Manufacturing Planning: Maximize Efficiency and Sustainability

Utilize forecasting, scheduling and automation techniques to optimize your manufacturing and supply chain management for more flexibility and sustainability. We enhance production and distribution processes to address the complexity of manufacturing and global disruptions. This enables you to make well-founded and long-term strategic decisions.

Lower costs

5-15% savings in time and resources.

Less damaged goods

Respecting loading and stackability rules.

Improved sustainability & Increased delivery capacity

By using advanced technology for load and route optimization, pallets and trucks can be loaded 5-10% more efficient with 10-20% less empty kilometers.

Enhanced execution visibility

Full visibility internally, to customers and carriers.

Increased satisfaction for carriers and drivers

Manage capacity, handle exceptions.

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The benefits of utilizing ORTEC’s manufacturing planning software

As a manufacturer in sectors like food, beverages, automotive and consumer goods, you face a multitude of challenges in efficiently managing your supply chain. From sourcing raw materials to meeting rising service level demands and delivering to customers, logistics have become more complex.

ORTEC is your strategic choice for manufacturing and supply chain solutions. We provide end-to-end planning cycle support, including predictive and preparatory solutions. Use our advanced analyses solutions for operational efficiency and cost reduction. Data-driven optimization can boost e. g. your cartonization, palletization and loading.

Manufacturing excellence: Boost efficiency with ORTEC’s manufacturing and supply chain solutions

ORTEC offers tailored tools for advanced production supply chain management to streamline shipments efficiently and sustainably, whether they involve intercompany replenishment orders or outbound deliveries to customers.

How ORTEC creates value in manufacturing

Optimize: We provide the best-in-class 3D load planning capabilities, tightly integrated with order management. Optimize loading for product transport between DCs and/or customers, while adhering to intricate restrictions.

Collaborate: Enabling collaboration between sales reps and customers or procurement reps and suppliers with a central, easily accessible platform for shaping optimal orders.

Visualize: Creating visibility into the expected size of an order’s freight prior to execution.

Fostering: Fostering opportunities to generate orders and shipments based on demand, supply and loading requisites, including top-up filling and mega-order splitting.

Cultivating: Cultivating an environment of continuous improvement, leveraging insights from actual operations, including forecasting and capacity planning.

Load Building and Route Scheduling Modules

Our load building and route scheduling modules enhance packing, loading and routing processes for various business scenarios in manufacturing. The planning applications, transport load optimizer and planning board, ensure an optimized user experience and maximize overall efficiency.

SAP Integration for our Manufacturing Supply Chain Solutions

Our data-based manufacturing resource planning software seamlessly integrates with the SAP environment, aligning with the manufacturer’s specific process flow. ORTEC for SAP ERP® and SAP S/4HANA® are modular add-on tailored to meet your unique planning requirements.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in Manufacturing Planning

Our Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is scalable and cost-effective, ensuring swift optimization and delivering first-rate results. As a cloud-native SaaS, backed by Microsoft® Azure, it offers speed, reliability, and security. It seamlessly integrates with third-party business software (e.g., CRM, ERP, TMS, WMS) through industry-standard web interface technology (REST).

Capacity Planning, Forecasting and Transportation Planning: all from a single source with supply chain management software

ORTEC enhances manufacturing supply chain workflows through cutting-edge 3D load optimization capabilities, generating feasible and executable load proposals swiftly. We facilitate simulating the optimal loading scenarios for various modes of transport (truck, container, rail) and shipping options (Parcel, LTL, FTL) at both the order and shipment levels.

Our Software-as-a-Service efficiently scales to handle diverse workloads of orders and shipments, ensuring rapid optimization and delivering high-quality results. Save cost by accurately forecasting capacity demand prior to execution. Increased planning productivity is achieved through swift optimization and automation, minimizing errors.

Enhance alignment by improving visibility and collaboration in transportation planning with your supply chain partners. With modern, data-based resource planning, you can achieve greater efficiency and higher overall satisfaction.

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About ORTEC

Empowering Better Decisions: ORTEC’s 40-Year Journey of Data-Driven Partnership and Impact

For more than 40 years ORTEC has partnered with many of the world’s leading organizations to make better data-driven decisions. Our decision support software and data science expertise enable our customers to improve their business results and make a positive impact on the world. With more than 1,000 employees across 13 countries, we help over 1,200 customers worldwide to make better choices in an ever-changing environment. Discover more at ortec.com.

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Solutions we offer

Packing and Loading

ORTEC’s packing and loading software is setting new benchmarks with its advanced 3D load optimization capabilities. It helps you maximize fill rates while considering all packing and loading strategies and rules in your supply chain.

Supply Chain Design

ORTEC Supply Chain Design is a powerful supply chain optimization solution for strategic and tactical analysis. The software helps you lower costs, enhance service levels, mitigate risks, and evaluate what-if scenarios for continuous improvement.

Vehicle Routing

Your customers expect timely pickups, deliveries, and real-time status updates. How do you fulfill these expectations with limited capacity? How do you prioritize orders for transportation? You need a smart system blending optimized routing with real-time execution and dispatch.

Logistics Optimization for SAP®

ORTEC for SAP S/4HANA is a certified add-on that offers advanced 3D packing and load optimization, and dynamic vehicle route scheduling. Using best-in-class optimization algorithms, ORTEC for SAP S/4HANA supports your daily inbound and outbound logistics planning and execution with decision-ready proposals to optimize your material flow and reduce logistics costs.

Do you have any further questions? Your contact partners will be happy to advise you.

Birgit Zaepernick

Transportation & Logistics
SAP add-ons

Phone: +49 421 960 39 324
Mobile: +49 162 293 8324
Mail: birgit.zaepernick@ortec.com

Neil Cochrane

Energy Downstream and Manufacturing Business Development

Mobile: +44 7921 295262
Mail: neil.cochrane@ortec.com