- Industrial Manufacturing
Industry Challenges
Protection against rapid shifts and future disruptions
Increased Demand for Flexibility and Agility
Leverage real-time sales and operations planning (S&OP) and advanced manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities to dynamically replan production lines, swiftly adapt to evolving customer demands, and ensure optimal throughput across global markets.
Integration of Legacy Systems with Modern Processes
Unify legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructures with modern platforms and processes to create seamless data flows that streamline manufacturing operations and accelerate digital transformation.
Build Resilience with Digital Supply Chain Networks
Implement broad inventory strategies and real-time command center monitoring and stay ahead of disruption with advanced alerting, proactive resource reallocation and rapid routing.
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Case Studies
Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing
Knauf selected Blue Yonder to support demand and supply planning transformation, beginning with the implementation of Demand Planning and Supply Planning in its insulation and ceilings businesses. These solutions enhance demand forecasting accuracy at the SKU level and streamline downstream supply chain processes, which enables Knauf to increase forecast accuracy and reduce working capital. By modernizing supply planning and order promising capabilities, the company is on track to deliver predictive insights on product availability, setting a new standard for customer fulfillment.
Outokumpu is the sustainability leader in stainless steel, driven by their heritage, people and operations. In this Blue Yonder Live session, Outokumpu’s Ronald van Dodewaard, VP Logistics, shares how Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management System enables the company to drive an environmentally friendly transportation program.
Headquartered in Tokyo, JFE Steel Group is one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers, producing 30 million tons of steel products annually. The organization recognized the need to overhaul their outdated, manual and time-consuming sales processes. Learn how Blue Yonder helped JFE implement best-in-class software to match their own highly innovative steel products in order to plan more accurately and effectively.
How Blue Yonder helps
What’s possible with advanced planning and scheduling
Maximize efficiency and return on assets
Use Blue Yonder Production Scheduling Software to refine and rebalance production to improve inventory utilization, increase output and decrease rework while minimizing logistics and warehousing costs with the ability to perform continuous analysis and adjustment of production processes based on supply and demand changes.
Increase delivery stability and higher throughput
Use intelligent scenario planning to analyze supply and production constraints as well as order changes to generate a resource-optimized schedule and sequence that can be locked in, smoothing assembly times of a facility, even down to sections of a conveyor belt, all while balancing labor cost, machine utilization and assembly time.
Ensure reliable delivery commitments to customers and partner
Use digital twin modeling and Blue Yonder Production Planning Software to enable planners to continually improve production slotting, scheduling, and sequencing to support the most demanding and variant-rich production processes while improving forecast accuracy to ensure partners and customers know when to expect orders.
Features & capabilities
Orchestrate production excellence: From planning to execution
Order slotting and scheduling
Optimize Production for Speed and Profitability
Build resilience, strengthen alignment with sales and keep lines moving with advanced scenario planning. Real-time details on supply availability, capacity, orders, and delivery dates help create schedules that streamline production and balance order distribution for improved resource utilization and faster delivery, across Industrial Manufacturing such as metal, lumber, heavy machinery, engines and parts.
Detailed scheduling
Stay ahead of disruption
Quickly create and validate plans to support new orders while avoiding costly production delays or downtime. Advanced, what-if scenario planning uses digital twins built from component and part availability, production capacities and existing orders to weigh trade-offs and recommend an optimal production plan along with predictable delivery details for increased customer satisfaction.
Order sequencing
Boost production efficiency and stability
Create optimized order sequences that uniformly distribute work, smooth production times and minimize supply chain bottlenecks. Sequencing analyzes potential supply, production and transportation constraints to expand asset utilization, increases planning efficiency by up to 60%, increase throughput up to 20% and increase sequence stability up to 100%.
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