Insights: Replanning in the event of disruptions in chemical production planning
How do chemical plants react to raw material shortages, energy problems and logistics disruptions? The article shows why replanning in chemical production planning quickly becomes a complex decision-making problem - and how mathematical optimization helps to find reliable alternatives under real restrictions.
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: Excel works ... until it doesn't
Excel is still the central tool for planning in many companies. However, with increasing complexity, it is increasingly reaching its limits. In this interview, we talk about how to recognize this, why „working“ is not the same as „optimal“ and how planning is changing fundamentally today.
Insights: Scenario-based replanning
When demand, capacities or material availability change, Excel quickly reaches its limits in production planning. This article shows how pharmaceutical and chemical companies can set up new planning more reliably, quickly and comprehensibly.
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.
Insights: Planning Governance and Transparency
Planning rarely fails because of data - but because of inconsistent decision-making logic. The article shows why spreadsheet-based planning reaches its limits and how mathematical optimization helps to make complex decisions consistently and reliably.
Interview: Harnessing hidden potential in the Linehaul
Many linehaul networks function reliably on a day-to-day basis. Timetables are in place, processes work, procedures are well-rehearsed. And yet a closer look often reveals that not everything that works is really efficient.
End-to-end decision support in retail logistics
End-to-end decision support reduces total costs in retail logistics by 5-10 % through holistic modeling instead of silo optimization. Find out in our insights how intelligent decision support achieves this.