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Optimizing tradeoffs for consumer product challenges
The CPG industry runs on high-volume, make-to-stock operations with complex requirements around expiry management, inventory holding, and service performance. Yet planners often struggle to manage the many tradeoffs and constraints, relying on manual processes, spreadsheets, and time-consuming iterations that fall short of optimal outcomes.
Benefits
We’ve got your industry covered
No matter what type of product you sell, discover the optimization benefits of Maestro to the consumer products industry.
Plan with speed and accuracy
Maestro streamlines planning by applying multiple analytical techniques in one scenario to deliver optimal results quickly and confidently
Maximize business value
Tailor supply chain decisions to your business goals with Maestro, ensuring every choice drives maximum value
Empower confident decision-making
Maestro provides transparent, explainable outputs and interactive dashboards so planners understand and trust every decision
Enable strategic alignment
Collaborate across teams in Maestro to explore scenarios and reach consensus faster, aligning plans with company-wide priorities
Build your own model
Use Maestro’s flexible platform to create custom models with powerful visualisations, scenario planning, and digital twin capabilities
Features
Flexible optimization capabilities, unlimited opportunities
Enable a connected, data-driven approach to S&OP that maximizes profitability, improves long-term agility, and supports smarter investment in future capacity. Explore limitless what-if futures and simulate demand shifts, supply constraints, or growth strategies with aggregate decisions across months or quarters.
Configure business objectives to instantly determine the optimal supply source—balancing cost, capacity, and existing commitments. Streamline make-versus-buy decisions and weigh tradeoffs across internal and supplier capacities, minimum contract requirements, sustainability goals, and cost factors, including transportation, international duties, and procurement expenses.
Configure tradeoffs between changeovers, utilization, and inventory, considering multi-level constraints, resource options, run lengths, and more, to align production with business objectives. Maximize the value of your materials and resources and build a high-quality, time-bucketed plan that’s ready for scheduling. Adapt plans rapidly in response to demand shifts or supply constraints.
Unlock significant cost savings by minimizing transportation spend, selecting the most efficient shipping modes, and optimizing inventory placement across the network. Balance safety stock and storage constraints while ensuring demand fulfilment and necessary adjustments during peak seasons.
Enable a connected, data-driven approach to S&OP that maximizes profitability, improves long-term agility, and supports smarter investment in future capacity. Explore limitless what-if futures and simulate demand shifts, supply constraints, or growth strategies with aggregate decisions across months or quarters.
Configure business objectives to instantly determine the optimal supply source—balancing cost, capacity, and existing commitments. Streamline make-versus-buy decisions and weigh tradeoffs across internal and supplier capacities, minimum contract requirements, sustainability goals, and cost factors, including transportation, international duties, and procurement expenses.
Configure tradeoffs between changeovers, utilization, and inventory, considering multi-level constraints, resource options, run lengths, and more, to align production with business objectives. Maximize the value of your materials and resources and build a high-quality, time-bucketed plan that’s ready for scheduling. Adapt plans rapidly in response to demand shifts or supply constraints.
Unlock significant cost savings by minimizing transportation spend, selecting the most efficient shipping modes, and optimizing inventory placement across the network. Balance safety stock and storage constraints while ensuring demand fulfilment and necessary adjustments during peak seasons.
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