Stock cutting optimisation
Product choice
Blending optimisation
Scenario analysis
Product waste minimisation
Demand forecasting
Marginal cost-benefit analysis
We work with you to uncover the key cost drivers and variables that are critical to your production planning. By understanding your problems in detail we can then build powerful production planning software that supports your critical decisions. You can then increase revenue and savings, while increasing customer satisfaction.
“Being able to plan and maximize returns within our dynamic marketplace has always been challenging, so when we talked with Scopta about developing a new optimisation model with more scenario modelling capability we could see the potential of planning with confidence that every variable had been optimised to minimise cost and maximise revenue within our market plan.
The team at Scopta were quick to understand the variables within our planning process and have developed a platform that enables us to react to the moving market conditions with confidence.”
Craig Spence
Marketing Accounting & Administration Manager, Alliance Group
Alliance is one of the largest lamb and mutton producers in the world, exporting to 65 countries and representing over 15% of the world’s cross-border mutton trade. Alliance needed an optimised approach to manage their 7 million lambs and sheep and make smarter sales and production planning decisions quickly and easily to produce upwards of 1200 products.
Scopta worked closely with Alliance’s domain experts in New Zealand to create a streamlined, fit-for-purpose mathematical solution. Once a proven formulation had been developed, a cloud-based strategic tool was rapidly built on top of the Scopta Workbench platform. This allowed far greater control and visibility across Alliance’s meat sales and production planning activities. Scopta’s capacity to create a fully customised tool meant that Alliance could adapt the smallest details to their needs and identify all the relevant variables needed to make smarter sales and production planning decisions quickly and easily.
Alliance were thrilled with the results. They were able to significantly reduce planning efforts while enjoying access to their data anywhere and anytime. They increased their revenue by finding the optimal product mix to satisfy customer and order demand, and they now have greater control over the volatile international marketplace.
This product has not been adapted to be species agnostic to deliver benefits to other industries.