Greycon is currently implementing its trim solution, X-Trim on four Paper machines at Jianhui Paper in Dongguan city of China. Dongguan Jianhui Paper is one of the biggest Paper and pulp manufacturer’s in China’s Paper industry.
Greycon will implement X-Trim for trimming optimisation integrating with Jianhui Paper’s ERP system, Inspur. Implementation began in July 2017 and the project is expected to go live in December 2017.
Mr Liu Mingwei, CFO at Jianhui Paper said: “We are looking forward to reaping the benefits of Greycon’s system. Greycon has made the implementation process as easy as possible by integrating with our own ERP system. Greycon’s system will give us more time for business analysis and strategic thinking.”
Greycon’s new system is expected to bring numerous benefits to Dongguan Jianhui Paper at multiple levels. Reducing trim waste, minimising pattern and knife change numbers and in-turn greatly increase Jianhui’s overall equipment efficiency. Stock to trim will significantly reduce the stock amount and cost. Meanwhile, X-Trim will minimise manual dependence and personnel faults during the trim process and improve the customer service level.
“X-Trim is integrated with Inspur ERP, through the integration. X-Trim can be fully localised to meet the needs of each machine. In general, the new automated and integrated system processes will provide Dongguan Jianhui Paper the ability to focus over strategic and operative group improvement, increase industrious competitiveness and bring more time for business analysis and strategic thinking,” commented Tian Jinlong, Greycon.
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, forecasting, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
About Jianhui Paper
Dongguan Jianhui Paper Co., Ltd was established in December 2002. The company is located at Huangchong Village, Zhongtang Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province. It connects Dongguan-Shenzhen Expressway to its east, with its west connecting Guang-Yuan Express Main Line; its south connecting National Route 107 and Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, and its north connecting Dongjiang Golden Watercourse. There is a dense distribution of water and land communication networks sharing a very favorable geographic location. The company has been provided with its own docks, team of vehicles, logistics distribution and after-sale service, which are unblocked and convenient.
The Company specialises in the manufacture of deluxe single-sided duplex board with grey back with the productivity ranking the first in the world. The company provides fixed quantity of 230~450g/㎡, various specifications of flat boards, roll type duplex board with grey back. Its leading products “Jianhui” brand duplex board with grey back has been highly appraised by customers at home and abroad since its launch of products into markets. It has been awarded the famous trademark in Guangdong Province in 2008 and the title of famous brand products in Guangdong Province in 2009. The Company has been chosen as an enterprise with National Quality Level A trust.
Greycon has today announced the 9.2 release of its planning tools, X-Trim® and opt-Studio™.
X-Trim new developments include:
opt-Studio new developments include:
Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon, said: “Growth in both our installed user base and internal development resources has enabled us to deliver this version to the market quickly. Improvements include new features as well as enhancements. Trials at one of Greycon’s plastic film clients resulted in a waste reduction from 8% to 3% in one instance, results that are in keeping with our goal of striving to maximise efficiencies, be it by improving material utilisation, productivity or rapid responses to unforeseen problems.”
About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, forecasting, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
London, England. – On April 10, 2017 Greycon successfully completed the fourth stage of a five wave implementation at Resolute Forest Products in Montreal, QC. Resolute initiated the global template rollout campaign to establish Greycon’s X-Trim solution as the company standard trim optimisation system.
Resolute is a global leader in the forest products industry marketing to over 80 countries worldwide and own or operate over 40 Mills. Resolute manufactures pulp, paper, tissue and wood products for clients based in the United States, Canada and South Korea.
Jay Jordan, Sales Manager for North America states: “We are very happy with the progress so far of Resolute’s rollout campaign. Establishing a new system in a company can always be challenging especially when you have multiple sites that need to be aligned. This is why we are so pleased with the X-Trim solution, it integrates seamlessly with SAP, showing Resolute a significant difference almost instantaneously.”
Greycon completed the first wave on February 1st 2015. Since then Greycon’s X-Trim solution has been implemented at 14 Mills. Currently Resolule is implementing the final roll out to go-live in September 2017 which will complete the campaign totalling 16 Mills, all of which are integrated with Resolute’s SAP/APO system.
X-Trim has provided many benefits to Resolute since its implementation, some of which are: it’s easy to use interface, visualised solution and superior waste reduction. Greycon’s certified ‘Interface for Industry-Specific Optimisers’ for APO allows Resolute quick configuration and deployment throughout each wave of the project. Allowing a seamless interface between X-Trim and APO.
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 Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals, Converting, Paper and Board industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com
About Resolute
Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including market pulp, wood products, tissue, newsprint and specialty papers.
The company owns or operates over 40 pulp, paper, tissue and wood products facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea, as well as power generation assets in Canada and the United States.
Marketing its products in close to 80 countries, Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed woodlands to internationally recognised sustainable forest management standards.
Resolute has received regional, North American and global recognition for its leadership in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, as well as for its business practices.
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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.
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Constantine Goulimis, Greycon’s CEO was recently one of the Exclusive Keynote Speakers at OR59 on 12-14th 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
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Arctic Paper has contracted Greycon to upgrade to their system with Greycon’s latest scheduling and trim optimisation solutions, opt-Studio and X-Trim.
In 2002 Greycon first implemented S-Plan and X-Trim at Arctic Paper’s paper mills based in Kostrzyn, Poland. Since then Artic Paper has been a long-standing client of Greycon’s.
Arctic Paper Kostrzyn S.A. is the largest manufacturer of offset papers in Poland. The mill produces over 280,000 tonnes of high quality papers both in reels and sheets every year. More than 75% of this is exported to countries like Germany, Great Britain, France and the Benelux.
Greycon’s solutions have been fundamental to the continued success of Arctic Paper’s production. The Greycon planning solution tightly integrated with the Mill’s manufacturing execution systems forms a critical component in the daily management of Arctic Paper’s operation.
Esa Orola, Global Consultancy Manager of Greycon says “We are really pleased with the results and project execution at Arctic Paper. The Kostrzyn team are able to improve their performance with our latest solutions. It has been really nice to witness. Arctic Paper wanted this project managed by Greycon and to work closely with the Greycon team to adopt the recommended best practices across the operation.”
The migration to opt-Studio and X-Trim’s latest releases has delivered additional benefits to Arctic Paper. There is improved usability and performance, compared to the existing daily scheduling solution from Greycon, which kept the mill in operation 24/7. Incoming orders are automatically scheduled into runs and trimmed with market leading algorithms to minimise waste at the winder and cutter machines.
“One of the benefits we are really pleased with in the new Greycon solution is the enhanced functionality. There is quite a lot in there. One exceptional aspect worth mentioning is that the other departments did not even notice that the old system disappeared and a new one came instead. This means of course that the integration was functioning very smoothly from day one. The implementation team were excellent and completed thorough tests to make this happen.” says Mr. Piotr Stolowski, Planning and Supply Chain Manager, from Arctic Paper.
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 operates throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of planning, scheduling and MES 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
About Arctic Paper
Arctic Paper S.A. delivers value, reading pleasure and a sense of touch through quality paper grades.
As a leading European producer of high-quality graphic papers, with annual revenues of approximately PLN 3 billion company is listed on the Warsaw and the NASDAQ Stockholm stock exchanges.
Annually, Arctic Paper delivers over 700,000 tonnes of premium graphic paper – for quality printing, reading and branding purposes – produced by more than 1,250 dedicated employees at three mills and distributed by 14 sales offices. Arctic Paper prioritises a strategy of sharp focus on cost minimising, on flexibility and on efficiency of different units in order to further strengthen the market share in the mature and declining paper market.
www.arcticpaper.com
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Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon, will be one of the Keynote speakers and will be presenting a paper on KBP: A New Pattern Reduction Heuristic for the Cutting Stock Problem at the upcoming OR Society Annual Conference (OR59).
OR59 will be taking place on 12-14th September 2017 in Loughborough University, UK. There will be plenary speakers, keynote speakers, around 200 paper presentations in streams ranging from analytics to transport, the unique practitioner/academic collaboration sessions, a varied social programme plus much more.
Constantine will be presenting results for two variants on a new type of heuristic, which is computationally cheap and nicely complements previous ones. The paper is 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.
To find out more about OR59 or to book your place to see Greycon’s presentation please visit www.theorsociety.com
About OR Society
Founded over 60 years ago in succession to the Operational Research Club which was set up in 1948, The UK’s OR Society is the world’s oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research (O.R.) profession, and one of the largest in the world, with 2,700 members in 66 countries.
www.theorsociety.com
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
The partnership between Greycon and SRF Polyester Film Division started in 2012 when the division selected Greycon’s X-Trim for the slitting optimisation of its BOPET plant in Indore (India). The selection process involved many providers evaluated through a detailed trial using real-life data by SRF team.
X-Trim stood out for the optimisation results showing:
Following this initial successful implementation, SRF rolled out the solution to their new sites in:
Both sites are greenfield and are fully operational with X-Trim integrated with Oracle EBS.
Anil Gupta, SRF VP-IT in charge of the group information systems, commented that: “I am very pleased with our choice of X-Trim and Greycon as partner. Greycon team has shown consistent commitment at all stages including making some adaptation to the solution reports for our shopfloor instructions needs. The planning teams at each site mentioned they are very excited and comfortable using X-Trim after the first week of training. It is an extremely fast tool which simulates different scenarios”.
Abder Guezour, Global Business Development Manager at Greycon says: “I have done some implementation work myself directly working with SRF team together with our partner in India, Sharad Mittal. I enjoyed working with the team backed by the results we have obtained with X-Trim, the approach of SRF to adopt new business processes to yield further benefits. I am also pleased to see SRF team and our team of consultants & support interacting regularly ensuring knowledge sharing and keeping up-to-date with recent versions of the system”.
About SRF
With operations in three countries, SRF provides flexible packaging solution to a wide gamut of applications ranging from food to non-food both in the category of fast moving consumer goods and industrial products. The company takes a justifiable pride in enjoying its customers’ preference based on their consistent experience of ‘Easy To Do Business With’, a motto that SRF stands committed to.
Equipped with state-of-the-art production facilities, SRF is one of the largest manufacturers of a spectrum of standard and speciality Bi-axially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) and Bi-axially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) films. SRF exports packaging films to around 70 countries.
Conforming to the global standards, SRF’s packaging films are predominantly used in flexible packaging of soaps, detergents, tea, shampoo sachets, food packaging, cable, insulation, ducting tape, textile etc.
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.
Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700
Greycon was appointed by Tatrafan to implement a trim optimisation solution after a careful evaluation of the current slit optimisation system at Tatrafan’s plant in Svit, Slovakia. Tatrafan is a BOPP (Bi-Oriented Polypropylene) packaging film producer part of the Terichem Group and produce 17,000 tonnes of packaging film per annum.
After a successful pilot where some of the benefits from Greycon’s solution included; reduction of trim waste and optimisation of knife changes. Tatrafan could see the benefits to implementing Greycon’s trim optimisation solution, X-Trim. X-Trim was integrated with Tatrafan’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, SAP.
Jari Kaukiainen, Sales Manager for EMEA states; “Tatrafan represents a great example where the benefits became obvious through a small pilot project before the implementation. This is one of those supercool aspects with the X-Trim solution, as it is possible to run X-Trim as a stand-alone solution for a period and afterwards integrate it seamlessly with SAP, showing Tatrafan a significant improvement almost from day one.”
“We were very happy to continue on from the successful pilot project and move Greycon’s state of the art optimising tool into daily production at Tatrafan. It is the combination of the various efficiency improvements such as waste minimisation, optimisation of knife changes, minimisation of number of patterns as well as managing different winder types combined with the easy-to-use trim solution which make a difference in Tatrafan’s daily production processes” comments Martin Lach, Managing Director at Tatrafan.
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 operates 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 Tatrafan/Terichem
More than 80 years of tradition of packaging film and BOPP film production in Slovakia and Finland created the foundations on which Terichem was built.
Terichem is the joint venture of Finnish company Ab Rani Plast Oy and the Slovak company CHEMOSVIT, a.s. with production sites in Slovakia, Finland and Ukraine.
For the last 20 years Terichem has been operating successfully in the global market of BOPP film manufacturers and suppliers under the brand TERICHEM.
Since 1.1.2017 Terichem operates in the market of BOPP film for packaging of tobacco, food and other products under the brand TATRAFAN. The division for BOPP film for production of capacitors is separate and operates today under the brand Tervakoski film.
www.terichem.sk
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Greycon is pleased to announce their Greycon Suite, combining X-Trim, opt-Studio and GreyconMill has now received Citrix Ready Verification.
The Citrix Ready Program showcases verified products that are trusted to enhance Citrix solutions for mobility, virtualisation, networking and cloud platforms. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third-party software providers whose products have successfully met test criteria set by Citrix. It gives customers added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering.
Greycon Suite is now compatible with XenAPP and XenDesktop versions 7.0 – 7.13. Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop virtualisation provides a complete, flexible solution that delivers Windows applications and desktops to any user on any device.
Constantine Goulimis, Greycon CEO stated: “We are very happy with collaboration and the opportunity for Greycon to utilise the benefits of Citrix’s partner programme. Many of our clients have been using our products on a Citrix platform already, but this additional step provides an added layer of confidence. We are always looking for new ways to improve our relationship and service standards with our clients.”
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 (0)207 978 0700
Greycon is expanding their global reach into the ASEAN region by employing more consultants local to their customers. One of the most recent additions to Greycon’s expansion is Indonesia where Greycon has appointed Mario Laksmana as the new Sales Manager for the ASEAN region.
Greycon has been winning new business with major players in Thailand and India like Cosmo Films, SRF, Trident Paper, Siam Kraft, by combining knowledge and skills with local resident experts. Greycon has made this possible by developing and growing over the last 30 years to establish itself in key global locations with over 500 sites in 40 countries.
Mario Laksmana, Sales Manager at Greycon commented: “After hearing about Greycon’s reputation and success in the industry. I was excited to be part of an innovative company and help to expand the business throughout the ASEAN region. I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds at Greycon. Forging new relationships and building on old ones.”
Mario has been associated with Business Development and Consultancy, providing end-to-end IT Solutions for various industries. Starting in 2011 he has been concentrating on Enterprise Systems & Software Business for the manufacturing industry through joining recognised ERP companies like SAP and INFOR, with Supply Chain Management as part of his interest.
Greycon’s strength is in providing a suite of solutions that understand the complexity of roll-base and flat-sheet material production. There are currently 2000+ planners worldwide using Greycon systems every day. This number is continuously rising as is Greycon’s presence in the global market.
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
London – April 2017 – Greycon today announced its Greycon Suite 8.9 has achieved certified integration with SAP® Business Suite software and the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation (SAP APO) component. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP APO providing another step forward on the road to Greycon fully integrating with SAP HANA.
The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that Greycon Suite solution version 8.9 integrates with SAP APO to exchange critical data with instances of SAP Business Suite software.
Abder Guezour, VP Global Sales, commented from Greycon: “Greycon software has been certified by SAP for a number of years now and this certification is important for our clients as many of them use SAP APO. Greycon’s systems are designed to be open and to work with our clients own systems, recertifying with SAP proves we do this.”
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 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
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Pyroll Converting recently appointed Greycon to implement their central planning solution, opt-Studio, across 4 of Pyroll converting locations in Europe. The implementation started at the beginning of February 2017 with a pilot mill in the Netherlands and is due to go live by the end of May 2017. Greycon will install opt-Studio at a further 3 mills by the end of 2017.
Pyroll Group is one of the leading paper, cardboard, paperboard, and plastic converters in the Nordic countries, with operations spanning fourteen locations. Pyroll converting provides sheeting and rewinding services handling over 300,000 tons of paper and paperboard annually. Pyroll is the leader in its field in Europe and a pioneer even globally.
Jarmo Sara, Production Director, at Pyroll Converting commented “We are looking forward to complete the implementation of Greycon’s solution and the improvements it will allow for our production. Pyroll looks forward to the already justified improvements in overall production efficiency and thus an increase in production capacity. The multisite schedule optimisation capability allows Pyroll to utilise centralised production planning to support global customer service. Integrating Greycon’s planning solution with our current ERP system will bring our planners and management the extra time needed for moving from reactive-based decision making to proactive-based instead.”
Before the implementation Greycon and Pyroll executed a comparison in order to find out how the schedules created by opt-Studio would compare with the current system at Pyroll. Substantial savings were identified in this head to head comparison convincing Pyroll management to progress to solution implementation and further roll-outs.
Jari Kaukiainen, Business Development manager, EMEA, at Greycon says: “The implementation of opt-Studio will bring multiple benefits to Pyroll. The optimised schedules will improve the production throughput and will allow Pyroll to accept extra sheeting capacity for the customers. Since the system will manage the scheduling of the orders automatically, the effort of the planners will go towards analysing and optimisation instead of the routine work to feed orders and sequence them into the ERP-system.”
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 Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
About Pyroll
Pyroll is one of the leading paper, cardboard, paperboard, and plastic converters in the Nordic countries. Industrial Counsellor Reino Uusitalo founded Pyroll in 1973, and ever since then this Finnish, family-owned corporation has grown purposefully. Currently, Pyroll has operations in fourteen locations in Finland, as well as in Poland and Netherlands. Pyroll employs over 500 people, and our turnover is nearly €100 million.
www.pyroll.com
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