in managing fuel in a professional way.”
To improve workflow, FuelPlus provides its airline.ONE software, which has been implemented by more than 50 airlines. Among other features, the solution reduces fuel usage; cuts manual administration; increases internal efficiencies; and complies with audit and reporting guidelines.
“Aviation fueling is a quite complex process, which needs all the different companies, all the different entities, to work together to make it happen,” Warnke says. “Our vision at FuelPlus is to automate, and to bring efficiencies to this process.”
The CEO of FuelPlus points to automation as the most important feature of airline.ONE because of the productivity it can lend to staff during day-to-day operations.
“You want your people to become more efficient. You want to use their knowledge and release them for all the daily routine activities,” he says. “You want to use the knowledge of your people to do analysis, to look for new ways to provide fuel to the airline or find new processes that can save money.”
Warnke also notes that staying compliant with various regulations is vital, and is something airline.ONE provides.
“You want to make sure that all the different processes around tendering, contract management, accounting, invoice checking and payment are done to accounting standards and according to audit requirements,” he says, adding the appropriate software ensures checks and balances and implements controls.
airline.ONE is offered as software as a service (SaaS), which reduces the amount of setup required for customers. It can be hosted in the Cloud or in a FuelPlus data center. Further flexibility is provided by allowing customers to subscribe to standalone modules to automate specific processes.
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