Insights: When Low Water Levels Become a Planning Challenge
Low water levels are affecting the supply of raw materials in the chemical industry. What matters is not a single alternative transport route, but the coordinated interplay of capacities, inventories, and production priorities.
Insights: How Automotive Suppliers Reduce Cost Pressure Through Better Planning
Automotive suppliers are under significant cost pressure. Mathematical optimization helps to better align decisions regarding production, capacity, inventory, and delivery capability—particularly in areas where costs often arise unnoticed: when there are conflicting objectives and uncoordinated planning assumptions.
Insights Session: Smart Production Planning for the Chemical Industry
Optimize your production planning for the chemical industry. Join our Insight Session to learn how tactical decisions regarding production sites and capacity can help reduce costs and manage complex production networks more efficiently (available in English only).
Insights: New US tariff plans for the pharmaceutical industry
The new US tariff plans for pharmaceuticals not only affect costs, but entire supply chains. The article shows what this means for pharmaceutical companies in Europe and their planning.
Insights: Inventory and production planning in the chemical industry
How chemical companies can better balance service, inventory and production and why Excel has its limits when it comes to integrated inventory and production planning.
Insights: Production allocation in chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Why multi-site planning in chemicals and pharmaceuticals is more than just shifting quantities and why Excel reaches its limits when it comes to cross-plant production decisions.
Interview: Dynamic network realignment of volatile supply chains
Supply chains today are under constant pressure of uncertainty, while established network structures are increasingly reaching their limits. The interview shows why traditional planning approaches are no longer sufficient and how companies can make better decisions.
Interview: Optimization of transport networks
This interview with our experts shows why rising cost pressure and increasing complexity make structural optimization of transport networks necessary and what concrete potential this offers.
Interview: Complex planning - when are individual solutions required?
In an interview with OPTANO Business Development: When standard software reaches its limits, what added value individual software solutions create - and how they are realized at OPTANO.
Business analytics and mathematical optimization
In this factsheet, we use the Gartner maturity model to show how data-based methods increase the quality of decisions and support companies in making complex decisions.