December 6, 2022

Integrated planning of production and distribution in a glass container producing company

How to foresee and plan the future operations

Integrated planning of production and distribution in a glass container producing company

At a glance

Challenge

Our client struggled with poor resource allocation and lost opportunities due to a misleading planning process. In process industries, setup delays led to significant costs and delivery delays, highlighting the need for integrated planning across production, inventory, and transportation to optimize resource use.

Solution

Using a mathematical programming approach, we provide continuous, integrated supply chain planning for the client. Detailed reports and key indicators such as delays, lost sales, setups, transportation costs, and inventory levels are generated for optimal decision-making.

Results

Nowadays within less than 15 minutes, our client is able to run what-if analysis, optimize current production and distribution plans for over one year and dive into the forecasted performance indicators.

Challenge

Our client struggled with poor resource allocation and lost opportunities due to a misleading planning process. In process industries, setup delays led to significant costs and delivery delays, highlighting the need for integrated planning across production, inventory, and transportation to optimize resource use.

Approach

Solution

Using a mathematical programming approach, we provide continuous, integrated supply chain planning for the client. Detailed reports and key indicators such as delays, lost sales, setups, transportation costs, and inventory levels are generated for optimal decision-making.

Results

Nowadays within less than 15 minutes, our client is able to run what-if analysis, optimize current production and distribution plans for over one year and dive into the forecasted performance indicators.

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Our AI-generated summary

Our AI-generated summary

Our client has lost in the past several commercial opportunities due to poor resource allocation coming from a misleading planning process. In the process industries, a lost minute in a setup may represent several thousand euros due to material consumption and cause delays in the deliveries. Thus it is crucial to foresee and plan future operations to be sure that limited resources are explored to their full potential.

After years of growth, our client was facing rising difficulty in assigning markets to factories and planning at the medium-long term the overall stock fluctuations. Clearly, this challenging problem called for process integration from production to inventory and transportation planning.

Through a mathematical programming based approach, we are able to deliver to this client a continued service that guides the overall supply chain planning with an integrated perspective.

Complete reports on the best solutions to be taken are generated and a comprehensive set of indicators made available: delay, lost sales, color setups, process setups, transportation costs, and inventory levels.

Nowadays within less than 15 minutes, our client is able to run what-if analysis, optimize current production and distribution plans for over one year and dive into the forecasted performance indicators.

Our AI-generated summary

Our AI-generated summary

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