Supply Chain Solutions
for Oil and Gas
Powerful solutions to help accelerate processes, mitigate disruption, and improve business outcomes.
Your supply chain continues to be challenged by change.

When you’re responsible for the energy that powers the planet, you need to ensure a reliable supply chain.
The oil and gas industry is challenging under the best of circumstances. Today, this already-volatile market is dealing with everything from politically-driven trade embargoes to unpredictable environmental issues. Production is difficult. Regulations are restrictive. And shipping is expensive while prices and pushed to their downward limits.
To overcome these challenges, reduce costs and risks, and improve business outcomes, oil and gas companies are seeking ways to optimize their supply chains.
You have the power to improve performance.
Your industry challenges include:
- Disruptions on the sourcing of equipment
- Downward pressure on oil and gas prices
- Need for supplier risk intelligence
- Need to monitor and measure the performance of various contractors
- Compliance with government and other regulatory bodies

Supply chain technology enables you to:
- Get real-time visibility into transactions with all suppliers and sub-suppliers
- Capitalize on AI and blockchain to understand precisely where in the process transactions may be – both procure-to-pay and order-to-cash
- Move with agility when unanticipated shipping delays require immediate action
- Rely on deep analytics to make faster, more informed business decisions
- Ensure compliance with government requirements
- Monitor performance of contractors and determine whether SLAs are met
- Implement and communicate changes with your partner ecosystem, such as price changes
An intelligent supply chain helps keep the flow of business moving when world events create challenges.
Lightwell offers industry-focused supply chain services and solutions for the gas and oil industry. Our innovations enable you to manage and optimize your complex supply chain effectively. We also excel in developing and implementing effective supply chain processes powered by the industry-leading IBM Sterling solutions.
With extensive experience in the oil and gas industry, we know your challenges, and we know how to resolve them. We’ve spent years helping organizations like yours work toward a seamless, digital supply chain with minimal disruptions or delays.
Now, with the advent of AI, machine learning, and blockchain, we can make your distribution ecosystem function more efficiently, effectively, and with a single version of the truth that every partner can rely upon.

Explore our comprehensive supply chain consulting services to learn how we can help. Learn about some of the supply chain solutions we can help you leverage and optimize them for your industry.
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
Connect with your business partners quickly and securely. Share real-time, accurate visibility with your entire retail supply chain. Leverage AI and blockchain technology to optimize processes and outcomes.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
This high-speed, high-volume, and highly secure collaboration engine accelerates B2B processes and partner transactions, and establishes more productive, promising collaborative relationships.

IBM Sterling Supply Chain Insights with Watson
Make faster, smarter decisions that help prevent supply chain delays and disruptions. This AI-powered solution provides comprehensive, end-to-end visibility and real-time insights that enable you to optimize the performance of your supply chain. Leveraging the power of AI, it helps to deepen visibility, proactively predict and mitigate disruptions, and reduce costs.

Lightwell B2B Visibility Portal
Lightwell B2B Visibility Portal provides unprecedented visibility into transactions, so you can see exactly what’s happening across your B2B operations and supply chain. This solution enables business users to identify and mitigate problems without the need for IT involvement.

Lightwell B2B Framework
Lightwell’s framework for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator -- and other IBM solutions – eases implementation and boosts efficiency. Lightwell B2B Framework delivers greater control, visibility, and insight across your supply chain network so you can make better, smarter decisions.

IBM Sterling Transaction Manager
Eliminate paper documents without requiring any process changes from your partners. This is particularly helpful with smaller business partners that have technological challenges.

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