Shoulder Season Management
Business Requirement:
Better management of fuel deliveries during the seasonal transitions of Winter-to-Spring and Fall-to-Winter, or "Shoulder Seasons".
Solution:
The need is for a system that supplies accurate customer usage forecasting daily. 
Delivery Management accomplishes this with the integration of automated weather feeds from local weather stations
and forecasting agencies with detailed historical customer fuel usage and current tank monitor data to accurately forecast when a
delivery will be required.
Impact:
Combined with detailed usage,
Delivery Management determines the accurate relationships between professional weather forecast and user behavior.
This system eliminates inaccuracies associated with manually entering Degree Day forecasts and K-factor estimates, providing a
standard basis for responding to the affects of "Shoulder Season" changes in weather that impact customer fuel usage. Freeing delivery
and office resources to plan and execute efficient deliveries.
