aspenONE® Supply Chain for Specialty Chemicals
Provides manufacturers the opportunity to improve operational efficiency through improved planning and scheduling of the production and distribution process, taking into account real-time customer demand and operating constraints
The real-time visibility and easy-to-use interface provided by aspenONE Supply Chain for Specialty Chemicals leverages a Microsoft® look and feel to help users navigate supply chain complexity, providing fast access to information that can expedite profitable responses to unexpected market conditions. It reduces inventory costs by enabling you to identify the optimum levels to achieve your customer service goals, while balancing them against production and distribution costs. Its standard framework for modeling simple to complex processes ensures consistency in standards, enabling long-term maintainability and sustained economic value. As Specialty Chemicals becomes more complex with more products, assets, and customers, it's critical that companies have increased supply chain visibility to handle exceptions and take advantage of market opportunities.
aspenONE Supply Chain for Specialty Chemicals enables you to:
- Synchronize production with true customer demand, preventing misallocation of scarce resources
- Combine historical and real-time data to generate the most accurate forecasts, and manage them through changes in the business environment to maximize profitability and increase customer service
- Maximize supply chain agility by constantly balancing supply and demand on an enterprise-wide scale based on dynamic market conditions
- Navigate the applications with an easy-to-use interface and personalized layouts, allowing users to quickly discover and access advanced functions
- Easily identify the most critical problems and constraints in the supply chain and take steps to resolve them with pre-configured analysis
- Increase production and supply efficiencies through higher utilization, improved customer service, and fewer lost sales
- Manage and optimize a broad product mix with multiple recipes and grades
- Deliver superior customer service without excessive inventories
- Accurately model the production process-typically a combination of continuous and batch-with multiple production stages and dependencies
- Adjust the schedule with the help of real-time feedback on raw material availability, equipment constraints, and batch dependencies
- Stabilize operations by providing manufacturing visibility to the production schedule
- Collect, organize, and report on manufacturing process information to provide monitoring and analysis for batch processes