Optimizing Your Metals Supply Chain, Together

From increasing yield and reducing waste to mastering scheduling and elevating your planning, we can help you forge supply chain resilience and agility.

What our customers say about us

“The collaboration has empowered us to streamline planning processes and make fast, data-driven decisions.”

— Jonathan Haynes

Asset Manager, Glencore

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The challenge

We understand your challenges: demand volatility, persistent excess inventory, complex customer requirements, and ever-increasing sustainability requirements. Additionally, trade flow disruptions, a widening workforce skills gap, and declining access to quality resources, make planning your metals supply chain a unique puzzle.

What’s more, if you have legacy planning tools, you may be struggling to keep up with innovation in the industry. But you don’t have to do this alone. We can help you forge a supply chain that is resilient, agile, visible, and sustainable. That comes from identifying opportunities and delivering on them.

  • Situation
    Legacy systems force you to rework plans at every level.
  • Complication
    Using spreadsheets, ERPs, or isolated planning tools prevents collaboration across stakeholders.
  • Question
    How do you standardize planning and reporting standards?
  • Answer
    Create company-wide plans that align different entities within the supply chain with an integrated planning solution.
  • Situation
    Your supply chain is divided into localized sub-plans.
  • Complication
    There is limited visibility over your whole operation – Materials Allocation, Distribution Requirements, and Master Production Schedules.
  • Question
    How do you improve inventory control?
  • Answer
    Digitalize your operations to reduce excess inventory and material wastage.
  • Situation
    Plans are often complex, involving global distribution centers, stocking points.
  • Complication
    Planners are not supported with the correct tools to resolve process bottlenecks, high work-in-progress orders, and order lead time, to name a few.
  • Question
    How do you support your planners in making better decisions?
  • Answer
    Implement a solution that calculates several outcomes at the same time to reduce errors and save time.
  • Situation
    There is an increased focus on sustainability regulations and the need to be green.
  • Complication
    Sustainability and ESG targets increase your production, material, and energy costs, reducing revenues and profits.
  • Question
    How do you balance sustainability with meeting customer SLAs whilst still being profitable?
  • Answer
    A solution offering S&OP, MPS, and detailed scheduling can help you reduce wastage and cost as well as improve operational agility.
  • Situation
    Decisions involving replenishing and reserving materials are often made based on heuristics.
  • Complication
    While rule-of-thumb decisions may be practical, they are not optimal, leading to inefficiency and shorter planning horizons.
  • Question
    How can you make better reservation decisions and improve my operational KPIs?
  • Answer
    Make better decisions with longer planning horizons that align with your operational goals and KPIs.
  • Situation
    As planning is a time-boxed exercise, it is easier to make decisions in the short term.
  • Complication
    But the long-term impact is difficult to verify and confirm.
  • Question
    How can your planners make better and longer-term plans?
  • Answer
    Advanced planning tools enable planners to do more in the time available whilst improving overall plan quality and deliverability.
Planning Silos
  • Situation
    Legacy systems force you to rework plans at every level.
  • Complication
    Using spreadsheets, ERPs, or isolated planning tools prevents collaboration across stakeholders.
  • Question
    How do you standardize planning and reporting standards?
  • Answer
    Create company-wide plans that align different entities within the supply chain with an integrated planning solution.
  • Situation
    Your supply chain is divided into localized sub-plans.
  • Complication
    There is limited visibility over your whole operation – Materials Allocation, Distribution Requirements, and Master Production Schedules.
  • Question
    How do you improve inventory control?
  • Answer
    Digitalize your operations to reduce excess inventory and material wastage.
  • Situation
    Plans are often complex, involving global distribution centers, stocking points.
  • Complication
    Planners are not supported with the correct tools to resolve process bottlenecks, high work-in-progress orders, and order lead time, to name a few.
  • Question
    How do you support your planners in making better decisions?
  • Answer
    Implement a solution that calculates several outcomes at the same time to reduce errors and save time.
  • Situation
    There is an increased focus on sustainability regulations and the need to be green.
  • Complication
    Sustainability and ESG targets increase your production, material, and energy costs, reducing revenues and profits.
  • Question
    How do you balance sustainability with meeting customer SLAs whilst still being profitable?
  • Answer
    A solution offering S&OP, MPS, and detailed scheduling can help you reduce wastage and cost as well as improve operational agility.
  • Situation
    Decisions involving replenishing and reserving materials are often made based on heuristics.
  • Complication
    While rule-of-thumb decisions may be practical, they are not optimal, leading to inefficiency and shorter planning horizons.
  • Question
    How can you make better reservation decisions and improve my operational KPIs?
  • Answer
    Make better decisions with longer planning horizons that align with your operational goals and KPIs.
  • Situation
    As planning is a time-boxed exercise, it is easier to make decisions in the short term.
  • Complication
    But the long-term impact is difficult to verify and confirm.
  • Question
    How can your planners make better and longer-term plans?
  • Answer
    Advanced planning tools enable planners to do more in the time available whilst improving overall plan quality and deliverability.

Drive long-term manufacturing improvements with The Logic Factory

Through our combined industry knowledge and perfect fit solutions, you stand to benefit by:

Creating a single source of truth

By centralizing data management and removing data silos, improve the visibility of your global supply chain.

Improving forecast accuracy and operational agility

Develop optimal statistical forecasts with attribute-based demand forecasting. Create supply plans that maximize resource usage, increase turnover, and reduce working capital.

Improving decision-making, productivity, and delivery performance

Real-time insights and KPI-driven optimization can help you build a plan that increases on-time delivery and improves throughput.

Mastering complex scheduling

Streamline production planning, leverage smart capacity planning, and gain end-to-end supply chain visibility. Optimize complex scheduling, including casting, hot rolling, cold rolling, and finishing operations.

Simulating what-if scenarios

Be responsive in a rapidly changing world. Simulate what-if scenarios to help your operations become more agile, resilient, and sustainable.

Enhancing production planning

Achieve complete visibility of upstream and downstream work orders and material flow synchronization. Boost production and reduce wastage of raw materials.

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