From plan to performance: why digitised planning and scheduling is essential for terminal operations

Terminal operations depend on the precise coordination of product demand, inventory, tank availability, loading resources, transport movements, customer commitments, and operating constraints. Yet many terminals still manage these activities through spreadsheets, phone calls, emails, and disconnected systems. The result is often avoidable congestion, schedule conflicts, underutilised assets, delayed decisions, and increased exposure to demurrage, detention, and service disruption.

This webinar will examine why digitised planning and scheduling should be treated as a core capability within a modern terminal automation solution. It will show how Honeywell Terminal Manager can help connect planning with operational execution across truck, rail, marine, and pipeline movements, while improving visibility into inventory, ullage, demand, resource availability, and terminal workload.

The session will also explore how planning and scheduling can work alongside product demand forecasting, slot booking, enterprise visibility, web portal collaboration, analytics, and ERP integration to create a more coordinated operating environment. Particular attention will be given to brownfield terminals, where operators need to improve planning performance without replacing every existing system or disrupting daily operations.

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how connected planning supports safer operations, better asset utilisation, improved customer responsiveness, and more predictable terminal performance.