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Integrated Planning and Scheduling for Optimized Process Manufacturing
Extend the value of your existing IT investments with ILOG Plant PowerOps (PPO). ILOG Plant PowerOps takes production planning to a new level for managing demand variability and building executable schedules. It's the only application that offers integrated planning and detailed scheduling for the difficult production challenges associated with the fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. No other supply chain application contributes as much to the efficient management of tanks, cleaning or sterilization-in-place and process step changeover procedures.
ILOG Plant PowerOps is based on the most effective optimization models ever built for these challenges. It is the perfect extension to your enterprise resource planning (ERP) or supply chain management (SCM) system and it performs beyond the capabilities of traditional advanced planning and scheduling solutions. ILOG Plant PowerOps helps you address key issues in the food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, and other consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries.
Key capabilities:
- Globally optimize production plans, batch sizes and production sequences
- Balance multiple goals
- Manage demand variability and scheduling complexity
- Simulate production scenarios
- Compare schedules across key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Replan and reschedule with an interactive planning board and Gantt chart
- Extend what-if capabilities for plant design and process design
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Key benefits:
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Increase plant efficiency to improve profitabality
ILOG Plant PowerOps includes the tools needed to optimize your planning and scheduling. With it, you can:
Leverage your investments
Enhance your operations using your existing systems. ILOG Plant PowerOps leverages existing ERP, SCM and MES investments to provide dramatic improvements in production efficiency and flexibility without an expensive system replacement or a risky customization project. It complements transaction systems, providing excellence in integrated production planning and detailed scheduling.
Improve plant efficiency
The combination of state-of-the-art optimization models with a decision support application environment designed for planning and scheduling is very powerful. React quickly to changes and unexpected events while gaining a clear understanding of the consequences in terms of profitability, customer service and resource utilization. Improve overall operational efficiency to more easily handle operational bottlenecks, new product introductions, marketing promotions and unexpected orders. Improve profitability and customer service
More efficient planning and scheduling realizes more throughput with lower unit costs, inventory reductions and less product waste. Greater agility and more compact, efficient schedules can significantly increase revenue in capacity constrained environments.
Defer capital expenses
By increasing production through a facility, most businesses will be able to defer some equipment purchases and plant expansions over time.
Make the best operational decisions possible
ILOG Plant PowerOps provides an interactive planning and scheduling environment built on top of the most fine-grained optimization models available for process manufacturing. Its scenario creation and comparison interface lets supply chain and operations managers evaluate
alternative plans and schedules, comparing them across key business and manufacturing
metrics. Managers can balance the trade-offs between customer service and profitability,
and make the best operational decisions possible.
Enhance performance through improved plant design and process design
Industrial engineers and production planners can now collaborate to make decisions affecting plant profitability. ILOG Plant PowerOps helps industrial engineers simulate the impact of different investment decisions in the plant with the same sophisticated planning and scheduling tools used by their colleagues in manufacturing.
Implement Lean Manufacturing Principles
ILOG PPO helps you implement lean manufacturing principles by providing an integrated planning and scheduling model that takes into account the right trade-offs between supply chain and manufacturing goals. Taking into account key manufacturing constraints, ILOG PPO closes the gap between planning and execution by helping planners generate plans and schedules that are truly executable on the plant floor.
Profit from our experience
ILOG Plant PowerOps capitalizes on more than 20 years of R&D and real-world experience
in planning and scheduling. Global 500 companies rely on ILOG optimization daily, and ILOG's recent acquisition of LogicTools, a leading US provider of supply chain optimization solutions, has extended ILOG's coverage to supply chain network design and inventory optimization. ILOG PPO uses the most advanced optimization technology today, and is backed by a worldwide network of developers and software consultants.
Next steps
Learn more about how ILOG can help you improve your production planning and detailed scheduling:
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