CompareNet– Benchmark service for petrol station networks
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Comparenet is a benchmarking service designed for the oil industry that allows businesses to compare their performance and efficiency against industry averages and competitors. It provides comprehensive data analysis on aspects such as turnover, operational costs, and key performance indicators through a user-friendly web interface, ensuring ease of access and flexibility. The system supports continuous data management and integrates with existing accounting systems, facilitating informed decision-making and enhanced business planning.
CompareNet– Benchmark service for petrol station networks
- 1. CompareNet – Benchmark service for oil industry Have you ever faced these challenges? You would like to compare the performance and efficiency of your business with the industry average and the efficiency of your competitors as well, but the information available is limited and may not be reliable. The analysis of data is difficult and complicated, there are few possibilities for selection and reporting. The petrol station network shows a growth in turnover, but the results cannot be evaluated properly for lack of market data. What does CompareNet offer to you? CompareNet is a new benchmark service which offers a solution tailor-made to the special demands of the oil industry. Imagine that you can do your business planning or the evaluation of expenses and incomes in possession of information that has not been available before. You can compare the average data of petrol stations or groups of station formed according to various features with the average market data from groups of stations selected according to the same criteria. You can do all of this with respect to data on liters, data on the turnover of shops and catering, major operational costs or any predefined key performance indicators. All of the necessary data is available and can be used any time and from any access point through a simple web browser for a regular low monthly cost. The setup and operation of the service is carried out by HostLogic Kft. Hostlogic Kft. deals with the implementation and operation of SAP systems. It is the only company in Central and Eastern Europe which has a certificate from SAP AG for the hosting of SAP systems. In the past few years we have successfully adapted the features provided by the cutting-edge technology of SAP to the special demands of various industries. We have developed our CompareNet benchmark service with the help of professionals who are completely familiar with the retail businesses of petrol station networks. Our service provides tailor-made solutions to meet the specific demands of the retail networks of oil companies.
- 2. Why is CompareNet good for you? apart from turnover in petrol, it includes the business data of shops, catering and other services, as well as the major operational costs; thus, you can prepare a compre- hensive and detailed analysis of business efficiency even on the level of individual stations ; applying the service does not interfere with the currently used dealer accounting systems (such as Eurodata), since it can be operated as their supplementary system; it is a solution that operates as a continuously available data storage, which stores data in a way that it can be structured and selected according to a wide range of criteria; this effectively supports analysis, planning and decision-making; it provides continuous online, web-based access to the system, which makes it possible to access the system from anywhere, anytime; apart from the data of your own system, you can see average market data as well, so the system can make comparisons, calculate differences, and define KPI values; this way you can benchmark the efficiency of your business against averages; the data can be presented in tables and graphic charts as well; the levels of analysis can be flexibly set and selected by the user, which makes the analysis quick and easy; the system is based on the solution of SAP BI, which ensures not only flexible data handling but also high-level data security. The information that the CompareNet service is based on can be provided from the following sources: monthly turnover data for product groups from the Head Office system, which unites cash register systems; data on major operational costs from the ERP (SAP) system of the corporation; the same data on major operational costs from the offices responsible for the account- ing of petrol stations, which makes it possible to do more accurate cost analysis, in the case of shared costs applied in the CODO business model, as well. How does CompareNet work?
- 3. Dashboard interface. "A Petrol" is the demo oil company. With a simple mouse click you can check the data on shops and catering, services and operational costs. With the filters seen on the left-hand side you can further select the data. Comparisons of amounts and volumes for given periods, which show how the turnover of the selected types of stations relates to the same types of stations on the market. In the present report the data given in the last column is red, because the results for the user doing the query are negative. The figures would be green if the data for the user's own network was better than the market average of those stations that have been involved in the query. The report above can be specified further by separating, for example, motorway and regular road stations. In this case both the network average and the market average show the average turnover of these stations.
- 4. Comparison of base periods with actual periods. The nature of differences (pluses or minuses) is also indicated by the colours. Besides the quantity figures we have also chosen the indexes here, for example, the ratio of petrol and diesel and the ratio of the different types of fuel bench- marked against total turnover. With a mouse click we can have access to cost figures and the index numbers formulated from them, for example, common charges or wages. The setting of these indexes or any KPI indexes used by the oil company is optional: only the particular company can have access to these, through the web interface put together according to its specific demands. In the first line of this example, on green background, the index for tracking market changes shows -0.2%. This means that in the chosen period wage costs decreased by 3.5% in a particular type of the company's own petrol stations, while the market average for the same type of stations decreased by 3.8%. Thus, in the company's own network wage costs show a smaller increase than the market average. If you are interested in our CompareNet service, please contact us for further information at: HostLogic Ltd. H-1134 Budapest, Váci út 45. Atrium Park Office Telefon: + 36 1 237 1730 Fax: + 36 1 350 4113 Email: info@hostlogic.hu www.hostlogic.com