2. Expected outcomes of the work…
• Total Network Optimization in terms of
Cost, Cash & Capability
that meets our demand requirements over 5 year horizon
without exceeding our capacity constraints or violating
our Operating Strategies
at the lowest investment
• An aligned 5 Year Surfactant Making Network
Masterplan
• Cost, Cash and Capability benchmarking across the
Network
Editor's Notes
What do you get when you combine… ?
– all the components of the Demand Forecast
– with all of the Cost elements to Produce and Ship Surfactants
– with all of the Capability constraints imposed on each asset
– and run this all through an optimization engine called (What’s Best?)
You get a Totally Optimized Surfactant Network! In the form of a Rough Cut Capacity Plan for the next three years…
Surfactant Making Network Masterplan: By running the model for the next five fiscal years – we’ll be able to identify “when” and “where” the Network runs out of capacity
- and then put plans in place to either invest in internal Sulph(on)ation capacity or look externally for a partner that we can work with.
Either way the value of the model and an aligned 5 year Masterplan - is in having line of site to this event and planning in advance vs. “reacting” no pun intended -
