Intelligent Refining Execution Platform

A major integrated energy company executed an enterprise-wide transformation of its production execution model, replacing fragmented tools with a unified industrial platform integrating daily mass balance, scheduling, movement automation, cost analytics, and biofuel traceability across refining and petrochemical operations.
Control
Unified Production Governance
Resilience
Margin Integrity by Design
Clarity
One Physical–Financial Truth
Trust
Built-In Sustainability Compliance
From fragmented plant control to integrated production intelligence
Production relied on fragmented systems, manual processes, and disconnected data, limiting alignment between physical operations and financial performance amid rising volatility and regulatory pressure.
Objective
Establish a unified industrial core system capable of governing physical production, reconciling daily balances, automating movements, integrating cost visibility, and enabling biofuel traceability under a standardized corporate operating model.
Opportunity

Disconnected operational data limited visibility into losses, margins, and contractual exposures. Excel-based balances constrained scalability and auditability. Scheduling and execution operated in silos. Emerging biofuel regulations required certified traceability. A centralized production intelligence platform was required to ensure competitiveness and regulatory compliance.

Driving production transformation with outstanding capabilities

Together, NTT DATA and the customer, have developed a unique best-in-class solution combining industry leading best practices and consulting and tech-innovation DNA

Key Challenges
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Fragmented operational and financial data environments
Manual and non-standardized mass balance processes
Limited integration between planning and execution
Emerging regulatory requirements for biofuel traceability
Solution
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Designed and implemented an enterprise Production Execution System.

Unified tank management, movements, reconciliation, and inventory logic.
Established a single physical source of truth.

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Developed a corporate Daily Mass Balance engine.

Embedded mathematical reconciliation with controlled tolerances.
Automated daily closure and official publication workflows.

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Integrated scheduling, movements, and execution systems.

Connected planning tools with operational workflows.
Enabled structured approval flows and OMS execution integration.

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Embedded cost analytics and biofuel traceability capabilities.

Integrated operational data with financial systems.
Implemented certified sustainability balance and regulatory reporting modules.

Impact
Production is no longer a process to manage — it is an intelligence capability to master
  • Standardized production governance across industrial sites
  • Improved alignment between physical and financial data
  • Enhanced margin visibility at product and unit level
  • Enabled certified biofuel traceability and regulatory compliance
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