The combination of Project Management and Teaching is how I got my start in Supply Chain. I had project management experience from my engineering career where I was designing, building, starting up and optimizing specialty chemical plants around the USA. In 2001, I was the Technical Manager for a plant in Charlotte, NC and I …
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Tag Archives: Aspen SCM
In this case study, Profit Point’s client wanted to find a more automated and better way to create and maintain the production schedule across several batch reactors and schedulers. As a result, we engaged with the customer to design a production scheduling tool using Aspen Tech’s Aspen Plant SchedulerTM.
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Recently Mark Rockey posted a blog about the 5 characteristics of Advanced Production Scheduling Tools. Around the same time, I was asked by a client about the differences between SAP (PPDS) and Aspen Plant Scheduler (SCM/MIMI) and I thought this would be a good follow-up to Mark’s blog. Here is what we at Profit Point …
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At Profit Point, our consulting team has over a century of combined experience implementing Aspen Supply Chain Management (MIMI) solutions. Although the concepts for developing a model are similar from plant to plant, there is nothing quite like getting boots on the ground to truly understand the client needs. With that philosophy in mind, a …
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When selecting enabling software for supply chain scheduling and planning, there are typically two competing forces: On one hand, there is a strong push for standardization, typically driven by the IT organization. On the other hand, there is an equally strong need for flexibility and targeted solutions that capture the unique aspects and requirements of …
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Frequently when we work with clients to implement decision support tools for supply chain scheduling and planning, they often have some unique constraint that is essential to model and may be unique to their environment. Some recent examples we have encountered include the following: When producing a batch in a make to order environment, the …
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In this case study, Profit Point engaged with the customer to design a tool using Aspen Tech’s Supply Chain ManagementTM suite. The tool uses the built in optimization engine to find the best solution and is also highly flexible in allowing the user to specify certain specific constraint values that must be adhered to.
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My day started out ordinary: Tea, checking emails, and weekly team meeting. Little did I know that I was in store for some mystery, detours, and redemption. It all started with a few email requests at the beginning of my day.
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Idempotency – a key to better code Recently I found a term that intrigued me. Idempotency. From the web I saw this definition that I liked: In computing, an idempotent operation is one that has no additional effect if it is called more than once with the same input parameters. Much of my computing experience …
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Profit Point is helping several large chemical manufacturers upgrade their many Aspen SCM scheduling models with a goal to achieving long term support-ability in the new Aspen architecture of ver 8.5. An Aspen SCM (MIMI) Upgrade is no small undertaking, but we have been helping people manage, support, and enhance their scheduling models for over 20 …
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Can Pulling the Plug on a Legacy Application Be Pouring Money down the Drain? It’s expensive to develop new business solutions. If an existing application continues to accommodate your business requirements, and the complete software application platform (licensing, service, and support model) presents a continued value proposition, then why change? What language the code is …
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