In today’s ever-evolving oil and gas landscape, terminal owners face numerous challenges, including:

• Optimization – reducing costs
• Digitalization – accessing more data for business intelligence
• Divestments and acquisitions – establishing stability and conformance across the enterprise
• Alternative fuels – answering the growing demand for energy transition
• Geographic expansion – growing globally across new markets

A Terminal Automation System (TAS) can help meet these demands, yet many organizations still rely on outdated, inflexible solutions. Upgrading your TAS is a significant decision, but the return on investment (ROI) can be substantial. Here are the top three reasons to upgrade to TMS7:

1. Higher productivity.

Optimizing terminal operations is crucial for reducing costs and enhancing efficiency. TMS7 introduces several productivity features that can save up to 20% in processing time:

• • Dashboards – monitor load rack status, meter usage, components, and stock data graphs
  • Smart links – save time by accesses related data, like driver records, without having to navigate to another screen
  • Batch mode – update multiple records quickly, using batch mode to re-assign all drivers to a new carrier, for example. Or remove a seasonal blend product from all your terminals
  • Templates and Cloning – increase efficiency and accuracy by creating pre-populated transactions templates for TMS7 users. Those users can then create new transactions by choosing the template or by cloning records to reduce data entry and errors.

TMS7 offers a variety of dashboards

TMS7 offers an easy-to-use transaction template builder to help you increase your team’s transaction efficiency and reduce errors

Think about how much time your team spends doing repetitive tasks like processing orders, researching driver issues, manually updating account screens. By using these TMS7 productivity features, your team can spend less time sifting through screens of data to reduce administration time and improve overall terminal efficiency and accuracy.

2. Increased security.

As digitalization grows, so does the risk of cyberattacks and unauthorized terminal access. TMS7 enhances data security through:

• High availability & disaster recovery – provides hypervisor level mirroring for a fully redundant environment, with no need for like-for-like hardware. In case of disasters, TMS7 can be back up and running in as little as 30 minutes
• User-Access Control – authenticates using Microsoft Active Directory or Oauth 2.0 for Google authentication. In TMS7, you can create user profiles and user groups with extensive role management options, without storing passwords locally
• Record level change history – enables users to run audit reports, highlighting the “who, what and when” for all changes made before and after any event to support security audits
• Linux architecture – separates the OS from the application, making security patching easier. Users can utilize additional 3^rd party tools to comply with their IT’s Linux security standards. Toptech Systems also offers a Cyber Security Compliance service to better protect a customer against Linux vulnerabilities

3. Enhanced features.

• OpenAPI – supports RESTful API, which is a standardized, secure and platform independent way to communicate data to your back office.
• Automated transaction import – tracks transactions that occur outside the terminal, such as Pipeline Transaction reports. Simply drag and drop the CSV file to populate the transaction. No need to manually create those transactions.
• Intuitive Workflow screens with data integrity feedback – steps users through a variety of daily activities, using field level error checking along the way to minimize training for new employees. And admins can customize all screens to hide irrelevant fields and pre-populate repetitive, standard information to help reduce errors and increase efficiency.
• Enhanced interoperability with Toptech’s ecosystem bringing value to the entire supply chain with inventory, transaction and master data.

Toptech Systems realizes that terminal owners are facing many challenges and need a terminal automation system that can respond to these changing needs. TMS7 is designed and supported in-house, with updates released on a continual basis. Since 1988, Toptech Systems has been committed to the industry and to helping our customers address this changing landscape.

For more information on upgrading your TAS to TMS7, contact our sales team to setup a demo.