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
