Segregating Duties in Operations

As an ‘Operations guy’, I am asked periodically, “What should we do to become more efficient in Operations?” My answer is typically “Become better dispatchers”, but what does that mean exactly? Many people do not understand specifically what it entails to work in Operations. Most companies fail to understand how each individual role plays an integral…

Ticket Types for Oil Field

While we were assisting on a TMW implementation for one of our clients, a problem arose for which there was no current solution.  Oil Field Order Entry did not have a way to distinguish the different types of tickets that oil haulers were getting.  There were tickets that were measured using a flow meter, tickets calculated based on the height of the…