Pulp & Paper
While Forest Products companies have recently experienced strong demand from the construction industry, they have also experienced significant market challenges. Higher raw materials, energy, and transportation rates have driven up production costs. Overcapacity and the nature of demand have meant companies are not able to pass on higher costs to customers in the form of higher prices. In addition, the industry faces higher degrees of complexity driven by changing local demand conditions, regulatory constraints, and requirements of long-term sustainability.
Succeeding in the marketplace will require an ability to "do more with less", to identify the profit opportunities, and to move quickly to capture them. Companies will need to develop the intelligence to identify cost reduction opportunities, making procurement, manufacturing, and logistics more efficient. In addition, companies will need to increase the intelligence and flexibility of their supply chains that would enable them to adjust capacity to market demand and to quickly identify and capture new profit opportunities.
Enterprise Optimizer® is unique in its ability to provide Forest Products executives with the capability to address these success requirements by enabling a unified view of their business. Enterprise Optimizer® can help executives understand the true financial and operational impact of decisions at the strategic, tactical, and operational level. Some key areas where Enterprise Optimizer® has been shown to revolutionise decision-making in the Forest Products sector include:
- Long-term capacity planning
- End-to-end supply chain optimisation
- Product mix optimisation
- Capital investment decisions
- Open/close decisions
- Short-term capacity planning and order allocation
- Log allocation
- Bid support
- Market sales map and opportunity analysis
- Mill optimisation
