SUPPLY CHAIN enabled us to generate literally hundreds of different scenarios , and at the touch of the button see what the effect of each of those would be on our asset base .” At last , it was possible to drill down into the results , and test the outcomes of different actions in real time . This was no plug and play exercise though , he cautions : “ It took us many months to get the model right but now there ’ s really no limit to what we can do with it .”
“ Now the supply chain team is taking on another challenge : the plant by plant implementation of the Global Supply Chain Scheduler ( GSCS ), based on AspenTech ’ s Aspen Plant Scheduler™ family of products .”
“ We are over half way through the program now . By using the AspenTech tool and being able to build the logic into the tool from countless interviews with the scheduler , we have been able to generate a lot of value at our plants : minimizing changeovers , reducing inventory because of a better sequence plan , and gaining better visibility .” He hopes to finish at the end of this year or early 2016 .
Implementation is a painstaking process . The schedulers start by assessing the flow of materials at the plant , the machinery , and the constraints within the entire facility . “ We have to do a lot of interviews ! When we have all that information , we come away from the site and the technical guys set about preparing the scheduling model . Once we have a decent solution we will go back on site , review the
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