Digital Twins for a more Sustainable Supply Chain
As the expectations for sustainable and ethical supply chains grow among consumers and stakeholders, it becomes essential for companies to ensure responsible sourcing, reduce their carbon footprint, and uphold ethical labor practices. Achieving transparency throughout the supply chain is crucial to enable the transition to more sustainable practices. However, this can be a complex process […]
How to Cross the Bridge Between Tactical Planning and Detail Scheduling?
It is crucial to clearly establish the planning parameters that will guide both tactical planning and scheduling. These parameters encompass various factors, including production capacity, lead times, resource availability, and any applicable constraints. Utilizing software tools that allow for running “what if” scenarios at both levels, using the same parameters but on a different scale, […]
Why is it manufacturing moving towards the use of process digital twins?
Why is it manufacturing moving towards the use of process digital twins? Initially, it was all about product digital twin, a simulation model of how to produce the product itself. But collaboration across the entire virtual environment is required to optimize the whole process. A process digital twin looks at the process beyond a single […]
Demand Planning and Production Planning. What should you look for?
There are three pillars that I would like to mention that must exist in a solution, so it is useful, easy and quick to use. Pillar 1: Data Governance. We saw too many solutions implementations, where all the solutions fail due to data. This is completely understandable, as data for analytic purposes comes from different […]
Digital Twin Add Insights and Planning capacities
Market tools usually help in dealing with everyday transactions. They help plan and analyze the procedures you already have in place. But what happens when you are willing to find a way to improve your processes? Generally, you will set up beta tests of your procedures, and analyze the outcomes. These on-site beta tests are […]
Is it possible to minimize Supply Chain Disruptions?
To minimize supply chain disruptions, we need to be able to quickly react to whatever happens out of the plan. Disruptions occur with unplanned situations, something very frequent along the supply chain. The delays in raw material, the variations in the demand and the lack of labor are some of the most usual problems to […]
Warehouse Simulation Model
Tennant Company, a big player in the cleaning appliances industry, manufactures floor cleaning equipment and operates a global warehouse that dispatches an average of 100 orders per day. Each order consists of a certain number of cases, items and pallets, requiring the picking of approximately 1500 products per day. The warehouse receives and unloads about […]
Integrating Demand Planning & production Optimization in a Cloud Service
A world leader company in Hair and Body care need a demand planning process, integrated with the capabilities of developing an optimized production plan, to have the picture of the next 12 months and that they could re-run on a monthly basis, changing different demand plans and adjusting production capacities scenarios and material availability. Planning […]
New Product Acquisition Analysis
Would you like to give value to the expected gain of market share for a product, according to the marketing actions you will be able to take? The model and tool, that runs along time, considers the changing market share due to actions, and delivers an accurate estimation of your expected revenue. Learn more
Optimized Detail Scheduling for a Multi-step Manufacturing Process
Optimized Detail Scheduling for a Multi-step Manufacturing Process. Alphia a custom contract manufacturer of super premium pet food, now merged with American Nutrition, is one of the largest independent manufacturers of super premium pet food in the US, producing a total of one billion pounds of pet food annually. Build a detail scheduler tool, for a weekly run […]