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Optimizing Supply Planning across the end-to-end Distribution & Production Network

The customer

AGC, a European leader in flat glass production, operates across a vast network of plants, supplying high-quality glass for industrial and architectural applications. The company is recognized for its expertise in precision manufacturing and efficient process management.

As part of its digital transformation journey, AGC partnered with Bluecrux to implement Anaplan, enhancing cost, service, and stock optimization while ensuring speed and business ownership. By leveraging Anaplan’s flexibility and rapid optimization capabilities, AGC is streamlining operations, improving decision-making, and driving efficiency across its supply chain.

  • Challenges

    • Complex production planning with high costs of non-saturation of production lines & of change-overs
    • Transport costs up to 15% of selling price
    • Customers order mix of products which are not all necessarily produced in 1 location
    • Complex optimization with >100K variables & constraints
    • Scenario planning to navigate a fast-changing and unpredictable world, enabling quick and effective responses

  • Solutions

    • Map complexity of AGC process & network reality
    • Support process maturity, new technologies, and change management
    • Control tower set-up
    • Multi-site demand allocation & production campaigns
    • Simultaneous optimization of Cost/Margins – Service – Stocks/ROCE
    • Speed of optimiser calculation
    • Build internal expertise to independently develop and maintain the solution
    • Data analysis & exception-based improvement capabilities

  • Results

    • 1-2% EBITDA increase
    • 10-15% logistics costs reduction
    • OEE increase due to optimized campaign & sequencing plan
    • What if scenarios to avoid costs & optimize services
    • Internal autonomous Center of Excellence (CoE) to support further developments

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