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Mastering the Metals Supply Chain: How a Global Aluminum Leader Replaced Excel with AI

Managing a complex, multi-stage production process with internal and external partners requires precision—but doing it on Excel leads to downtime and bottlenecks. Discover how the world’s leading producer of rolled aluminum and beverage can recycling leverages o9’s Supply Chain Master Planning to optimize production sequencing, maximize asset availability, and ensure orders are delivered on time and in full.

This industrial manufacturer has a complex, multi-stage production process, including internal and external production operations that must align to enable the best possible performance. By using o9 to match supply and demand across operational steps, the company can plan the optimal sequencing for these steps, maximizing asset availability and streamlining production to improve throughput.

Sustainability impact

Reduction in CO2 emissions.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

The company’s multi-stage process with internal and external operations needed to be sequenced in a way to minimize production downtime. Planning processes have previously only been carried out via Excel.

Solution

With o9’s Supply Planning, they can visualize the plan and enable reporting to ensure orders are fulfilled on-time and in-full (OTIF) as well as proactively identifying resolutions to disruptions that may impact performance.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

  1. o9 Supply Chain Master Planning will be used to match supply and demand across operational steps, visualize the plan, and enable reporting.
  2. o9 is implementing a third-party LP solver to create optimal production plans that sequence internal and external production operations in a way that will minimize downtime.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • The ability to integrate with o9’s open, cloud-native platform helps establish better and more consistent data exchanges between internal and external operations.
  • o9’s alliance partner plays a critical role in helping the company drive its digital transformation.
  • o9’s role as a strategic advisor was essential to helping shape the company’s cloud migration journey.

KPI Impacted

  • Increased on-time and in-full orders
  • Increased OEE
  • CO2 emissions reduction
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