The document discusses how supply chain optimization can help companies improve growth, sustainability, and agility. It provides examples of how companies like JBS and Papyrus have used supply chain optimization software from AIMMS to increase margins, improve adherence to plans, and transition to more efficient regional supply chain networks. The document promotes AIMMS software as a way to build customized optimization apps, empower planning teams, and simulate scenarios to make better strategic, tactical, and operational decisions.

1. Take Your Business to
the Next Level with
Supply Chain Optimization

2. Next Generation Supply Chains
Efficient, Fast and Agile
Looking to master your company’s cost-to-serve? Searching for a
way to quickly transform your supply chain from a locally-managed
to a regional or global operation? As a business leader, you are on
a constant quest to find new opportunities for improving growth,
sustainability and boosting organizational agility. Create the
conditions to move faster with Supply Chain Optimization.
Supply Chain Optimization: More Scenarios, Smarter
Evaluations, Better Decisions
• Improve your decision-making process by generating
multiple action plans for different scenarios
• React to changing market conditions quickly by studying
their impact on your business
• Evaluate any imaginable planning situation within your
supply chain
• Capture all the relevant aspects of your unique business
situation
• Embed analytics into the daily work of your planning staff
“Thanks to the flexibility of AIMMS, the development of new
optimization modules can be done with the agility comparable to
the dynamism of our company and its market. With the adoption
of AIMMS PRO, JBS will make the best use of a corporate solution
that brings optimization to business users through a central
enterprise App store.”
— João Batista Rocha de Souza
Integrated Planning Manager at JBS
JBS uses AIMMS for daily
cost-to-serve optimization
The Challenge: JBS is a global leader in
meat processing with an annual revenue
of $27 billion and over 50 processing
plants in Brazil alone. Having a master
production schedule that was supported
by multiple spreadsheets, JBS’
operations department faced
considerable challenges in their
planning process. The company was in
need of a solution that would allow them
to explore the best ways to meet
demand and allocate production
capacity at their different plants while
taking specific requirements like halal,
kosher, and the legislation of the
recipient countries into account.
The Solution: JBS decided to redesign
their processes to allow for a systematic
assessment and optimization of
multiple scenarios on a much more
detailed level. The system that they had
developed, enables them to respond
rapidly to changing market prices for
all of their (intermediate) products on a
daily basis. In addition, it allows them to
compare these insights with the latest
update of their demand scenarios,
production capabilities, transport
possibilities, and all associated costs.
The Results:
• A 25% increase to original margin
• 90% improvement on ‘adherence to
plan’
• Increased adaptability and agility in
the planning process
• An optimized product portfolio with
the right inventory levels
• Integrating Cost-to-Serve analysis and
considerations into the S&OP process
• The ability to collaboratively explore
multiple scenarios
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3. Need a technology that will support
you every step of the way?
AIMMS allows you to empower every planner with
Supply Chain Optimization
The AIMMS PRO modeling and optimization platform enables you
to build tailor-made optimization apps and deploy them across
your organization using the web browser. Capture all the relevant
aspects of your planning challenges with powerful modeling
capabilities. Get the best possible solutions to any conceivable
business situation using a robust software engine. Easily visualize
and evaluate your planning outcomes with an interactive user
interface. Manage your operation from a single and centralized
platform, allowing for quick iterations and easy deployment
throughout your organization.
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PROOF OF
CONCEPT
MISSION
CRITICAL
ENTERPRISE APP
IDEA
OPTIMIZATION
APP
“We first investigated the best scenarios for bringing the
Papyrus supply chain to the next level. With the adoption of
AIMMS PRO, Papyrus will rapidly make the transition from
a locally oriented organization to a European Supply Chain
concept.”
— Bob Woodburn
SVP Supply Chain Papyrus group
Papyrus adopts regional
supply chain planning with
AIMMS
The Challenge: Papyrus is the largest
paper merchant in Europe. Seeing that
paper consumption is decreasing by
7% annually, the company needed to
revise its supply chain design to respond
quickly to changing demand. In order to
sustain their hallmark service level and
flexibility and arrive at the right cost
level, they had to design a new and
innovative supply chain concept to drive
goods through their supply chain.
The Solution: Papyrus used AIMMS to
investigate and identify the best
scenarios for improving the Papyrus
supply chain planning process. The
company is now six months into their
supply chain transformation, and is
rolling out a supply chain control tower
application.
The application allows Papyrus to
centralize capabilities such as demand
forecasting, demand planning, safety
stock optimization, replenishment and
purchase order optimization. The control
tower also lays the foundation for several
advanced Supply Chain Optimization
concepts, including multi-echelon
inventory optimization, transport
optimization, S&OP optimization, and
further optimization of the procurement
function.
The Results:
• Initial idea to complete Supply Chain
transformation in six months
• Papyrus foundation for industry
excellence in Supply Chain
• Established Visibility and Control over
the whole supply chain

4. Key benefits of using AIMMS include:
• Quick ROI – earn back the investment in a matter of weeks/months
• Fast Implementation — go from an idea to implementation in 6 months or less
• Flexibility — develop enterprise apps to meet your operational, tactical and strategic needs
• Seamless — integration with your existing ERP and other systems
• Detailed Business Simulation — make every complex aspect of your operation visible
• Rapid Scenario Analysis — compare different scenarios in real time
• Automatic Solution Creation — generate the best action plan to achieve your business objectives
• Enterprise-Wide Adoption — empower your entire staff with supply chain optimization apps
Trust your transactions to your ERP system, but give your planning staff the power to make decisions based
on solid insights and creative scenario exploration.
How the world’s leading brands leverage AIMMS for Supply Chain Optimization
AIMMS has long been the optimization technology of choice for Fortune 500 companies like Shell, Nike,
Johnson and Johnson and ExxonMobil. Today, enterprises of all shapes and sizes can use our technology to
unleash their potential. Our clients have saved or avoided billions of dollars in costs, and reduced carbon
emissions by thousands of metric tons through the use of our technology. AIMMS can be leveraged for a
wide variety of objectives including business process improvement, cost reduction and anticipating changing
market conditions.
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About AIMMS
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the US and Asia. For 25 years, the company has been developing
and selling a unique mathematical optimization platform. AIMMS
customers can create high business impact with optimization
engines and solutions that enable optimal decision making
on complex strategic, tactical, and operational problems.
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