Aksa Akrilik, the world’s largest acrylic fiber producer, partnered with ICRON to tackle production planning complexities, reduce delivery lead time, and enhance reporting. Since the beginning of this partnership, Aksa Akrilik has improved service quality in order management by 30%. By adopting AI-powered decision intelligence, Aksa Akrilik was able to streamline production, accelerate response time, and enhance collaboration across previously siloed planning teams.
Established in 1968, Aksa Akrilik is the world’s largest producer of acrylic fiber. With smart investments and groundbreaking innovation, it has built the world’s largest acrylic fiber production facility, spanning 600,000 square meters, which produces 355,000 tons of fiber annually. This fiber is then supplied to 400 customers in 50 countries worldwide.
Aksa Akrilik has undoubtedly touched the lives of millions worldwide, appearing in the carpets that adorn our floors, the sweaters we wear, the awnings of corner stores, and the industrial fibers used in manufacturing processes. Aksa Akrilik’s success and scale are a testament to their strategic prowess and supply chain resilience. However, to continue scaling and looking towards the future, they identified specific challenges and supply chain pain points to overcome before further expansion. Their objectives were to enhance customer trust and improve supply chain reliability.
Reduce complexity across multiple production processes and enable planners to make faster, more confident decisions.
Ensure more consistent and accurate order fulfillment to build customer trust and support global growth ambitions.
Build a reliable reporting framework to improve visibility and enable timely, data-driven decision-making.
Enhance coordination and resource use across the supply chain to increase agility and reduce unnecessary costs.
Simplify Production Planning
Reduce complexity across multiple production processes and enable planners to make faster, more confident decisions.
Boost Supply Chain Reliability
Ensure more consistent and accurate order fulfillment to build customer trust and support global growth ambitions.
Strengthen Reporting Capabilities
Build a reliable reporting framework to improve visibility and enable timely, data-driven decision-making.
Improve Operational Efficiency
Enhance coordination and resource use across the supply chain to increase agility and reduce unnecessary costs.
As a leader in acrylic fiber manufacturing, Aksa Akrilik’s operations span a global network, requiring meticulous coordination to ensure timely production and delivery. The company has navigated complex supply chain challenges over the past decades. However, having outlined clear goals for its growing production process, it was critical to identify key challenges and their impact on pursuing these goals. ICRON and Aksa Akrilik worked together on this project to determine the starting point for the following three key challenges –
Aksa Akrilik manages five main production processes and several smaller processes in its supply chain. Each production process has specific constraints, different planning needs, and siloed planning processes. Increasing scale added to the planning complexity, making it difficult for planners to collaborate or adopt data-driven methodologies for better planning.
A lack of coordination between planning processes, poorly defined reporting frameworks, and fragmented planning efforts led to low end-to-end visibility. As the business expanded, visibility challenges became more pronounced, further highlighting the need for seamless end-to-end oversight.
Aksa Akrilik needed a solution to generate reliable, end-to-end production plans rapidly. The interdependencies between multiple manufacturing steps made it difficult for planners to visualize the full order flow and assess throughput holistically. As a result, response times were slowed.
Planning Complexity
Aksa Akrilik manages five main production processes and several smaller processes in its supply chain. Each production process has specific constraints, different planning needs, and siloed planning processes. Increasing scale added to the planning complexity, making it difficult for planners to collaborate or adopt data-driven methodologies for better planning.
Low End-to-End Visibility
A lack of coordination between planning processes, poorly defined reporting frameworks, and fragmented planning efforts led to low end-to-end visibility. As the business expanded, visibility challenges became more pronounced, further highlighting the need for seamless end-to-end oversight.
Intelligent Order Flow & Early Risk Detection
Aksa Akrilik needed a solution to generate reliable, end-to-end production plans rapidly. The interdependencies between multiple manufacturing steps made it difficult for planners to visualize the full order flow and assess throughput holistically. As a result, response times were slowed.
Aksa Akrilik recognized the need to unify planning and stay agile. To achieve this, they partnered with ICRON and adopted an intelligent planning platform tailored to their scale and goals. This strategic move enabled them to manage their supply chain and accelerate digital transformation proactively. Aksa Akrilik sought leadership in supply chain planning and data-driven decision intelligence. Implementing innovative technological solutions addressed the key challenges and enabled Aksa Akrilik to achieve its goals.
By implementing new planning capabilities, Aksa Akrilik has transformed how it manages complexity, achieving measurable improvements in visibility, delivery performance, and agility. With their Order Promising and Detailed Scheduling, we’ve improved end-to-end visibility and enhanced cross-functional collaboration. Together, we have streamlined processes, reduced planning time, and ensured accurate delivery commitments, boosting customer satisfaction. High-precision scheduling and real-time insights now empower us to operate with greater agility and efficiency. ICRON has been a valuable partner in driving our operational excellence.
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