How to effectively control & plan chemical supply chains
Advanced software tools | General requirements to efficiently manage chemical supply chains
- Planning of batch, continuous or semi-continuous processes
- Planning of multi-site factories incl. high transport and storage costs as well as single-product, multi-product or multi-purpose plants
- Securing short- and medium-term availability of raw materials
- Tank and silo planning
- Planning the trade-off between the single or multi-product campaigns mode and the short term mode
- Resource-based orders/operations sequencing to optimise plant throughput
- Availability checks such as through ATP and CTP caused by high chain depths
- Planning of shelf life expire dates (SLED) on raw material and intermediate product levels
- Laboratory capacities planning as part of detailed production planning for continuous quality control
ORSOFT’s planning solutions enable to address these functional requirements – integrated with SAP ERP or S/4HANA – in one single solution. There is no need to create a custom master data base and individual interfaces.
Within just a short period of time, potential benefits such as improvements in delivery reliability, reduction of non-quality costs, reduction of changeover, idle and cleaning times, as well as reduction of safety stocks can be realized.
User experiences | Quotes from chemical customers using our software
Lonza AG: "Payback within less than a year." | CFB GmbH: "More efficiency, fine transparency." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "ORSOFT is a reliable implementation partner." | ASK Chemicals GmbH: "Substantial improvement of planning quality." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "Agreed budgets and deadlines are met by ORSOFT." | Bode Chemie GmbH: "I cannot imagine how we managed before using ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench." | Lonza AG: "Customers` logistics needs are fully covered." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "Transparency throughout the entire supply chain. Intuitive, user-friendly operation." | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "Improvement of planning quality." | Lonza AG: "Improved data quality." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "Efficient inventory management across all locations and significant reductions in working capital." | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "Improved foreseeabilty of delivery dates towards the customer." | Lonza AG: "Reduced complexity." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "Consulting provided by ORSOFT is competent and solution-oriented." | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "Disencumbering of planning tasks in production branches." | Lonza AG: "When an order is entered into SAP, the delivery date can be confirmed directly." | CBW Chemie GmbH: "The project went to amortization within the first year after implementation." | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "Optimization of the facility workload. Optimization of resource supply." | Lonza AG: "Reduced workload. " | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "The achieved planning transparency and abstraction allows to substitute employees (i.e. in case of illness) without loss of quality." | Lonza AG: "Reduced costs." | Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH: "From evaluation sheet: SCHEDULE++ made the planning process easier and more transparent." |
Interested in modelling a digital twin for the chemical industry?
Read more about combined solutions SCM + Quality Management or SCM + Worker Productivity here.
