Shedding light on value chain optimization

By leveraging technologies such as IoT and blockchain, companies are creating seamless connections that help enhance the efficiency and transparency of energy production and distribution. This digital integration can help reduce costs, improve system reliability, and ensure that every stage of the value chain communicates effectively with the others.

The fusion of renewable and transition energy sources, alongside innovation storage technologies, is forging pathways to a more robust and sustainable energy framework. This synergy can support continuous energy supply, optimize resource utilization, and significantly cut down on emissions, steering the industry toward a greener future.

Advanced data analytics can transform energy management by syncing supply with real-time demand. Smart grids and adaptive response mechanisms tailor energy delivery to actual usage patterns and can boost both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics are key players in enhancing operational visibility and preempting potential disruptions. These advances allow for smarter energy management, minimize waste, and help ensure that companies aren’t only participants in the energy sector but leaders in its evolution.

Deloitte collaborated with one global upstream crude oil company to tailor its strategy. By aligning commercial agreements with operational needs, the business was able to maximize returns. Our professionals provided experience and foresight in enhancing portfolio management and decision-making processes, creating substantial opportunities for strategic portfolio optimization and revenue growth.

Our assessment of a major feedstock organization led to a comprehensive review and optimization of their feedstock purchases. We advised and enhanced risk management, showing the value of our procurement and selection strategies in improving financial outcomes.

We advised a US refinery as it integrated data across its operations, which contributed to a boost in forecasted accuracy and operational agility. This transformation resulted in performance gains and profitability, underscoring Deloitte’s capability to leverage data integration to enhance operational responsiveness and efficiency.

With Deloitte’s targeted transformation, a leading energy company refined its distribution strategies, enabling better market positioning and improved decision-making across pricing, inventory, and supply chain management. This highlights how our adaptive distribution strategies can help capitalize on market opportunities and enhance decision-making efficiency.

Our assessment of a major feedstock organization led to a comprehensive review and optimization of their feedstock purchases. We advised and enhanced risk management, showing the value of our procurement and selection strategies in improving financial outcomes.

Deloitte designed and advised on the implementation of an end-to-end integrated planning process for a refining major across 11 refineries in 3 regions, helping enable value chain optimization at the regional-level vs. individual refinery-level. The new process shifted make, buy and process decisions from local asset-based Refinery planning to a connected regional plan utilizing multi-plant, multi-period planning methodology. The process increased visibility across the value chain and connected planning decisions to market drivers yielding regional value opportunities contributing to maximizing GRM.