by Phil Baratz If your drivers are making the right number of deliveries (20-30) per day and they are working the right number of hours (8-10) per day, AND you are dispatching the right way to optimize the deliveries based on the data you have (i.e., how many gallons are in your customers’ tanks),…
Written by: Philip Baratz, president of Angus Energy It might come as news that on average, 70% of all dealer operating expenses are directly related to fuel delivery. These expenses include trucks (and everything needed keep them running) as well as Dispatch and Delivery personnel (and all their associated costs). Tank Monitors: you’ve heard about…
Written by: Philip Baratz, president of Angus Energy The requirement to predict both consumption numbers based on heat usage in addition to baseload usage was ALWAYS difficult. Not only has it always been difficult, but this year it has become even more difficult. We hear very often about people who are reviewing K’s and who…
by Philip Baratz Imagine you are sitting at a blackjack table with a $25 bet placed. The dealer is showing a 5, and you have been dealt a 6 and a 5. The hand is looking good, so what do you do? Anyone who has ever played blackjack, or any other “game of chance”, understands…
Angus has studied many fuel delivery issues over the past few years, and this year there are several unique issues that we have never encountered before. Our industry has always been challenged by unpredictable deliveries based on K-Factor. While there is a correlation between the weather and consumption, the correlation is too often not…
Written by: Philip Baratz, president of Angus Energy We are all familiar with the famous disclaimer: “Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results”. In our world, that of HISTORICAL K-factor deliveries, past performance is heavily relied upon – mostly successfully. Yet, the pandemic that swept our nation over the past 7 months will…
Imagine if all of your customers were new customers. We all love new customers. They are excited about us and we are about them. We have no receivables or service issues with them, and they have never complained to us about anything. Most importantly, they are bringing us revenue that we didn’t have before. There…
Written by: Philip Baratz, president of Angus Energy Most, if not all, fuel marketers today still heavily rely on K-Factors to predict, prioritize and route their deliveries. This method of calculating next delivery based upon a mathematical formula has allowed fuel marketers to operate as efficiently as possible. But are K-factors really the most efficient…
As a proud partner with ADD Systems, we had the opportunity to guest post on their blog about some tips we learned from some of our tank monitoring clients. ADD Systems is one of our valued integrated back-office software companies for both BRITE® and GREMLIN®. We recently interviewed two of our GREMLIN clients, Gary Sippin,…
With a growing number of heating oil and propane tank monitoring options on the market today, and so many different factors to consider (communication type, fuel type, technology, price, support, customer app, etc.), fuel dealers are often left with more questions than answers. As such, we thought that it would be helpful for fuel dealers…
