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Increase Profitability With ILOG Planning and Scheduling Applications
With heightened competition, global consolidation and downward price pressures continuing to define the new global marketplace, manufacturers and logistics companies are aggressively seeking new paths to profitability. As market leaders move beyond “compliance paralysis,” visionary organizations have taken a pragmatic approach to achieving operational excellence in a way that puts them in control of meeting profitability goals.
Manufacturing and transportation companies are realizing the importance of identifying and deploying new solutions and best practices that will help:
- Reduce variability and improve manufacturing and transportation performance, asset utilization and supply chain predictability
- Match performance to service-level agreements at the per customer, per order level.
- Adhere to schedules, improve capacity and resource planning and align manufacturing and transportation plans with the customer and supply chain order
- Reduce cash-to-cash cycle times, order lead times, improve agility and responsiveness
- Eliminate waste
Improve planning and scheduling methodologies
To achieve operational excellence and improved accountability for decisions, organizations require better planning and scheduling tools that accurately model operations and seamlessly integrate with existing systems and business processes. Accurate, workable plans and schedules, as the foundation for both execution and simulation tools, will enable companies to uncover opportunities and make the most effective trade-offs in complex, dynamic environments. Business leaders will be empowered to rationalize their decisions by fully understanding the impacts of various business drivers before committing to an operating plan with confidence.
As a result of widespread enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption, much of the business and IT infrastructure is now in place. Achieving operational excellence in manufacturing and transportation (planning and detailed scheduling systems) is gaining momentum in a post-ERP investment wave, alongside demand-driven manufacturing (S&OP) and improved execution management (MES/TMS).
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Improved planning and scheduling tools and methodologies are required to fill the critical gap between today's planning and execution systems. |
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Recent trends have arisen due to limitations of existing systems:
- Functional gaps— Tactical and strategic decisions are often made in different parts of the organization and have long been out of sync. Existing solutions perpetuate this problem, with separate tools employed by different groups. As a result, many decisions are based on completely different assumptions. ISA S95 has identified this gap between Level 3 and Level 4 functionality, placing detailed production scheduling as the key gap filler and feedback loop between MES and ERP. In transportation, a similar gap exists between ERP and TMS.
- Other functional shortcomings— Enterprise systems are often criticized for their rigidity and resultant high cost of ownership. Upon go-live, applications are plagued by out-dated models and assumptions. Users want increased adaptability and greater independence from expensive IT resources in order to effectively ensure consistency between their applications and their constantly changing business logic. Next generation solutions must improve their adaptability so that vendors themselves can evolve more cost-effective managed services models.
ILOG is the leader in planning and scheduling applications
For over 15 years, industry leaders in manufacturing and transportation have come to ILOG, the leader in planning and scheduling, for their supply chain planning and scheduling needs. Because only ILOG can boast a technology portfolio that includes both ILOG CPLEX for mathematical programming and ILOG CP for constraint programming — the proven foundation of planning and scheduling systems — not only have 8 of the Top 10 ERP/SCM vendors embedded ILOG’s core technologies, but ILOG has established a solid reputation for building, deploying and managing leading-edge supply chain planning and scheduling applications.
- ILOG Plant PowerOps – Integrated production planning and detailed production scheduling in process and discrete manufacturing
- ILOG Fab PowerOps – Real-time detailed production scheduling in front-end semiconductor manufacturing
- ILOG Transport PowerOps – Transportation planning for shippers/3PLs
While ILOG has invested hundreds of man-years of research and development into delivering precise operational models for planning and scheduling, ILOG’s offerings are as much about world-class products as they are about the services to deploy and manage your supply chain project. ILOG Professional Services, through its Planning & Scheduling practice and team of dedicated planning and scheduling experts, will ensure the successful implementation of your supply chain project. ILOG also recognizes the momentum of business, and offers cost-effective packages to ensure optimal performance from your ILOG products over time. ILOG consultants can re-tune your models quarterly, biannually or annually, depending on the rate of change in your business.
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