Chemicals

Optiant’s solution for Chemicals builds the world’s most efficient, robust, and responsive supply chains.

The chemical industry is facing mounting pressures due to spiking feedstock, rising energy costs and inability to raise prices - resulting in pressure on company margins. Additional problems such as unpredictable transportation and uncertainty in the supply of raw materials compound the need for a responsive and resilient supply chain. Optiant’s Chemical Solution is designed to help companies more efficiently manage the chemical supply chain and address these and other issues such as duplicative and underutilized assets.

Through Optiant’s robust PowerChain Suite, Chemical customers can enhance profitability, growth, and free up resources to pursue emerging markets and new partnerships.

Solution Benefits

• Reduces supply chain costs by 30% and ensures fulfillment reliability
• Focuses on increasing productivity of fixed assets and workforce
• Speeds valuation of complex and interdependent value chain strategies

Chemicals Solution Benefits & Related Capabilities

• Best in class modeling environment that can model supply chain operational constraints accurately
• Recommended inventory policies that attain service target levels despite uncertain demand and supply
• True multi-echelon inventory optimization to minimize total supply chain costs

• Optimization of multi-product trade-offs of batch sizes and set-up costs
• Rationalization of changeover policy given shared production and tank capacity constraints
• Quick identification of underutilized capacity assets

• Rapid analysis of alternate value chain scenarios – postponement, SMI and VMI, Feedstock contracts
• Accurate model of total costing of each scenario to support better operational planning and budgeting decisions
• State-of-the-art web-based collaborative modeling and planning technologies