Lubricants product management system

A method for lubricating oils product management comprising:

• a. inputting alphanumeric data into one or more data structures, the data structures configured and adapted for storing, updating, modifying, deleting, and searching data comprising historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof;
• b. searching at least one of the data structures wherein the search parameters are selected by a user and comprise historical date ranges, future date ranges, and mixtures thereof;
• and
• c. forecasting future projections over the user selected future date ranges, the future projections comprising projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof;
• wherein the input for the forecasting comprises historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, and mixture thereof;
• and
• d. displaying on a monitor one or more graphical representations, where the graphical representations comprise the results of the search of the at least one data structure, the results of the forecasting, and mixtures thereof;
• wherein the graphical representations depict historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof.

A machine-readable program storage medium tangibly embodying sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions for execution by at least one processing system, the sequences of instructions to perform steps for:

• a. inputting alphanumeric data into one or more data structures, the data structures configured and adapted for storing, updating, modifying, deleting, and searching data comprising historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof;
• b. searching at least one of the data structures wherein the search parameters are selected by a user and comprise historical date ranges, future date ranges, and mixtures thereof;
• and
• c. forecasting future projections over the user selected future date ranges, the future projections comprising projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof;
• wherein the input for the forecasting comprises historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, and mixture thereof;
• and
• d. displaying on a monitor one or more graphical representations, where the graphical representations comprise the results of the search of the at least one data structure, the results of the forecasting, and mixtures thereof;
• wherein the graphical representations depict historical lubricant management costs, historical lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricants volume consumption, projected lubricant management costs, and mixtures thereof.