In a global economy of fraught with increasing competition, variable demand and rising costs, to realize higher profitability, Energy & Materials producers of oil & gas, metals, minerals, and chemicals must optimize their operations to achieve better performance while at the same time ensuring customer satisfaction. This requires that they solve complex planning puzzles to ensure they can deliver what they promise while minimizing the cost of goods sold.
Operations Planning and Scheduling Excellence bridges the gap between Sales and Operations. It is a fully integrated solution to optimize raw materials procurement, transportation, inventory, product dispatching, production scheduling and execution. With it, producers gain advanced modeling and proven solver capabilities to simulate “what-if” scenario for optimal decision-making.
Using the solution, producers determine the best strategy to maximize revenue, customer satisfaction and minimize cost. Ultimately, they gain agility to respond faster to changing demands, catch new opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition. With Operations Excellence advanced forecasting and planning techniques, what, when, and where to produce is optimized, along with production scheduling and transportation planning from supply to production.