Supply chains and business planning cycles are typically approached by breaking logistics, manufacturing and sales decisions into smaller problems, with different business divisions and salespeople making choices relating to their area, and the resulting recommendations combined.

Traditionally this has been necessary because a typical planning problem has thousands of interacting possibilities which far exceed the capabilities of a planning team to numerically optimise. However this approach has numerous inefficiencies, creates planning cycles that break as soon as one input needs to be modified, and causes duplication of work due to short-term and long-term planning efforts using different models, software and assumptions.

In contrast, Streamline Consulting has developed and refined planning systems that break this paradigm by building a single model from collection of raw materials through to shipping of finished goods and performing a single global optimisation. Our software maps all the interactions using thousands of variables and provides extremely detailed forecasts of future inventory movements, sales quantities/revenue and required purchases and transport plans. In some cases, we have taken monthly planning processes that take 40+ hours to complete and shrunk them down to a 5 minutes process using innovative user interfaces with a powerful optimisation algorithm.

Our software solutions and expertise are particularly effective in dairy processing, manufacturing and construction. Please contact us for a demonstration.