Digital enablement
Product Features
Applying Technology
Use Cases
- All
- Marketing
- Logistics
- Finance
- Governance
- Procurement
- Production
- Maintenance
- Staffing
- Customer Service
- Utility
High Frequency Process Data
Data from Sensors, PLC, SCADA, DCS or Process Historians or modern day IoT devices, are critical for real time operation control and monitoring and at the same time rich source of gaining insights.
Social Data Feed
Social data feed is a rich source of information for Marketing, Strategy, Risk Management, PR, Elections, Governance, Disaster management etc.
Ability to meaningfully use them can give significant advantages.
Supporting Supply Chain Control Center
World has realized the importance of Logistics fulfillment by looking at the Ecommerce giants. Own or 3PL, whatever the means of fulfillment, Fleet planning, sizing.
Managing the whole show means dealing with many data pieces, which are fast moving. Creating insights, finding useful exceptions and alerts can help in taking timely action. Supply chain control towers need robust integration backbone.
Supporting Dashboards
Production is the core of value chain. Inbound, outbound logistics support the process.
XPlan supports goods supply chain elements extensively and configuration of different production constraints like continuous / discrete process, recipes/BOM, routings, utility consumption, maintenance, transition sequence etc.
Data Warehouse and Data Lakes
N-Tier networks, Inter-modal transport with Distribution centers (transshipment locations) are common in many commodity industries (Metals, Oil, Chemicals, Cement).
For commodities cost of transport is a significant cost component with respect to price realization of product itself and the volumes are high. This requires careful planning to keep production and sales in sync.
Supporting Workflows & Notifications
Skilled staff planning for moderate size operations (>50 staff) can be difficult task. Skill requirement matching for a given type of job gives rise to several options. Given daily change in requirement, staff leaves and public holidays, labor law compliance, staff compatibilities, contract and payroll staff preferences, the task becomes daunting.
Planning by hand could unknowingly induce bias. Algorithms based assignment helps quick re-scheduling, unbiased and can reduce cost while improving service level.
Feeding Machine Learning Models
Portfolio planning can be applied at multiple places
- Capital towards avenues of investment
- Staff pool towards multiple projects
- Construction resources towards several possible projects
Right balance of optimal resource utilization, cost, returns, risk (customer service, penalties on commitment) cannot be struck in a spreadsheet or a human brain for a sizeable problem. Algorithms can help take decisions on its merits and avoid bias or mistakes.
Data Validation
Annual Operating, make-or-buy/subcontracting, Procurement, Chartering decisions require longer term planning say 1-5 years. Demand Supply balances, resource commitment needs to be done much ahead of time.
Cloud Sync with On-Premise Solutions
Partners for Production, Services, Logistics operations compliment organization ability to serve. Level of outsourcing can be a fine balancing decision between cost, service level, control etc.
XPlan can help plan level of outsourcing while optimizing cost associated and ability to serve market needs.