This multinational oil and gas company is among the world’s largest companies out of any industry. This $381 billion company has over 86,000 employees worldwide and a presence in more than 70 countries.

CHALLENGE

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The organization lacked a unified view of inventory across its global operations, leading to inefficiencies, rising costs, and inconsistent service levels.

Decisions were made at regional or site levels without full visibility, resulting in stock imbalances, frequent stockouts, and excess inventory. At the same time, limited insight into asset availability forced teams to rely on urgent shipments, driving up operational costs and impacting performance.

• No real-time, global visibility into inventory and asset availability
• Region-specific decision-making leading to stockouts and overstocking
• Suboptimal inventory levels impacting On-Time In-Full (OTIF) performance
• High holding costs and increased reliance on expedited shipping
• Fragmented data limiting effective planning and decision-making

SOLUTIONS

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Aligned Automation implemented a real-time global asset visibility and optimization platform to enable proactive, data-driven decision-making.

The solution unified data across all sites and applied predictive and prescriptive analytics to optimize inventory levels, asset allocation, and fulfillment strategies.

By integrating workflows and automating decision processes, teams gained the ability to take timely action on repairs, rebalancing, and new procurement decisions.

Key capabilities included:

• Centralized data foundation with strong data quality and master data management
• Predictive and prescriptive analytics for asset optimization and planning
• Automated workflows to streamline cross-site coordination and decision-making
• Scenario-based decision support for real-time insights and actions
• End-to-end visibility into inventory and asset movement across global operations

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What Changed

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Inventory management shifted from fragmented, reactive decision-making to a connected, proactive system.

Teams can now balance inventory more effectively across locations, reduce reliance on urgent shipments, and improve service levels, driving greater efficiency and cost control across global operations.

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