Industry
The companies in the chemical industry have to work within the structural constraints of their business, being far from customers and raw materials and utilizing older, more expensive production assets. The industry has concentrated on science and production and has given less attention to manufacturing. and to the supply chain. In fact chemical companies have to develop the optimum distribution networks to meet the service commitments they have made to their customers while minimizing inventories. The high-performance chemical companies, employ strong operations management capabilities with their manufacturing and supply chain functions.
Solution
ICRON provides solutions that helps to manage process manufacturing, and complex constraints in this industry and gives a range of industry-specific capabilities, such as:
- Optimized production schedules that schedules orders to minimize set-up and cleanup time
- Shelf-life functionality that helps to use date-sensitive materials efficiently to reduce scrap
- Integrated batch management covering buying, manufacturing, and selling
- Accommodating complexities in planning and scheduling products with various color/grade combinations
- The ability to handle co-products and by-products, and create plans that take multiple product possibilities into account
- Integration with process control systems , which helps for the visibility of all process-related data and integrate information at the business, plant, and control levels
ICRON gives decision makers increased control and visibility across the entire supply chain to overview of the entire supply network to identify areas of potential improvement. With ICRON’s modeling and optimization capabilities you can also:
- Test various scenarios to determine the optimal location in the network to produce products, and determine how changes in customer demand will affect the network
- Deciding where to manufacture and how to minimize the logistics cost
- Network rationalization of manufacturing plants, distribution centres and transport modes, within and across country
- Determine the locations to store products and the movements to reduce tax, import tariffs and duties. Optimal routing through primary and secondary distribution to minimize the overall cost of supply
- Optimal sourcing of raw materials