Tightening competition seems to point to five main things companies in the pulp, paper and flat sheet industries need to get right if they want to cope. Steps towards a predictive operating model are clearly needed if companies in the domain want to stay relevant to their customers. Efficient Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) consolidates the entire supply chain, not only from mill to customer, but all the way from demand prediction to the supply side to profitability and On-Time In Full (OTIF) deliveries.
Reinventing the supply chain can turn a company into a truly customer-centric organisation while shortening lead times, reducing inventory and producing savings to both the supplier and the customer.
Simplifying processes, faster and more accurate decision-making and employees’ new roles in an increasingly automated environment require seamless connection between data and people. Huge amounts of data can be collected from processes and machinery through IoT, the Internet of Things, while humans can also act as sensors to introduce an empathic aspect to operations. The crux of the matter is how to turn the data into actionable knowledge that can be applied to practice instantly.
When this is done right, the result will be an empathic mill and empathic business operations where technology puts the decision-making human in the middle. Routines are handled by technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and humans can turn their attention to intervening in exceptional situations. The end user is the king. For this to succeed, it is crucial that we apply design thinking and place the end user in the focus to ensure a great user experience.
Data also enables totally new ideas, such as virtual twins. Virtual and Augmented Reality can allow, for example, a forest owner to evaluate the results of different what-if forest management scenarios from hundreds of kilometres away from the site. A similar approach can be applied to other industrial use cases.
We present to you, “Top 10 Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Services Companies - 2022.”
