Business Chief Europe Magazine August 2019 | Page 98

FLOGAS
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“ I think it ’ s always important to be aware of what could potentially come around the corner ”

— Tim Eaton , Head of Logistics and Supply Chain , Flogas overcome during the past 12 months . “ A year ago , we were looking at a new end-to-end system that was going to replace a number of legacy systems to enable the business to offer a more retail service ,” explains Eaton . “ We ’ ve gone down a different route of trying to get the most out of every existing performance area that we can . We ’ ve begun to tighten up processes , retrain people and reposition them within different focus areas . We ’ ve looked at the individual systems , taken our own computing systems and looked at everything that it can do for us . Our priority is doing more with the data we have and we ’ ve redesigned the backend database around what data comes into the business .”
With technology having an ever-increasing impact on all companies ’ digital transformation journeys , Eaton points to the importance of leveraging Flogas ’ extensive data correctly . “ We have a lot of data and possess vast amounts of information about our exact demand portfolio . We have access to lots of information that can really shape not just how we satisfy demand but also how we ’ re able to target new business . We ’ re at a point
AUGUST 2019