PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE
What
is Your Legacy ? Al Lindseth ( CIO Plains All American Pipeline )
“ This was a dual mode , satellite and Code Division Multiple Access ( CDMA ) implementation to gather key data from our trucking fleet . The CDMA didn ’ t reach in a lot of areas and satellite was problematic with the amount of data we were transmitting . We went above and beyond because we knew what a large issue that was - measures like putting WiFi at the truck stations , actually talking to the carrier to try and influence their rollout plan . We built a lot more data push into our dispatch programme so the data would get transmitted when the trucks were most likely to be at the main yard . If we had not done that , we would have had about 35 % of our truck fleet in North America that would not be able to send critical data at the right times . The trucks would have been sitting a lot longer . Time is money . It would have been a real problem ,” said Lindseth .
Over the years , the business has used stress testing , experience analysis on the business side and reports that show what the impact is to hedging programmes and other commercial activities . Al has done this on the IS side as well . “ For example , we took a number of different scenarios that would trigger our disaster recovery programme , such as fires , flooding , power outages and hurricanes
266 February 2022