Downstream. Perfected.

Strategic Tech Procurement for the Downstream Sector.

Independent advisory, post-merger IT integration, and vendor selection for retail fuel networks across Central and Eastern Europe.

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The network is the asset.

A thousand sites.
One architecture.

Retail fuel is not a chain of shops. It is a live system of pumps, payments, and fiscal ledgers. DSM Advisory designs the technology decision before the acquisition closes — and makes it real on day one.

What we see

Every pump. Every till. Every ledger.

Downstream IT is a stack, not a slogan. We map the estate as operators run it — then specify what must stay, what must go, and what must be bought.

Forecourt

Dispensers, tank gauging, price signs, and controller logic that decide whether a site can trade.

POS

Shop, wet stock, loyalty, and shift close. The system the cashier never thinks about — until it fails.

Clearing

Card schemes, fleet cards, and settlement files that turn volume into cash.

Fleet

Enterprise fuel cards, telematics hooks, and B2B billing across national networks.

Payments

Gateways, terminals, and routing. Chosen in a tender. Lived with for a decade.

Fiscal

Country-by-country compliance. The unglamorous layer that cannot be optional.

M&A Technical Due Diligence

See the estate as it actually is.

We evaluate legacy forecourt systems, POS infrastructure, and backend architecture to build accurate CapEx and OpEx models prior to network acquisition.

Site-level system census across mixed vendor generations.
Technical debt priced into the model — not discovered after close.
A buy, hold, or replace recommendation the investment committee can underwrite.

A living map of the network — not a slide of averages.

Blind tender A Sealed

Blind tender B Sealed

Award criteria Scored

Commercial lock Term sheet

Vendor Sourcing & RFPs

The right vendor. On the right terms.

Executing blind tenders and competitive procurement for enterprise fleet management, clearinghouses, and payment gateways.

No preferred suppliers. No recycled shortlists. A process the seller, the buyer, and the auditor can all sit through.

Post-Merger Integration

One platform. Every site.

Standardizing fragmented gas station networks onto unified, modern IT platforms to ensure fiscal compliance and operational efficiency.

Cutover that respects the night shift. A target architecture that still works in the last village on the network.

The work

From letter of intent to last site live.

Discover

Diligence that reads the wires, not the brochure. A model the deal team can defend.

Compete

Blind RFPs. Comparable bids. A vendor decision that survives the first board question.

Standardize

One stack across the acquired network. Quiet cutovers. Fiscal that stays green.

Central and Eastern Europe

Present where the networks are.

Retail fuel in CEE is dense, regulated, and still being redrawn. We work the transaction from the capitals that underwrite it.

London

Frankfurt

Warsaw

Vienna

Independence

No hardware to sell. No platform to push.

DSM Advisory is retained by the buyer. Vendors compete. Architectures are chosen for the network, not for a partner programme. That is the entire firm.