SteelPlanner: Setting the Trend in Supply Chain, Manufacturing Execution Systems and Advanced Planning and Scheduling in the Steel Industry

摘要

For more than 20 years, AIS has been active in the steel industry, delivering state of the art Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Execution Systems, and Advanced Planning and Scheduling solutions to its world-class leader steel producers. With its comprehensive, but flexible SteelPlanner~R solution, AIS is setting the trend in this complex area of steel production: when the commercial world meets the production world and needs to find the optimum production plans and schedules that respects quality and technological constraints as well as due dates and logistics ones while maintaining production and material costs at its lowest. With the current economic turmoil, it is of the utmost importance to benefit from an agile solution that can inherently adapt to changing business conditions and strategies. If capacity optimization was still a leitmotiv less than a year ago, today one has to look at efficiently managing low orderbooks, minimizing production costs, and optimizing the line availability calendar. In this fast-moving world, a powerful tool such as SteelPlanner, which allows fast and reliable what-if scenarios, is key to maintaining a transparent supply chain that meets the requirements of the commercial and production world.