Greycon is pleased to announce the release of its latest product, Greycon Forecasting. This release is a welcome addition to the Greycon product family.

Greycon Forecasting is a sophisticated solution which uses advanced statistical algorithms and built-in demand management best practises to help you reach your corporate goals. Whether it be sales and service level increase, or lower inventory, distribution and production costs. Greycon Forecasting takes into account actual demand history, external causal factors and collaborative market intelligence input and produces an accurate forecast.

Greycon Forecasting is based on Microsoft Business Intelligence technology on the back-end and the familiar Microsoft Excel on the front-end. Greycon Forecasting seamlessly integrates into your business and can be utilised as part of a complete solution with other Greycon products or as a stand-alone solution.

Greycon’s CEO Constantine Goulimis says: “We are really pleased to be able to offer this solution to our clients. The Greycon Forecasting product is an important addition to the Greycon product family and like all our products seamlessly integrates with one another and other standard operating systems. The Greycon Forecasting tool helps us to provide a complete software solution for efficient production and business processes in the Paper, Film and Non-Woven businesses”.

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling, Forecasting and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700

SAICA selected Greycon to implement opt-Studio, Greycon’s advanced scheduling planning system.

All systems went live for the first pilot Mill in France as planned in July, 2017. With this initial go-live, SAICA has improved visibility over French production planning, done completely remotely from Spain offices.

SAICA and Greycon have been partners for more than 12 years. Initially SAICA used Greycon’s opt-Studio trimming capabilities to reduce material waste and machine throughput.

In 2015, SAICA engaged Greycon to implement a complete Supply Chain Management solution, to sustain their increasing Make to Stock market. At the same time, they needed tools to appropriately forecast and plan their dynamic Make to Order market.

Abder Guezour, VP of Global Sales at Greycon states: “Greycon and SAICA have been close business partners for many years. The success of this project makes an even tighter relationship with SAICA for the long term, visioning similar implementations in other key business areas. SAICA’s Supply Chain Management and team had a clear understanding of the business objectives, which is being key for the results that they are obtaining by using the full extent of the new systems”

Greycon’s opt-Studio planning and trimming solution seamlessly integrates with SAICA’s in-house ERP and a Supply Network Planning system Using the sourcing needs provided by Supply Network and Demand Forecasting systems opt-Studio automatically produces an optimized production plan, considering machine restrictions, setup costs and order due dates, dramatically improving service levels, addressing inventory replenishment due dates and reducing machine downtime.

Fernando Pelegrin, Information Systems Manager at SAICA: “Completing our planning solution with Greycon’s software ensures system’s future sustainability and maintenance cost reduction, with a long-standing partner. This new state of the art tools will enable us to quickly evolve with our customer’s needs.”

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for coil-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals Converting and Paper & Board, industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.

About SAICA
The company was founded in 1943 in Zaragoza (Spain). Since then, SAICA has been working and investing in efficient machinery, quality and technology for the benefit of its customers.

SAICA was founded over 70 years ago, but remains a family owned business, which is a market leader in Spain that produces sustainable solutions for paper and board packaging.

SAICA employs 9,000 people in 4 Paper Mills located in Spain, France and London, besides more than 60 packaging factories around Europe.

SAICA Paper is one of the world leaders in the manufacturing of paper for corrugated cardboard with a production capacity of 2,4 million tonnes per year.

www.saica.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700

Constantine Goulimis, Greycon’s CEO was recently one of the Exclusive Keynote Speakers at OR59 on 12-14^th September 2017.

OR59 is the UK’s biggest conference of Operational Research and analytics professionals, academics and practitioners.

The three-day conference was packed with 32 themed stream sessions and workshops, plus some 300 presentations, aimed at sharing knowledge, sparking new ideas, and making new connections.

Constantine presented KBP: A New Pattern Reduction Heuristic for the Cutting Stock Problem. This is a paper on the results from two variants on a new type of heuristic, which is computationally cheap and nicely complements previous ones. The paper was the result of on-going research to reduce the number of slitting patterns, a matter of great importance in some applications, particularly the plastic film industry, where the slitting process can become a bottleneck.

If you would like to learn more on Constantine’s presentation please take a look at the pdf version below:

Greycon was recently appointed by Polímeros y Derivados (PyDSA) to implement their premier advanced scheduling planning system, opt-Studio.

The overall production capacity at PyDSA has increased in recent years as the business keeps growing. This means they required an improved planning and monitoring process to optimise the efficiency of the operations and gain better visibility across all the production lines.

Leví Cortizas, Project Manager at Greycon says: “We are very pleased with the work we completed at PyDSA and the relationship we were able to forge with the client. Greycon’s opt-Studio will bring multiple benefits to PyDSA some of which are: increased visibility on materials constraints and requirements, reduced trim waste and faster and more accurate response to sudden changes in the demand. The first phase of the project has been successfully completed, on-time and on-budget, with very positive feedback from Polímeros planning team”.

PyDSA is currently implementing Microsoft Dynamics as the new ERP. The implementation of opt-Studio designed for the nonwovens industry and integrated with the ERP will support the production efficiency and visibility objectives.

“With Greycon, we have found an excellent partner to optimise our programming ability and to serve our customers with a focus on continuous improvement in our service capability. We are in the process of implementing opt-Studio and are experiencing a real alliance with Greycon.”  Commented Arturo Aramburu, Operations Director at Polímeros y Derivados.

About Polimeros y Derivados
Polímeros y Derivados (PyDSA) is specialised in nonwovens products with two production facilities in the city of Leon, Guanajuato (Mexico). The products are used for different applications: footwear, recovered leather, foundations, construction, canvas, filtration, automotive and cleaning.

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700