Make Better Business Decisions with Planning and Scheduling Software
| The pharmaceutical industry is faced with an extreme version of many of the standard challenges facing process manufacturers. Typically, the pharmaceutical manufacturing process—whether it be based on traditional chemistry-based or on new biotech processes—is characterized by a high number of process steps and much longer cycle times than exist in other industries. Add a high rate of manufacturing process innovation, and you have a significantly more complex planning and scheduling environment.
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ILOG optimization solutions plug into existing enterprise software
ILOG optimization technology leverages your company's existing IT assets, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) systems. Best-of-breed optimization solutions from ILOG help improve overall operational efficiency by one to five percent, lower inventory costs and reduce the cost of waste and changeover significantly. Fortunately, these challenging problems can be solved with ILOG Plant PowerOps.
ILOG's solutions for the pharmaceutical industry include:
ILOG Plant Power Ops—The only application of its kind: a completely integrated solution for production planning and detailed scheduling. This solution addresses problems such as multi-dimensional changeovers, cleaning-in-place, convergent and divergent material flows, the management of raw and intermediate products, and tank management.
The application's integrated planning and scheduling lets you coordinate intermediate product production and finished goods production based on demand, shelf life, production lead times, and cleaning requirements. Mid- and long-term plans are generated with schedules that are both feasible and optimal. Plans can be executed with minimal user intervention so that planners can focus on managing exceptions instead of spending time manually repairing schedule breakdowns.
ILOG Optimization Decision Management System (ODMS)—Sometimes an application that addresses your specific planning or scheduling trade-offs isn't available. Sometimes, an application with perfectly acceptable analytical capabilities simply doesn't give you the quality of what-if analysis or scenario comparison you might need to master the economics and trade-offs in your business. ILOG ODMS is the first system designed to help you build custom planning or scheduling applications to meet your specific needs.
Next steps
Get more information about how ILOG can help your company improve efficiency and service levels while successfully dealing with challenges in the pharmaceutical industry.
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