Business leader in metals

End-to-end visibility for harmonized decision-making

Business leaders look for planning tools to help them manage all their plants as one. OMP for Metals builds on Unison Planning’s ‘one logic, one model’ principle, offering end-to-end visibility from the corporate to the detailed plant level.

Advanced intelligence, real-time planning data, and a telescopic digital twin inform centralized decision-making based on well-balanced choices and mathematical methodology. This makes it easier to align and collaborate over multiple interconnected planning entities, layers, and horizons, as well as orchestrate key processes. These include forecasting, sales, and operations planning, campaign planning, order promising, detailed order planning, and scheduling in all their interdependencies.

Science at the service of business

OMP for Metals uses AI, ML, solvers, and data science to provide an objective stimulus for investment decisions, merger option evaluations, and to develop optimal produce or source scenarios. Its ability to balance complex and conflicting KPIs, all at once, supports both strategic and financial optimization, providing reliable information and advanced insights on margins, cash, and costs, and offers priceless support for sales precalculation and production postcalculation.

Struggle or thrive

While many business leaders struggle to respond to sudden market and supply changes, most are eager to become more demand-driven — provided that doesn’t entail excess intermediate stock building up in between production steps and jeopardizing margins.

In a line of business where most players merely focus on managing backlog, true captains of industry commit to reducing delivery times. But, given the typical length of production chains, this mind switch towards individual orders with short run times is not easy.

More agile with Unison Planning™

OMP for Metals uses Unison Planning™ as a unique solution empowering business leaders to make sense of volatile markets and supply disruptions. The telescopic digital twin links all the planning horizons and layers. As a result, tactical and operational planning remain perfectly aligned at any given time.

Flawless data management and integration features use real-time data to inform reality-based planning. When a ten-minute discrepancy between production steps can potentially push back an order for weeks, this live connection between planning and factory floor is absolutely essential.

Built-in AI, ML, and solvers allow for dynamically generated bills of materials and routing plans, covering successive production stages across multiple interconnected plants — including those operated by subcontractors — as well as materials-based or order attribute-based allocation. At the same time, the embedded intelligence puts you firmly in control of processing costs, the optimal mix of raw materials and scrap and, indeed, the entire production process, all while yielding higher margins.

Invest wisely for later, start planning smarter now

Smart decision makers are already stepping up initiatives to phase out blast furnaces in favor of electric arc furnaces, pending a technological breakthrough in hydrogen as an alternative fuel. Promising as this sounds, such investments only affect the baseline in the long run. Luckily, we can still push forward, by planning smarter today.

Shrinking carbon footprint with Unison Planning™

OMP for Metals relies on Unison Planning™‘s advanced logic and scientific backbone to realize immediate cuts in carbon footprint by up to a staggering 20%. Smarter campaign planning allows more continuous flow planning. With less material cooling mid-process, major savings in both energy and emissions are possible. As a bonus, advanced solvers and material allocators optimize yield ratios and raw material mixes while cutting down on scrap and economizing on scarce resources and energies.

Planning, simulation, and CO2 reporting

OMP for Metals brings even greater benefits. It allows decision makers to integrate CO₂ as one of the key parameters in the overall value-optimization exercise, and simultaneously find an optimal balance over multiple KPIs. It also produces reliable reports on both historic and future emissions, useful when preparing CO₂ audits or forward projections required to backup BTA (best available technology) claims when filing (free or paid) emission certificates.