Client: Biofilm is the second largest plastic films company in South America, on-going sales in 19 countries in North, Central America as well as several in Europe. Biofilm has become a major player in the international BOPP(Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene) marketplace.
Challenge: Biofilm approached Strategic Systems International to implement a comprehensive supply chain optimization suite.
Solution: The key processes involved in implementing the supply chain optimization suite were demand forecasting, manufacturing planning, plant scheduling and trim optimization & Slitter scheduling. Trim optimization was done by optimizing order consolidation to minimize trim loss, and schedule slitters to maximize throughput and meet custom delivery dates
Result: SSI leveraged its strong expertise in data science, data integration and supply chain management skills to develop an application that allowed BIOFILM in managing their operations in an optimal way.