ActaFi had partnered with a Global Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Houston, in the Petroleum Industry with an program objective of tracking all Global Logistic movements for the organization. The logistics movements consisted of all people movements (plane, helicopter, train, truck, car for 40K team members), and all raw material movements in the upstream (searching and extracting oil from underwater locations) business of the organization. This had never been accomplished in the history of the organization; therefore there was no basis as how to begin this process.

ActaFi worked with vendors, and suppliers in over 100 countries, understanding what their supply chains could support to meet our objectives. We also worked with hundreds of internal management teams globally to understand what was already being done, and we were surprised. Different countries and teams had different ways of obtaining the same objective, so ActaFi standardized the process. First, we reached out to C-Suite team members and asked them for the top 50 logistics movements they would like to visually see once the project was completed. Next, we worked with team members globally to write metric based definitions, and standardized these metrics globally. Then we asked all supplier and vendor teams to digitally track, and obtain real-time logistics movements for these metrics.

We then homogenized these data sets in global repository, and applied advanced business intelligence (BI) tools to the metrics, data and produced real-time data dashboards, and global heat-maps. We shared these BI visualizations with global leaders and asked a simple question, why are global utilization rates and costs not consistent? This program objective was to achieve a $500 million cost savings per year. This is integrating technology with physical logistic movements.