BUSINESS LEADERS IN paper, plastic film, and packaging

Alignment within and beyond company walls

Supply chains work best when all the stakeholders in the value chain are collaborating as one team, and it’s a principle that extends beyond company walls. Business leaders have come to understand the strategic importance of strengthening their ties with customers and suppliers alike, closing selective swap deals with competitors, and achieving closer collaboration through VMI-based planning.

OMP for Paper & Plastic Film and OMP for Packaging help business leaders successfully cope with all these challenges. OMP’s open platform, built on the unique Unison Planning™ technology, generates instant end-to-end visibility over the entire value chain. Real time insights into shopfloor production, changes in customer demand, commercial commitments, delivery status, and stock levels at the customers site, facilitate collaboration within the company and beyond.

When excessive raw material and energy prices put margins under extreme pressure, business leaders, particularly from major conglomerates, appreciate the capacity of OMP’s industry solutions for integrated planning across every horizon and role in a multi-enterprise context. Being able to make smart decisions on sourcing, production location, and make-or-buy questions, as well as having the power to optimize value through better alignment within the corporate network, make a world of difference.

OMP’s planning solutions also serve a more strategic purpose. Business leaders are discovering the advantages of planning solutions that empower them to make wiser long-term corporate investment decisions at a time when the industry faces a rise in mergers, acquisitions, plant rebuilds, and new investment. With the OMP Solution they can design the optimal supply chain network covering every manufacturing and distribution facility, whatever the scale and no matter how complex.

The technology is based on Unison Planning™ ‘one-model, one plan’ logic, its architecture reflecting the concept that everything is connected. As a result, OMP’s industry solutions for paper, plastic film, and packaging guarantee seamlessly synchronized network planning, S&OP, demand management, operational planning, scheduling and implementation on the shop floor.

Better agility in dynamic markets

Short lead times require rapid response when markets are volatile, as well as in make-to-order environments. OMP’s industry solutions for paper, plastic film and packaging dramatically improve supply chain agility, from sourcing to delivery, providing a real-time overview of available raw materials, machine capacity, and transport planning. OMP solutions immediately identify any disruption to raw material supply, as well as unexpected machine breakdowns, production glitches, changeovers, or logistics mismatches.

These planning tools then either automatically generate optimizations to the proposal or prompt the planner to take corrective action, based on a range of alternative scenarios and clear analytical evaluation. The embedded intelligence with its acclaimed solvers even allows product composition, machine allocation, and transport plans to be adjusted dynamically, while optimizing contract management with customers, suppliers and logistic partners — boosting response and assuring greater value at the same time.

OMP’s industry solutions also support order promising, demand management, and S&OP processes. The planning technology assesses whether to accept that last-minute order and how it can be produced and shipped profitably. It balances supply and demand, monitors for gaps, and automatically proposes smart scenario alternatives to resolve any issue that could be on the horizon. Intelligent forecasting and S&OP tools even help to finetune your campaign programs in response to unpredictable demand dynamics.

With the aid of OMP for Paper & Plastic Film and OMP for Packaging, decision makers find out sooner what’s about to hit them so they can respond faster and smarter. Seamless integration between the planning solution and MES systems means they can be confident that every planning proposal can be carried out effectively on the shop floor.

Achieving excellence and creating value

Investing in operational excellence while optimizing overall value and reducing ecological footprint gets a lot easier with the right planning solution.

OMP’s industry solutions for paper, plastic film, and packaging contain powerful tools for planning, cutting, multistage trimming, scheduling, retrimming, and integrated logistics. All these elements combine to optimize sourcing, and raw material and energy consumption — while fully respecting the challenge of sustainability. The solutions also help cut operational costs, reduce stock and waste levels, improve margins, maximize yield, and even minimize overtime and weekend working.

The technology’s embedded intelligence carries out balanced value stream optimization using multiple financial and non-financial KPIs simultaneously, based on realistic costs and taking into account all the complexity of manufacturing and distribution. These include different machine capabilities and constraints, as well as logistic parameters. The software applies load balancing to book or allocate capacity for strategic customers, and handles integrated transport planning as part of operational planning. As a result, the impact of any disruption in the production environment can be balanced directly by the transport planning — and vice versa.

OMP’s Data Genie unlocks valuable information from data hidden deep within your value chain. This empowers decision makers to identify and tackle efficiency losses in the production process and dramatically improve forecasting accuracy — resulting in better service levels and lower inventory build-up.

The OMP technology empowers business leaders to reinforce their sustainability impact. It incorporates energy and emissions as planning parameters, adds sustainability KPIs to the global optimization exercise, and balances sourcing, transport and manufacturing decisions over the entire value chain in one go. This way, OMP for Paper & Plastic Film and OMP for Packaging help to cut down on water and fossil fuel use, as well as other forms of energy, minimizing carbon footprint while optimizing overall value. As a bonus, the planning solution readily provides the necessary data to support CO₂ and NO_X emission reporting as part of sustainability license, permit and documentation processes.