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Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling Software for Chemical Industry
Challenges for the chemical industry
Faced with a strategy of strong growth and a dramatic increase in the cost of raw materials, which represent 50 to 75% of your production costs, you must be able to:
- Reduce your production costs by optimizing use of your industrial capacity, to deal with price competition
- Reduce your production cycle times
- Decrease your inventories for which the costs and risks of obsolescence are high
- Centralize planning and improve information sharing within the company and with your suppliers and customers
- Quickly react to changes in the market
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows
ORTEMS PS-SRP Chemical solution
- Finite capacity optimization: machines, equipment, labor, raw materials.
- Overall optimization of the company (versus local optimization of a workshop)
- Optimization of semi-finished product and raw material inventories
- Taking into consideration all levels of bill of material
- Synchronize various workshops
- Enable traceability from production to packaging
- Provide an optimal, dynamic and feasible schedule that is also flexible and responsive to unforeseen events
- Provide a real decision-support tool thanks to improved visibility
Our strengths:
- Optimization of equipment capacity utilization
- Batch based production
- Work in battery of reactors with connectivity constraints
- Synchronization from process to packaging
- Synchronization of filling and emptying of tanks
- Control over use of storage tanks
- Variable sequencing rules and changeover times based on product sequences on the process equipment and packaging lines.
Advantages:
- Improved process and packaging synchronization (reduction in WIP)
- Decrease in raw materials inventories through pull flow supply based on finite capacity sequencing
- Minimization of changeovers on production and packaging lines
- General increase in productivity
- Better anticipation and optimization of the use of personnel
- Greater flexibility for make-to-order and improved responsiveness
ORTEMS success stories:
TOTAL LUBRIFIANTS:
- Almost immediate ROI (6 months)
- Thanks to scheduling optimization, impact of the reduced lot size on productivity was decreased from -13% to -2%
- Reliability of delivery dates despite the increase in constraints. Customer service rate increased by 4 points
- Safety stock reduced to a minimum, despite a high restocking rate. Reliability of schedule dates enabled very precise control of the MRP parameters and a considerable reduction in safety stocks for packaging items. For example, with a line speed of 400 drums per hour, the safety stock was reduced to 60
GIVAUDAN:
- 50% relative increase in the customer service rate
- 30% reduction in cycle times
- Significant reduction in WIP
