You're in the heart of Latin America's largest industrial hub, in Paulínia, São Paulo, where millions of liters of fuel flow daily through pipelines, rails, and highways. This is where Opla Logística Avançada has built something impressive—the largest independent ethanol terminal in Brazil.
Opla is no ordinary company, far from it. With the strategic partnership between BP and Ultracargo Logística, coupled with investments, it has become a national benchmark in multimodal liquid bulk operations. Its TCP (Paulínia Fuel Terminal) is a true powerhouse: 182.5 million liters of storage capacity for ethanol, diesel, biodiesel and aviation kerosene.
But even as a market leader, Opla faced a challenge common to many logistics giants: how to intelligently integrate three different modes (road, rail and pipeline) into a 24/7 operation?
It is in this scenario that AutoMind comes into play, with the AutoLoadIt wasn't just about implementing another system, but about revolutionizing the way one of the country's most strategic terminals operated.
The arrival of AutoLoad in Paulínia was poised to be a milestone. After all, we're talking about connecting refineries, pipelines, and rail lines to the national highway network, right at the epicenter of Brazilian fuel distribution.
The transformation came about through a solution that seemed simple in theory but was powerful in practice. AutoLoad was here to transform operations: its modules integrate the process from the terminal to the ERP—or, as we say in Opla's case, "from the instrument to SAP"—end-to-end, ensuring orchestrated, fluid, and perfectly synchronized performance.
THE Customer Portal gave carriers complete autonomy to schedule their operations without relying on phone calls or extensive email flows. Scheduling system began to distribute the operational windows intelligently, like a conductor organizing each entrance and exit.
THE Access Control brought automated security, while the Queue Control offered something every terminal dreams of: full visibility of what's happening in real time. No more wondering where each truck is or when the next train will arrive.
Each operation now has complete traceability, and process security has reached a new level. While the gatekeeping work, which was previously performed manually using spreadsheets, is now performed within the system, streamlining the team's work and increasing employee satisfaction. However, the impact goes far beyond the numbers. By implementing AutoLoad in Paulínia, OPLA not only modernized its terminal, it also implemented the growing digital transformation process in Brazil's liquid bulk sector.
This partnership between AutoMind and Opla represents something greater than a simple technological implementation. It's proof that when you combine the expertise of those who operate the largest independent ethanol terminal in the country with the innovation of those who develop the best logistics solutions, the result is transformative.
For AutoMind, having AutoLoad operating in Paulínia confirms that its technology is present at the most strategic points of Brazil's logistics infrastructure. For Opla, it ensures that its 182.5 million liters of capacity operate at maximum efficiency.
