Your Terminal Management System (TMS) handles all the data and business logic required to secure site access to load (or unload) vehicles. The TMS communicates directly with a wide array of physical devices from gate controls to preset batch controllers, with the latter automating and controlling product flow. It plays a large part in your midstream process management and business strategy, as well as how efficiently your operation functions. Effective TMS is measured by how quickly vehicles and vessels move in and out of the storage terminal facility. Also, how it's tracking both current inventory and the commercial transactions. Additional truck leads to increased revenue. Optimizing this process is one of the first steps when looking to reducing costs and improving profitability In this Optimizing Storage Terminal Capacity podcast series podcast, we are joined by Emerson midstream oil & gas expert, Ryan Thompson. Ryan highlights common challenges that terminal operators face, and how Emerson's TerminalManager is designed to address these challenges. Emerson's TerminalManager can help: Reduce truck turnaround times Implement faster queuing and truck tracking Track accurate delivery inventory and report distributions Ensure quality control impacted by blending ratios Support device compatibility Reduce human-error that comes with manual processes -- Visit the Optimize Terminal Capacity section on Emerson.com for on ways to maximize capacity yield and meet Top Quartile benchmarks through greater volume deployment, inventory turnover and revenue capture. It's time to put your TMS to work. We invite you to learn directly from our experts by tuning into other episodes in our Storage Terminal Capacity podcast series. Transcript Jim: Hi, everybody. I'm Jim Cahill. And welcome to another edition of our "Enabling Storage Terminal Capacity" podcast series. Today I'm joined by Ryan Thompson to discuss ways to achieve optimal truck and rail unloading rates to help improve operational capacity. Welcome, Ryan. Ryan: Thanks, Jim. Great to be here. Jim: Well, it's great having you here. Can you share with our listeners your educational background and path to where you are today as a senior manager in Emerson's Midstream Oil & Energy industry group? Ryan: Sure. I started out with a degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and took a bit of turn by getting into the IT consulting industry first with Accenture, and then later joined Deloitte Consulting. I made my way back into the oil and gas field in 2008, more specifically into Midstream, and I've been there ever since. I originally focused on pipelines and commercial applications, but now I put all of my energy into terminals and operations management. Jim: Well, that's great and that's a really interesting background with the IT consulting part in that, so that probably really helps as you work with terminal operators. So, can you tell us about a common challenge in the storage tanks and terminals industry today? Ryan: Yeah. A common challenge that I see is a constant push to do more with less. And what that translates to is improving profitability while at the same time reducing manpower, and this inherently leads us to process automation. And with a terminal management system, often called TMS for short, there are opportunities to impact both sides of that P&L equation. The very nature of a TMS system makes it both an interesting and critical piece of the solution. It's really where the rubber meets the road so to speak. The Emerson TMS called TerminalManager handles all of the data and business logic required to secure site access and handle loading and unloading activities. TerminalManager communicates directly with a wide array of physical devices, and that is from gate control to weigh scales, to preset batch controllers, with the ladder automating and controlling the product flow,
