Most fuel schedules are built backwards. Somebody looks at the tank, guesses a refill interval and sets a standing order. It works until the month you run a double shift, and then it fails on exactly the day it is most expensive to fail.
We would rather start with your production plan. If you know that the second and third weeks of the month are heavy, the schedule should already know that too. Volume moves to match the work instead of arriving in equal instalments that fit neither the busy weeks nor the quiet ones.
Start from the work, not the tank
That also changes where the deliveries sit in the week. Fuelling on a Friday afternoon so a site can start Monday full is a different plan from topping up mid-week, and for most operations it is the better one. It costs us nothing to schedule it that way, and it removes a whole category of Monday morning phone calls.
Build in slack deliberately rather than hoping for it. We plan schedules so there is always a reorder point with enough days of cover to absorb a bad road, a border delay or a week that ran longer than planned. If the buffer is never used, the schedule was slightly conservative. If there is no buffer, the first problem becomes a stoppage.
A standing order that ignores your production calendar is just a regular opportunity to run out at the wrong moment.Global Energies Africa logistics
Building in the slack you will need
Once it is set up it should be invisible. You tell us when the plan changes, we move the drops, and nobody on your side has to remember to order fuel again.
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