The complexity of today’s supply chains,coupled with constant disruptions and ever-present notion of an ‘unconstrained’ environment in which they work, demands food and beverage (F&B) repackaging businesses have a holistic real-time view of their end-to-end supply chain.
When it comes to the repackaging process, for instance, F&B companies need to send multiple varied finished product to repackaging facilities to produce finished retail ready multi-packed product. The use of traditional planning optimisation tools, which assume unlimited supply and several other unconstrained variables for example,
labour, carrier capacity, production capacity, compound existing problems, creating inefficiencies across the supply chain whenever shortages occur and promote a very reactionary way of operating.
Often, the lack of an optimised, constrained plan considering the aforementioned variables result in businesses scrambling to move inventories in their supply network to optimise the production plans for the repackaging facilities...