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Through our experience gained from multiple projects, we embarked on a journey of discovery. We realized that by standardizing commonly used analyses, optimizations, and visualizations, we could accelerate project delivery without compromising quality. This breakthrough led us to dive deeper and identify specific tools tailored to each solution area, further enhancing the return on investment (RoI) for our clients.

With this newfound knowledge, we set out to develop our tech offerings. Our approach was driven by the desire to provide our clients with tools that not only meet their needs but also surpass their expectations. These tools were crafted with precision and attention to detail, honed by the practical experience and insights gained from our project team.

We understand that no two projects are identical, and our tools can be fine-tuned to align perfectly with the unique requirements of your business. Our project team will understand your business better and work with the back-end team to customise the tool for your requirement.

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In-house offerings for internal and client use


Production Optimiser

Many manufacturing companies encounter a range of challenges that hinder their productivity and customer satisfaction. These challenges range from production issues like high volume of backlog orders awaiting production, excessive work-in-progress (WIP) inventory buildup before bottleneck processes, higher manufacturing costs resulting from material wastage and capacity to customer issues like longer delivery lead times compared to industry peers, dissatisfied customers due to delayed deliveries, a lack of visibility into order status and current demand and ultimately leading to inventory issues like excess inventory of non-moving materials and stock out of moving materials.

There are several off the shelf products for production planning in the market. However, they have limitations while configuring the tool for client’s specific constraints. The reason for this gap is most of the products are developed for standard controlled environment without the specific nuances. A production planning tool developed for one industry doesn’t really fit another. Even within the industry production set up between two companies are often different and hence the final customisation to suit the ground reality makes a big difference in the effectiveness of the tool.

At Qwixpert, we specialize in addressing these challenges and enhancing production planning to optimize between capacity utilisation, inventory, and service levels. Through our extensive experience working with companies employing various manufacturing processes such as discrete, batch, continuous, batch + continuous, or a combination of these, we have developed an in-house Production Optimizer. This solution effectively tackles the aforementioned issues, regardless of the problem’s complexity, while considering constraints and specific business requirements.

Objectives:

  • Optimizing the sequencing of orders based on priority and other business constraints:
    • Right sequencing at processes before bottleneck process so the bottleneck process is not waiting for orders.
    • To maximise the utilization of the bottleneck process to by optimising the number of changeovers (i.e., reducing idling)
  • Reduction of delivery lead-time and Improved adherence to service level commitments.
  • Improved visibility of order status from the structured planning to take a trade-off decision based on type of order to cancel, prepone, post pone based on changing customer demand or new orders. Improved communication with customer.

Logical Flow of the Production Optimiser

Our tool revolutionizes optimization approaches by providing an array of customizable features that surpass traditional methods:

  • Problem Structuring: Our production optimization tool begins with meticulously identifying crucial parameters that determine the constraints of your business. We then expertly formulate and structure the problem, blending customization with our adaptable templates to achieve optimal results.
  • Our production optimization approach provides the flexibility to optimize based on specific objectives: maximizing utilization, maximizing margin, or minimizing costs, all centred around identifying and addressing the bottleneck. Furthermore, our tool effectively aligns processes preceding the bottleneck to minimize downtime, ensuring uninterrupted productivity and optimal resource allocation.
  • Let us consider a situation where a manufacturing company has a complex setup: a bottleneck process comprising of 5 machines, with multiple changeover parameters based on product characteristics and material supplied from different preceding processes. Additionally, the preceding process follow a non-linear sequence to reach bottleneck and each process may have multiple number of machines. For a given planning period the company needs the production sequence for 100 orders across the 5 machines at the bottleneck, this can translate to solving for over 1 million decision variables at a time, adhering to the constraints dictated by the company’s unique business requirements. Rest assured, our capabilities extend beyond this level of complexity, enabling us to tackle even more intricate scenarios.

With system-based planning gain the flexibility to adapt to changes in customer demand, supply chain disruptions, or other unforeseen events and better commitment & visibility to customer on supply on material for higher customer satisfaction.

The tool is built to be:

  • Scalable: Ability to handle any type of process and number of processes with single or multiple machines and any number of orders
  • Customisable: Ability to include multiple changeover parameters, priority, production constraints as per business requirement
  • Modular: Use of the sequence to arrive at schedule by process and machine with lower idle time of the machine or waiting time of the order at bottleneck process and previous processes


Global Network Design Tool

At Qwixpert, we understand the challenges that businesses face in optimising the supply chain network in this ever-evolving landscape. With extensive experience across network optimization projects, we’ve encountered the limitations of off-the-shelf tools.

The rigid nature of these tools often falls short of providing a comprehensive solution that encompasses multiple modes of transportation, the delicate balance between inventory and service levels, and other critical factors. As a result, we frequently had to customize and adapt the solutions to ensure practical implementation.

To overcome these hurdles and provide our clients with a superior experience, our team of consultants and tech-team developed a cutting-edge Network Design tool. With the support of this highly customisable tool, the project team is equipped to deliver projects more efficiently.

Objective:

  • Identify the most optimal locations for your nodes, ensuring you’re strategically positioned to serve your customers efficiently
  • Optimise the flow of goods to balance stock levels, reduce carrying costs, and improve order fulfilment rates over a multi-echelon and multi-SKU network
  • Design an efficient inventory and warehouse strategy tailored to your unique business needs

Logical Flow of the Global Network Design Tool

Our tool goes beyond traditional optimization approaches by offering the following customisations:

  • Multi-modal transportation: With favourable policies for rail freights, we believe there is scope for evaluating the cost and service level advantages of railways, roadways, and even waterways. By including typical factors in rail network like demurrage charges, the model can select the most optimal mode means of moving material across nodes

 

  • Seasonality component: Through an iterative model, the tool ensures that your business reaps the benefit of scale by selecting larger trucks and more direct and long-haul deliveries. During lean seasons, the strategy focuses on improving truck utilisation through the usage of consolidation hubs and smaller trucks

 

  • Configuring Strategic Priorities: We’ve encountered instances where strategic goals or macroeconomic factors may make nodes or lanes critical, even if they don’t align with optimal solutions. Our model takes into account constraints about node and lane selection to generate the most feasible solution.

 

  • Scenario Analysis: The tool empowers you to simulate and analyze various scenarios, enabling you to assess the impact of potential changes before implementation. This functionality helps you make data-driven decisions, mitigating risks and maximizing the benefits of your optimization strategies.


Route Planning Tool

Retail and Consumer Goods companies allocate a significant portion of their revenue, between 0.75% to 1.75%, towards secondary transportation. Unfortunately, many businesses overlook the inefficiencies within this crucial area. Factors like customer-specific delivery windows, restrictions on truck sizes, and city-entry limitations pose operational challenges, leading to the perception that optimizing secondary transportation is difficult or impossible. However, we beg to differ. Through numerous engagements, we have successfully achieved tangible results.

We understand the paramount importance of efficient and cost-effective route planning in secondary transportation and hence have developed out own route planning tool. Our tech solution addresses the need for high utilization, planning within delivery windows, and meeting service level requirements. With the ever-changing order volumes and frequencies, our state-of-the-art Route Planning Tool streamlines operations and elevates the delivery experience and overall efficiency of your system.

Objective:

  • Route Planning to minimise cost between single supply node and multiple delivery nodes that can be catered through milk-run dedicated trucks, one-way FTL trucks, and parcel service
  • Optimizing the sequencing of deliveries to reduce overall mileage based on factors such as proximity, time constraints, service level, and fleet size
  • Minimizing empty or underutilized vehicles based on vehicle capacities, load requirements, and delivery volumes to reduce fuel consumption and operational costs
  • Adhering to delivery windows and service level commitments to generate routes that ensure on-time deliveries, improving customer satisfaction and loyalty

Logical Flow of the Route Planning Tool

Our experience across multiple secondary optimisation projects led us to build the following customisation:

  • Mode of Delivery: Taking into account the cost of servicing each customer, our tool evaluates the feasibility of various delivery modes. It determines whether dedicated truck milk run operations are viable, utilizes FTL (Full Truck Load) trucks when one-way trips are available, or employs PTL (Partial Truck Load) trucks for low-volume shipments.

 

  • Delivery Window: Customers engaged in activities such as loading for tertiary dispatch or order consolidation often have specific time windows in which they prefer to receive materials. Our tool optimizes routes to ensure customers are serviced only within their designated delivery windows, enhancing operational efficiency

 

  • Truck Size Constraint: In densely populated areas with restrictions on truck size, whether imposed by government regulations or road conditions, our tool accommodates truck size constraints. It ensures that the appropriate truck size is dispatched to locations where larger vehicles are not feasible or practical, enabling smoother deliveries.

 

  • Handling Time: Considering that trucks spend significant time loading and unloading, the duration of which varies from customer to customer based on labour availability, our tool allows for the specification of handling times. This customization ensures accurate planning and realistic route optimization, accounting for varying labour conditions.

 

  • Real-Time Monitoring and Adaptability: Unforeseen circumstances can impact route plans. Our tool enables real-time monitoring and adaptability, empowering you to make on-the-fly adjustments. With visibility into current routes, you can quickly respond to changing customer demands or unforeseen events, ensuring operational flexibility and responsiveness.


Demand Forecasting Tool

At Qwixpert, we understand the critical role that demand forecasting plays in enabling companies to make informed decisions about inventory management, resource allocation, and marketing strategies. Often, we find clients have off the shelf forecasting tool and it selects a different curve every time and forecasts. The demand planner does not have any reason as why a curve is selected and what parameters are fixed within the curve. Can the demand planner modify the parameters based on current market scenarios?

Yes, we’ve developed an advanced in-house Demand Forecasting Tool, incorporating state-of-the-art techniques and intelligent algorithms to deliver accurate predictions tailored to your needs. We went to step forward and built in transparency that can inform your demand planner about the logic or curve selection and let them modify it to reflect business context.

Objective:

  • Provide accurate demand predictions through the identification of best-fit model
  • Tune the parameters for forecasting based on business contests to ensure a more reliable forecast

Logical Flow of the Demand Forecasting Tool

Our expertise in demand forecasting has enabled us to build in unique functionalities to the model:

  • Data Pre-processing and Treatment: Our Demand Forecasting Tool begins with comprehensive data pre-processing. It handles outliers and missing data, ensuring the input data is clean and reliable. By applying robust techniques to address data irregularities, we ensure that the forecasting models are built on accurate, high-quality data, leading to more reliable predictions.

 

  • Flexible Forecasting Models: Our tool provides a range of forecasting models catering to diverse business needs. It offers simple models such as exponential smoothing and moving averages for quick and straightforward forecasting. Additionally, it incorporates advanced models like ARIMA (AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average), Holt-Winters, and linear regression, which consider trends and seasonality patterns in your data. This versatility lets you choose the model that best suits your forecasting requirements.

 

  • Error Comparison and Model Selection: Once the predictions are generated, our Demand Forecasting Tool compares the performance of different models. It calculates and displays the error metrics for each model, such as mean absolute error (MAE), mean squared error (MSE), or root mean squared error (RMSE). This transparent comparison allows you to evaluate the performance of different models and select the one with the lowest error, ensuring you make data-driven decisions based on the most accurate predictions.

 

  • Parameter Fine-tuning: Our tool not only displays the model errors but also allows you to fine-tune the parameter values to best reflect the business context and plans for the future to improve the accuracy of the forecast. By adjusting the parameters and observing the impact on the error metrics, you can refine the forecasts and achieve greater precision in predicting future demand patterns.

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