TOWARDS BETTER SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFITABILITY
Supply Chain Process and Material Flow Steering
We study alternative production models, analyse facility material flows and generate order-delivery development Master Plans.
Production Planning and Control
Benefits gained by developing production planning:
- Maximizing production throughput and improving resource utilization
- Reducing tied-up capital in intermediate and final goods inventories
- Faster reaction to altering customer needs
- Production optimization to minimize total costs of production and ensure desired service-level
“Challenge for production is to react fast and cost-efficiently to ever more unpredictable demand… and to do it faster than competitors.“
Developing Production
Planning
Goal:
To define S&OP processes and rules which ensure service-level and cost-efficient production.
Implementation:
Workshops to define new model of operation and to commit personnel to change.
Deliverables:
New developed process, responsibilities, contents of plans and tools.
Warehouse Digital Twin
Goal:
To improve warehouse processes to reduce cost, improve service level and make your business more sustainable and profitable.
Implementation:
WareBee combines all your Warehouse data in a single view. It is very quick to set-up WareBee working. You only need locations, orders, stock and items. WareBee AI will build a digital twin of warehouse and operations.
Deliverables:
To evaluate what kind of Automation is the most cost-effective, and to evaluate your Workforce and Equipment. Do what-if scenarios: Experiment with different layouts, racking types, product allocation strategies etc.
WareBee AI Solution - Warehouse Digital Twin Platform
Understand Warehouse As Is performance
To manage operations, WareBee AI integrates labour performance, physical layout, handling equipment utilization to create the most accurate performance and cost dashboard of the operations.
Layout designer highlights storage location issues and stock positions. Picking routes, occupancy heatmaps and bottle necks are visualized, creating actionable insights.
Improve your Warehouse productivity with AI
Optimizing warehouse products slotting rules and picking route is a challenging task due to numerous operational constraints and business requirements. WareBee AI tool simplifies this process and gives a clear re-design plan to improve capital and labour performance and cut cost!
WareBee AI creates a clear cut re-assignment plan. Solution recognizes and prioritises concrete slotting change sequels for implementation.
“What If” business case simulations can be used eg. for new customer or consignee slotting and automatization implementation.
Master plan
Master Plan ensures good productivity of work and capital as well as expandability and convertibility of operation in ever changing market situations.
Benefits from Master Plan:
- To prepare changes is volume and product mix according to business strategy
- To ensure correct dimensioning of space and equipment resources
- To create basics for efficient use of work and capital
Content of a Project
Goal:
To draw a feasible Master Plan for a production plant, distribution centre and warehouse.
Implementation:
Scope and objectives are defined to develop a functional and technical solution utilizing most advanced and economical technology.
Plan will be developed in cooperation with customer’s experts.
Deliverables:
Business-case including technical solution, evaluation of investment costs and profitability calculation.
Productivity of Capital and Work
”Greatest lesson from the project was that capacity of production can be significantly increased without investing in new equipment”
-Director, Operations
Benefits from developing productivity of capital and work:
- Profitability of products will improve
- Financial position and equity ratio of the company will improve
- Capital will be released for investments
- Quality of operations from customer’s point of view will improve
- Motivation of personnel will improve
Content of a Project
Goal:
To increase efficiency in use of work and capital
Implementation:
Efficient, sustainable practices are developed and deployed with customer by using LEAN-tools.
Deliverables:
- Distribution routes and work effieciency development
- Increasing availability of production lines by minimizing disturbances
- Improving change-overs
- Process efficiency (order-to-delivery cycle, sourcing, IT) and control rules for improving material flow
- Lay-out, workstations and technical solutions which support efficient operations
- Elimination of complaints and waste
- Development of job descriptions and line manning
- Outsourcing operations and controlling service partner
