Unique capabilities for CPG industries

OMP Plus features a number of unique capabilities for managing and optimizing Consumer Packaged Goods industry specific constraints on various planning levels:

Multi-sourced products optimization: Optimize supplier choice by taking into account lead times, purchase costs, resource availability, quality aspects, etc.

Adaptive Supply Chain network : Importance of optimizing visibility in order to share information amongst suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and customers. Provided by our state-of-the-art reporting modules and integrated Strategic, Tactical and Operational Distribution and Production planning.

Substitutions: Fixed or variable substitution on finished products

Efficient Forecasting : Forecast entry, management of and reporting on marketing actions, flexible aggregation of numerous SKUs and flawless communication of forecast results with Tactical and Operational planning.

Campaign Planning: Grouping of products by color, product line, family or rather producing according to these characteristics in minimum or maximum campaigns.

Capacity Smoothing: avoid variation in capacity utilization between subsequent weeks. Smoothing constraints are part of the dials to interactively set the strategies of our solvers.

Inventory Planning: combination of visibility, accurate forecasts and advanced optimization engines gives the possibility to propose the correct level of inventory at the desired location.

Unique capabilities for food and beverage industries

OMP Plus also features a number of unique capabilities for managing and optimizing Food and Beverage industry specific constraints on various planning levels:

Traceability of materials: Multiple versions of Bill of Materials, substitutions of Raw materials, nutrition grades in formulas for food, traceability across multiple coupled or de-coupled operations.

Multi-level batch size optimization: Bulk level batch sizes synchronized with packaging lines batch sizes, considering the push-pull principle at all production levels resulting in a cost optimal and balanced solution.

Substitutions: Fixed or variable substitution on raw material or finished products.

Collaboration (VMI...): Visibility for all parties on demand and replenishments, optimized stock allocation to distribution centers, inter-company transport, minimum transport sizes, web-enabled inter face for order-entry and follow up...

Shelf Life and quarantine: Shelf life tracing and planning by production batch in all nodes of the Supply Chain.

Silo/Tank scheduling: Unique modeling capability of capacity, product allocations, inventory as well as filling and emptying constraints.

Transport planning: Optimized truck planning using product type, transport lanes, transport modes, maximum driving time, fixed factory routes...

Promotion demand management: Managing promotional demand in addition to regular product demand, contracts and other certainty levels

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