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Paper Industry

Greycon's supply chain and production planning systems have been in use for more than 25 years in the paper industry, providing benefits to a wide spectrum of clients, from the small stand-alone specialist mill, to large multi-mill situations with integrated converting plants.

Greycon is also a member of the SAP Industry Value Network for Forest and Paper. This allows it to share its extensive experience in delivering supply chain and production planning solutions with a broad range of partners and corporations. The SAP Industry Value Network program promotes the collaboration of industry-leading customers, independent software vendors, system integrators, technology vendors and SAP to the benefit of the paper industry as a whole.

Benefiting from continuous improvement and the widest installed base in the industry, some of the unique features of the Greycon solution are:

Industry-specific supply chain optimisation addressing multi-mill situations

  • Supply network optimisation
  • Non-linear run optimisation to trade-off grade transition costs against customer service requirements
  • Paper machine and finishing optimisation and integration of trim considerations into inventory policy
  • Seamless make-to-stock / make-to-order / mixed policies
  • Multi-machine trim optimisation that takes into account transportation costs and sourcing constraints

Mill-level Optimisation

  • Used by some of the most complex mills in the world
  • Trim optimisation at both the planning level and dynamically at the winder
  • Lightweight Manufacturing Execution System, interfaced to SAP and to OSI
  • Optimisation-based block scheduling

Enterprise-class deployment

  • Scaleable client-server architecture
  • Internationalisation including Far Eastern character sets
  • Certified interface to SAP
  • Product-based software development