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    2022年3月9日

    LOGISはウクライナの人々を支持し、またウクライナの人々とその自由に対する違法で恐ろしい攻撃の即時停止を求める世界中の政府、企業、個人を支持致します。現状を鑑み、LOGISはロシアでのビジネスを停止致します。弊社のロシア従業員の長年にわたるLOGISへの貢献に感謝しております。

    LOGISについて

    LOGIS社は、ビジネス サービスのプロバイダーであり、また高度プランニング&スケジューリングシステム(APS: Advanced Planning and Scheduling)とセールス&オペレーションズ プランニング(S&OP: Sales & Operations Planning)ソフトウェアの開発企業です。LOGIS社のサービスとソフトウェアにより、お客様は操業効率と顧客納期達成率の明らかな向上を達成することができます。LOGIS社は、過去25年間に鉄鋼・非鉄金属業や組立製造業(機械産業、自動車産業など)のお客様に、世界中で約100件以上のプランニング システムを導入してきました。お客様は比較的小規模な製造企業から、要求の厳しいプランニング環境が必要な非常に複雑で大規模な製造企業にまで及んでいます。

    LOGISプロダクション プランナーの活用によりJFEスチール様が納期達成率と操業効率の向上を達成

    JFEスチール(www.jfe-steel.co.jp)様は、倉敷地区における形鋼生産の生産負荷検証のために新たなプランニングシステムを導入しました。新しいシステムの導入目的は、納期達成率と供給の信頼性をさらに向上させると同時に、オーダー充足プロセスの効率を向上させることです。

    東京、日本、2022年2月23日

    JFEスチール様は、迅速かつ信頼性のある供給が可能なサプライヤーとしての使命を果たすべく、西日本製鉄所倉敷地区の形鋼生産におけるオーダー充当プロセスの効率を向上させるために、新しい高度プランニングシステム(APS)を展開することを決定しました。

    JFEスチール様は2021年3月に、倉敷地区における形鋼生産の生産負荷検証のために新たなプランニングシステムを通常の稼働に展開しました。新しく導入されたシステムには、精整プロセスと置場能力の負荷を予測する機能もあり、圧延計画に変更が発生するとすぐに荷揃計画が再作成されます。

    JFE スチール様は、新しいプランニングシステムを導入したことにより、荷揃予測の信頼性を向上させることで納期管理の精度を向上させ、また生産プランニングのいくつかの作業において、人手で同じ作業を実施した場合に比べて、作業時間を最大90%削減し、作業の効率性を大幅に向上させることで操業効率の向上を達成しました。さらに、新しいプランニングシステムは、構内物流と配船の操業効率向上にも寄与しています。

    LOGISプロダクション プランナーは、新しいプランニングシステムのベースとなるもので、ソフトウェアツールに高いカスタマイズ性が求められる、要求の厳しい計画環境において使用することを主な目的としてLOGIS社(www.logis-japan.jp)が開発したソフトウェアです。鉄鋼・非鉄金属企業では、要求の厳しい計画環境が必要とされています。JFEスチール様は、このソフトウェアの高度な機能を使って独自の機能を開発し、それを新しいプランニングシステムに搭載し、JFE様のプライベートクラウド上にこのシステムを展開しました。これにより、開発期間を最短に抑えることも可能となりました。

    またJFEシステムズ様も、操業条件の最適化を目指して、高度プランニング技術を用いた生産性向上への取り組みを継続し、このシステムの他地区への展開も推進していきたいとしております。

    プランニングシステム導入プロジェクトは2020年の通年を通して行われました。JFEスチール様への提供は、JFEシステムズ様とLOGISとの協力の元で実行されました。導入の当初計画では、プロジェクトは、毎月倉敷地区にてJFE様とLOGISのエキスパートが数日間集まって共同作業を行うことを予定していました。しかしながら、2020年春の新型コロナウィルスの蔓延後、このアプローチ方法は見直しを余儀なくされ、全ての共同作業は完全にインターネット経由によるリモートで行われ、多くのチームメンバーが在宅勤務となりました。このような状況にもかかわらず、スケジュールも概ね当初の予定通りに、予定された全ての機能が達成されて、プロジェクトは成功裏に完了しました。導入チームは、困難な条件下でも高いプロ意識と非常に高い協業の可能性を見せました。

    LOGISの取締役副社長トーマス ボイテクは、「弊社のソフトウェア技術とエキスパートサービスが再びJFEスチール社において成功裏に活用されたことを嬉しく思っています。弊社は、JFEスチール様とその情報システムを担うJFEシステムズ様両社の経験豊富なエキスパートの方々とご一緒することができました。同社の方々はサプライヤーに対して高い要求をお持ちですが、共にプロジェクトに携われることは有意義なことだと思っています。」と述べています。

    JFEスチール株式会社について

    「JFEスチールは高炉を所有し、鉄鉱石を原料に最終製品の生産までを一貫して行う鉄鋼メーカー(高炉メーカー)です。

    「常に世界最高の技術をもって社会に貢献します」という企業理念のもと、お客様や社会のニーズに応える鉄鋼製品をグローバルに提供しています。

    また、最先端の環境調和型製鉄プロセスの構築や、高機能鋼材の開発を通じて、製造工程はもとより製品においても環境負荷の低減に貢献しています。」

    LOGISについて

    LOGIS社は、ビジネス サービスのプロバイダーであり、また高度プランニング&スケジューリングシステム(APS: Advanced Planning and Scheduling)とセールス&オペレーションズ プランニング(S&OP: Sales & Operations Planning)ソフトウェアの開発企業です。LOGIS社のサービスとソフトウェアにより、お客様は操業効率と顧客納期達成率の明らかな向上を達成することができます。LOGIS社は、過去25年間に鉄鋼・非鉄金属業や組立製造業(機械産業、自動車産業など)のお客様に、世界中で約100件以上のプランニング システムを導入してきました。お客様は比較的小規模な製造企業から、要求の厳しいプランニング環境が必要な非常に複雑で大規模な製造企業にまで及んでいます。

    ティムケン スチール社がLOGIS Master Plannerにより S&OPプランニング プロセスの効率化を実現

    高品質特殊鋼と工業用部材、またサプライチェーンのソリューションにおけるリーダー的企業であるティムケン スチール社(www.timkensteel.com)は、S&OPプランニング システム改革による恩恵を享受しています。このシステムは、LOGIS社(www.logis-japan.jp)のLOGIS Master Planner をベースとして構築されました。

    2021年11月11日

    ティムケン スチール社は、2019年にプランニング システムの大規模改革の最終段階であるセールス&オペレーションズ プランニング(S&OP)の革新的な再設計を行いました。この新しいS&OPプランニング プロセスは、LOGIS社の製品であるLOGIS Master Plannerによって実現されています。これは、先に展開したLOGIS社の中・短期領域を扱う最先端プランニング ツール群を使用した、最新の生産プランニング・スケジューリング システム上に構築されています。

    ティムケン スチール社のサプライチェーン副社長Marcin Binczyk氏 は、以下のように述べています。「LOGIS Master Plannerの本番稼働後の経験から、変化の多いこの時代にこのツールが提供してくれる利点がはっきりと目に見えてきており、非常に有益なものであると言えます。ビジネスの観点から言いますと、LOGIS Master Plannerは、市場における見通しの変化に対して、先を見越して対応する能力を強化してくれるものです。需要予測を最も効率的に満たす方法を迅速に見つけ出すことができるため、必要な対策を適時に講じることができるようになりました。つまり、市場の状況の変化をこれまでにない程うまく利用できるようになりました。」

    ティムケン スチール社のSIOP(販売、在庫、操業計画)と在庫&マスター プランニングのシニア マネージャーであるStacy Adamski氏は、以下のように述べています。「LOGIS Master Plannerを使うことで、これから起きることに対して効率的に対応することが可能になっています。LOGIS Master Plannerにより、予測と弊社の生産制約、また需要製品を生産する可能な方法とを突き合わせています。製品能力をどのように利用すれば、弊社の制約下で最善の結果を出すことができるのかを、評価することができます。このツールは使い勝手が良く、処理が速いため、複数の代替ソリューションに焦点を当てて、それらを比較することもできるようになりました。計画処理が高速なため、予測の修正や、実オーダーと予測との誤差に対する迅速で的確な対応も可能となりました。」

    Adamski氏はまた、以下のように続けています。「例えば、弊社の設備稼働に関する今年最大の決定は、オハイオ州カントンの溶解設備を休止させることでした。このような決定は、今後どうなるのかが分からないままで決められることではありません。質の高い分析による裏付けがなければ、これは非常にリスクの高いことです。弊社の分析により、休止によってどうなるのか、またどのような利益が発生するのかを、私たちは非常によく分かっていました。そして、まさに期待通りの結果になりました。このようにして、効率性を求めつつ、過度のリスクにさらされることなく、新しいシステムを使って生産レイアウトの状況を変えることができることを証明しました。

    Marcin Binczyk氏は最後に以下のように結んでいます。「S&OPプロセスをサポートする新しいシステムによる成功は、弊社が数年前に稼働を開始した生産プランニング・スケジューリングをサポートするシステムによる同様の成功に続くものです。過去数年間の人員削減にもかかわらず、プランニング チームはLOGIS社のプランニング システムを使って、過去には手の届かなかったような素晴らしい結果を達成し続けています。」

    LOGIS社の会長兼CEOのDalibor Konvicka氏は、以下のように述べています。「ティムケン スチール社は、弊社にとって言わば心のよりどころとなるお客様です。同社は、1990年代初めに高度プランニングを導入した、まさに最初の鉄鋼企業であり、またAPS界のパイオニアであるi2テクノロジーズ社の最初の顧客でした。i2社は、ティムケンスチール社との最初のプロジェクトの中で、今や伝説ともなっているi2ファクトリー プランナーを開発しました。そしてその20年後に、弊社がティムケンスチール社と新世代プランニング プロジェクトを開始した時、i2社との初期プロジェクトに携わった方々と共に取り組めたことは幸運なことでした。「私たちを導いて欲しい。御社を信頼していますよ。」とティムケン スチール社から言われたことは、非常に驚くべき体験であり、そしてそれは重要な約束事となりました。弊社は、弊社が持つ全てを注ぎました。ティムケン スチール社の方々と共に達成してきたことを、嬉しく、そしてまた誇らしく思っています。」

    ティムケン スチール社について

    ティムケン スチール社(NYSE: TMST)は、オハイオ州カントンで高性能の炭素合金鋼製品や、リサイクル金属屑を利用した合金鋼製品を製造し、モバイル業やエネルギー産業などの様々な業界と市場での高い要求に応えて、供給をしています。合金棒鋼(直径16インチまで)や、シームレス メカニカル鋼管、また工業用部材における米国トップの生産者です。100年以上にわたり高品質の鉄鋼製品の製造を続けており、実証されているティムケン スチールの専門技術は、需要家の製品性能に寄与しています。従業員は約1,900人、2020年の売上高は8億3,100万ドル(約950億円)です。詳細はホームページ www.timkensteel.com をご覧下さい。

    LOGIS社について

    LOGIS社は、ビジネス サービスのプロバイダーであり、また高度プランニング&スケジューリングシステム(APS: Advanced Planning System)とセールス&オペレーションズ プランニング(S&OP: Sales & Operations Planning)ソフトウェアの開発企業です。LOGIS社のサービスとソフトウェアにより、お客様は操業効率と顧客納期達成率の明らかな向上を達成することができます。LOGIS社は、過去25年間に鉄鋼・非鉄金属業や組立製造業(機械産業、自動車産業など)のお客様に、世界中で約100件以上のプランニング システムを導入してきました。お客様は比較的小規模な製造企業から、要求の厳しいプランニング環境が必要な非常に複雑で大規模な製造企業にまで及んでいます。

    HERN社、プランニングの効率性向上

    建設機械向け溶接物の生産を行なう機械工業会社のHERN社は年初から、生産プランニングの通常業務にLOGISのAPSソリューションを導入したことによる恩恵を享受しています。この導入は、HERN社の業務効率性及び顧客サービスの質の向上をサポートするものです。

    スロバキア、ナメストヴォ 2019年8月12日

    2018年にHERN社の経営陣は、プランニングプロセスの改革への投資を決定しました。協力パートナーとして、高い専門性と、この分野における多数の経験のあるサプライヤーであるLOGISが選ばれました。

    HERN社の業務執行取締役兼財務部長のRoman Vida氏は、プロジェクトのサプライヤーの選択とプロジェクトの進行について以下のように述べています。「LOGISとのビジネス討議の中で、専門的なアプローチと高レベルの専門知識、経験、また協力条件に関する建設的な交渉に基づいて弊社はLOGISを選ぶことを決めました。プロジェクトは合意したスケジュールに基づいて実行され、大きな問題や予期せぬ事態の発生もなく概ねスムーズに進行しました。私の経験では、IT分野ではこのように進行するプロジェクトは多くはありません。しかしながらこのプロジェクトでは、スケジュール通りに進行しただけでなく、予算内で実行することができました。」

    同氏はさらに以下のように述べました。「各KPIについてプロジェクトの結果による効果を評価するには時期尚早と言えます。作成され継続的に更新される計画に一貫して沿い、また関係する全ての部署において導入されたプロセスの変更を考慮した業務を遂行した上で評価することができます。しかしながら弊社では既に、管理の効率性向上がはっきりと見えており、多くの通常業務が自動化され、非常に詳細なレベルでの計画作成が可能になっています。」

    また、組立製造業担当の取締役営業部長のProkop Havlik氏は以下のように語っています。「LOGISとHERNの協力関係は今後も発展し続けます。私たちは、変化する市場状況と新たな優先事項に基づくプロセスとプランニングモデルのさらなる最適化に焦点を当てたコンサルティングサービスの提供に合意しました。」

    HERN社について

    HERN社は、様々な業界の先導的な企業向けコンポーネントの設計、生産、販売を主に行う伝統的な機械工業会社です。主要事業は、農業、建設機械業、ハンドリング装置、機械生産及びオートメーション向けの溶接部品、機械加工部品、表面処理品の組立部品の生産です。従業員数は現在約670人です。

    LOGISについて

    LOGISは、顧客の企業の管理の質と競争力の向上に焦点を当てた専門的なサービスと情報技術のサプライヤーです。このサービス提供は、顧客の企業における管理の効率性向上とビジネスにおける成功の促進を目的としたプロジェクトという形で実現されます。提供するソリューションにおいてLOGISは、サプライチェーンマネージメント(SCM)と高度プランニング・スケジューリング(APS)の分野からの、効率性の高い情報技術を含め、高度管理・プランニングメソッドおよびプロシージャ(ベストプラクティス)を適用します。

    Alca plast intends to increase its supplier reliability despite the increase in production volume

    High due date performance is a key condition of long-term strengthening of market position for Alca plast, the biggest producer of sanitary equipment in Central and Eastern Europe. In the course of 2016, the company’s management therefore decided on an investment in an advanced planning project that will create the preconditions for Alca plast to gain the ability to maintain high customer service standard in the long run.

    Breclav, Czech Republic, Feb 7, 2017

    The Alca plast company has been growing continuously since its formation in 1998 and it is becoming an important player globally in its field. The total sales have approached CZK 1,5 billion in the last year. The owners of the company are convinced that the success is above all due to the consistent adherence to the company’s motto: “To always be a reliable supplier for all our customers”.

    The ever increasing number of customers increases the pressure on the production itself, which has to ensure a timely delivery of the customers’ orders. That requires a quality and accurate management of the order fulfilment process. Therefore the Alca plast company has decided on an investment into strengthening this area by the implementation of an advanced production planning system (APS). As its implementation partner it has chosen the LOGIS company, a supplier with many years of experience with these projects that has proven its competence in the course of the tender as well as the consecutive elaboration of the pre-implementation study.

    The co-owner, Chief Executive and CEO of the Alca plast company, Ing. František Fabičovič, states: “We plan to keep growing. We care immensely about each of our customers and we want to do everything for the satisfaction of their demands. To achieve this, we have to be able to manage better how the individual orders are carried out. I believe that the implementation of the APS project in cooperation with the LOGIS company will help us with this effort significantly.”

    Ing. Tomáš Vojtík, Chief Executive and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the LOGIS company, adds: “We are glad that Alca plast chose us as their implementation partner. Although we have decades of successful projects in the APS area behind us already, it is apparent that in the case of Alca plast we will have to face new challenges again. I believe, however, that with our joint project we will contribute to the fulfilment of goals that the Alca plast has set for themselves.”

    About Alca plast

    Alcaplast company was founded in 1998 as a family Czech company. It currently has six subsidiaries abroad and exports to more than 40 countries around the world. Alcaplast is the largest manufacturer of sanitary ware in Central and Eastern Europe, producing more than 580 products – valves, traps, modules, grids, drains, toilet seats and other products.

    Alcaplast products find their application in both new buildings and renovations. Technical experts from Alcaplast give emphasis on reliability and reliability of all products. Before Alcaplast products leave the factory in Breclav they are all tested for their quality.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    ARMATURY グループ、プランニング プロセスの変革と顧客サービスの改善に投資

    ARMATURYグループは、企業の競争力向上を目的として、高度生産プランニング システム(APS)を導入します。LOGISは、当プロジェクトのパートナーかつ導入ベンダーであり、エキスパート サービスと高度プランニング技術を提供します。

    チェコ共和国、ドルニー ベネソフ 2016年10月13日

    ARMATURYグループは、工業用電機子(発電機の回転子)の主要な製造サプライヤーです。同社の広範な製品ラインには、この他にボールバルブ、冶金用金具、バタフライバルブ、タービン用チェックバルブ、従来の電力産業および原子力産業用の電機子にも及んでいます。同社の生産管理に使用されていた従来のツールでは、増え続ける顧客からの要求への対応が困難で、需要の変化と市場の現状に、柔軟に応えることができませんでした。納期短縮と納期遵守の重視に対する要求増加のために、ARMATURYグループは、これらの点に注力する必要がでました。高度プランニングの先駆的な提供者であるLOGISは、このプロジェクトにおける協力パートナーとして選ばれました。

    ARMATURYグループの財務担当役員であるMartin Kusy氏は次のように述べています。「現在、石油・ガス生産が減少していることもあり、私たちは納期短縮、高い納期遵守率に対する増大するプレッシャーや、製造コスト削減におけるプレッシャーのために、顧客の要求を満たすために、さらに柔軟な対応が必要になってきています。現状の生産管理とプランニングの仕組みでは、顧客サービスとオペレーションの効率性レベルを向上させることができないと判断し、個別受注生産(MTO)や弊社の製造領域における豊富なプロジェクト経験のあるLOGISをパートナーとすることを決めました。」また、取締役会長のJiri Holecek氏は、次のように追加しました。「建屋の建設と補修に必要な投資をし、最新の製造技術を購入した後に、会社の生産プロセスを最適に計画・管理し、新たな投資を効率的に行うための管理システムにも投資することを決めました。プロジェクトの目標は、市場における変化や顧客要求の変化に、非常に細かいレベルで適時に応えることができるようになることと、またオーダーの納期達成を阻害する可能性のあるものを適時に見つけ出すことができるようにすることです。」

    LOGISの専務取締役Tomas Vojtik氏は、次のように述べています。「LOGISは、チェコ共和国、および他の様々な国で導入を行ってきた何十ものプロジェクトを通して得た、個別生産・小ロットMTOの環境における生産プランニングの豊富な経験を応用しています。高度プランニング システムの導入は、製造会社に導入される最も要求の厳しいプロジェクトの一つとなりますが、この挑戦を成功に導き、また期待される結果を達成するために、電機子生産領域における高度プランニングの導入から得た全ての知識と経験を活用することを約束します。」

    ARMATURYグループについて

    同社は、チェコおよびスロバキアで既に運営されていた3社の合併によって2000年に設立され、オパヴァとフルチーン地域でのバルブ生産の経験と伝統に基礎を置いています。ARMATURYグループは、様々な産業分野(従来の電力産業および原子力産業用、化学薬品、石油化学製品、石油・ガス掘削、水の供給)向けの広範な製品ラインナップの設計、エンジニアリング、建設、生産、組立てに焦点を当てた産業用金具の主要なチェコの生産会社です。ARMATURYグループは、ヨーロッパだけでなくアジア、アメリカ、アフリカにおいても販売活動を行っているグローバルプレーヤーです。

    LOGISについて

    LOGISは、企業におけるマネージメントの質の改善と競争力に焦点を当てた、専門的サービスと情報技術を提供するサプライヤーです。提供製品は、顧客企業におけるマネージメントの効率性向上と、ビジネスにおける成功の展開を目的としたプロジェクトの形で実現されます。LOGISのソリューションは、サプライチェーンマネージメント(SCM)、および高度プランニング・スケジューリング(APS)の分野における、高効率なIT技術と、高度なマネージメントおよびプランニング手法や手順(手段)を適用しています。

    TVDにおけるプランニングプロセスとKPIの改善

    TVD社は、チェコ共和国における最大級の薄板キャビネット製造会社であり、またヨーロッパ全土のエネルギー会社、電話会社、電気工学産業における、これらの製品のキー サプライヤーです。同社は、高度生産プランニング システム(APS)の導入に成功し、2015年前半から、競争力強化による利益を享受しています。

    チェコ共和国 スラヴィツィーン 2015年8月14日

    TVD社は、その製品の大部分を受注生産による、通常は小規模な生産ロットで生産しています。納期短縮に対する市場圧力の増大のため、全オーダーの約80%を2週間以内で納入しなければなりません。これまで同社は、操業管理におけるボリューム増加と、また特に金属板については、材料の在庫量を増やすことによって喫緊の顧客オーダーに応えてきました。

    TVD社の幹部は、材料フローの難しい調整と、標準的な顧客サービスを維持するためのストレスの多い対応に対しての解決策を見出そうと、7年間を費やしてきました。この目標を達成する方法は、販売、購買、生産のプランニング プロセスの改善であると認識していました。最初の取組みとして、企業情報システムのサプライヤーと協力し、数年間の取り組みと個別開発を行いましたが、設定した目標の達成には至りませんでした。このような経緯からTVD社は、高度生産プランニング(APS)分野におけるエキスパートであるLOGISと、プランニング プロセスの開発プロジェクトに焦点を当てることを決定しました。

    TVD社の取締役副会長兼生産担当役員のMiroslav Strnad氏は、プランニング問題の解決に対する別のプロジェクトにおける協力体制と比較して、以下のように述べています。「私が見たところ、二つのパートナーのアプローチで最も明らかに違う点は、最初のパートナーのケースでは個別開発が行われたのですが、LOGISの場合は、私たちが業務仕様を作り上げた時点で、既にプロジェクトの開始前に要件を定義し、問題解決のための課題を明確にし、さらにプロジェクトの目標達成のためのアプローチをコントロールすることが可能となっていた点です。また私は、LOGISの専門家達の経験を非常に高く評価しています。彼らは、全く新しい領域を見つけ出す際の手助けをしてくれました。彼らの助けがなければ、多くの問題の解決が全く不可能だったことでしょう。」

    「プロジェクト終了後、まだ1年間も経っていない今現在に、非常に重要な多くの価値を確認することができています。プランニング プロセスの質が全体的に改善されたことと、市場の変化に素早く対応できる能力を得たことに加え、既にKPIの明確な向上がみて取れました。例えば、プロジェクトで導入し、ツールと手法の適用に成功したことにより、材料在庫の削減に著しい効果があり、稼働開始から6カ月の間に39%減少しました。」

    「長い時間を経て、私たちが満足のできる、また弊社のケースにおける長期的な視点を備えたソリューションを見つけることができ、大変喜ばしく思っています。そして、さらに重要なことは、ソリューションのさらなる開発を共に行うことができる、プランニング分野における専門家集団のいる信頼のできるパートナーを見つけることができた、ということです」とMiroslav Strnad氏は結びました。

    TVD – Technicka vyrobaについて

    TVD社の技術製造部門は、自社製品の製造のみでなく、国内外のパートナーからの要求に基づく顧客製品の、確証され信頼性のあるサプライヤーとして、長年の伝統ある会社です。15,000㎡を超える敷地を有し、420人の有能な従業員を雇用しています。また地域雇用安定の発展にも寄与しています。その伝統、ブランド、安定性によって、この分野において非常に重要な会社となっています。TVDの技術製造部門は、複数の独立したセンターを含め、2部門で構成されています。これらのセンターは、高度な専門的サービスと製品を提供し、個別の分野に特化しています。

    LOGISについて

    LOGISは、企業におけるマネージメントの質の改善と競争力に焦点を当てた、専門的サービスと情報技術を提供するサプライヤーです。提供製品は、顧客企業におけるマネージメントの効率性向上と、ビジネスにおける成功の展開を目的としたプロジェクトの形で実現されます。LOGISのソリューションは、サプライチェーンマネージメント(SCM)、および高度プランニング・スケジューリング(APS)の分野における、高効率なIT技術と、高度なマネージメントおよびプランニング手法や手順(手段)を適用しています。

    Titan giant PSC “VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation” improves customer service

    PSC “VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation”, a titanium producer and the leading supplier for aviation companies like AIRBUS and BOEING, decided to accommodate the requirements of its customers for clearer visibility of its order fulfillment process and to further improve operational efficiency. The corporation will reach these goals by implementing a New Generation Planning project with LOGIS.

    Verkhnaya Salda, Russia, February 12, 2015

    VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation is a stable and reliable supplier and has been able to successfully grasp growth opportunities in recent years. However, as each growth increases management complexity, the corporation found it harder and harder to deal with the increasing pressure of today’s highly competitive market, demanding even better on-time reliability and better visibility of how the orders are being fulfilled. In order to keep the high standard of customer satisfaction its clients grew accustomed to, and to further improve operational efficiency, the management of the corporation decided to implement a project aiming at a major improvement of the order fulfillment process and the related KPIs by innovating its production planning process.

    VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation is a customer-oriented company. The corporation is constantly working on providing products with even higher added value. However, this cannot be achieved only by extending the production by new facilities and furthermore, there are more ways the company can provide added value to customers than through the end product. Visibility of order fulfillment and the ability to keep to the promised due dates is also an aspect of significant value for the customer.

    However improving these aspects of production is not possible without a progressive approach to the art of production management and its planning. VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation thusly chose a partner – LOGIS company for which production planning is the main focus and which has conclusively achieved a vast number of respectable improvements in various demanding planning environments. Together with its partner, the corporation is going to radically reorganize the process of production planning, and bring it to a qualitatively new level.

    “Life itself dictates the need for innovative instruments for production planning,” – says Paul Kovalnogov, Head of Information Technology, VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation. “Today, the development of the corporation leads us to the point where we, as the Office of Information Technology, don’t need to promote any automation solutions in the field of planning. Business users themselves require us to provide informatization to these important processes. Together with LOGIS we aim to create a unified information environment for production planning, which will be deeply integrated with existing accounting systems of all key workshops of the corporation.”

    Mr. Vitaly Solodovnikov, Business Development Director, adds the view of the LOGIS Company: “I believe the decision to use New Generation Planning technology at VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation in order to increase Customer Delivery Performance, together with Operational Efficiency, fits well into the company’s strategy to provide products with high added value to the main players of aerospace industry, and to do so reliably and be highly competitive. From the position of the supplier, I can state that the project in VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation has good preconditions to become very successful and to help the company achieve its goals.”

    About VSMPO-Avisma

    PSC “VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation” is the world’s largest titanium producer, having a full production cycle, from raw material processing to finished products with a high degree of machining. The corporation supplies its products to the markets of 50 countries, it is deeply integrated into the global aerospace industry and it is a strategic supplier for many companies. The number of employees is 20 000. The controlling stake in VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation is owned by management, blocking stake – 25% plus one share belongs to Rostec.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    TVD is Going to Manage its Production More Efficiently

    TVD – Technická výroba, a.s. is a growing modern company showing regular increases in production volume. To manage this dynamic development and improve its reliability in meeting the delivery dates, the management decided to invest in a project focused on improvement of the order fulfillment process efficiency. Based on a thorough assessment of the potential implementation partners LOGIS was selected.

    Slavičín, Czech Republic, February 28, 2014

    “We are a modern and fast growing company pursuing the highest objectives. We endeavour to provide reliable deliveries to our customers and efficiently manage our company. We are aware that the corner stone in our efforts is complex management and planning. We like to choose the best solutions and our criteria are very demanding. That is why we selected LOGIS as a partner for such project because of its professionalism, experience and results of projects implemented”, explains Otto Durďák, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TVD – Technická výroba.

    “We face a challenge, an opportunity requiring high efforts to be exerted by both parties. A particularly demanding task will be the change in thinking of people and the improvement of order fulfillment process efficiency. We shall support the implementation of the related changes by our many years’ experience as well as advanced planning technologies. I do believe we will succeed in meeting the high requirements of TVD, contributing to achievement of the expected benefits“ adds Prokop Havlík, LOGIS Sales Director for Discrete Manufacturing.

    About TVD – Technická výroba

    TVD – Technická výroba boasts of long tradition not only as a manufacturer of its own products but also as a proven and reliable supplier of customer products required by both local and foreign partners. Its basis is formed by two divisions comprising several separate centres specializing in different sectors which allows them to render highly professional services and products.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    World’s No. 1 in Vinyl Plates Production GZ Media Invests in the Efficiency of Order Fulfillment Process

    GZ Media ranks among the world’s most significant players in media, printing and packing industry. Faced by the fact that success in today’s highly competitive environment necessitates improvement of operational efficiency and customer service, the management decided to implement a project focused on production planning and management advancement. LOGIS was selected as a partner.

    Loděnice, Czech Republic, February 2, 2014

    General Manager Michal Štěrba states: “Our company is customer oriented. We offer our customers complete solutions meeting their requirements, with personalized approach and substantial cost saving in case they place an order with us. We work hard continuously to achieve improvement and to be capable of offering more in the domain of printing, package or data carrier manufacture or product assembly and distribution.“

    In today’s turbulent environment we cannot rely only on investments in new production capacities, introduction of new products, quality improvement, etc. Our customer focus and creation of value-add solutions makes pressure on search for ways to increase our attractiveness for customers also by being able to offer higher flexibility as well as reliability in meeting the agreed delivery dates. And the latter has become our prime goal in the customer service quality improvement.

    “This task is not easy to fulfil. In order to be able to accomplish this objective in the present stage when the number of orders is increasing, we have to implement an overall change in the company’s planning process because we are not settle with a minor improvement; we need a substantial change. And this change must be supported by substantially improved abilities to organize the order fulfillment process.

    We selected LOGIS as a partner to assist us in the execution of this demanding task because it convinced us it is one of the best suppliers not only from the viewpoint of knowledge of the best production planning practices but, more importantly, because it is able to regularly achieve real improvements at its customers in this area“.

    “We like to work with companies which set out high objectives for them and can pursuit the objectives with high perseverance, with those which are not content with being an outstanding entity in their country but want to rival anyone in the world – and this is just the characteristics of GZ Media. Projects focused on change in the order planning and execution process are among the most challenging ones which are implemented in manufacturing companies. I believe the efforts exerted by both parties and, in particular, the employment of our many years’ experience both in local and foreign projects will enable us to achieve the expected benefits,” adds Tomáš Vojtík, Executive Director at LOGIS.

    About GZ Media

    GZ Media, a.s. follows more than fifty years’ tradition of Gramofonové závody continuously extending the offer of products and services since its origin in 1999. Supported by US capital and led by Czech managers, the company developed itself in a modern enterprise ranking among the world’s most renowned players in its industry. The CD and DVD replication, production of vinyls (gramophone plates), ample experience in polygraphic production and top customer service are appraised by thousands of satisfied customer throughout the globe.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    L D M invests in the improvement of management efficiency and customer service

    In early October 2013 L D M, a major producer of industrial valves with long history of production in Česká Třebová launched a project aimed to improve production economy and L D M ability to execute orders meeting the customers’ needs and wishes. A partner of the project is LOGIS, specializing in provision of expert services and advanced planning technologies.

    Česká Třebová, Czech Republic, 21/10/2013

    L D M is a dynamic company showing steady growth of production volume as well as product range. This remarkably increases the demands for production management and planning. The existing tools for production planning and management are not capable of meeting the increasing requirements in the current economic environment, which is characterized, inter alia, by high pressure on meeting deadlines, shortening of lead times, acceleration of response on changes, etc. The company management therefore decided to undertake a project aimed to improve not only the customer service but also the overall company management efficiency making use of expert services and skills of LOGIS consultants with the support of JDA Factory Planner tool.

    Ing. Vlastimil Dytrt, Chief Executive Officer of L D M summarized his expectation as follows: “We believe L D M competitiveness will be strengthened after the project completion so that our market share will be extended and we will also be able to further expand our activities into demanding foreign markets. We realize the fulfilment of this tasks will require a great deal of common efforts – from the improvement of Helios Green information system data quality level through establishment of data connections to optimization of company processes so that the increasingly demanding customer requirements can be flexibly responded to. Apart from improved efficiency and performance of the company, we expect the proposed solution will also provide a clear identification of problems in our order book.”

    Ing. Tomáš Vojtík Executive Director of LOGIS adds the view of the company: “In this project LOGIS will employ its abundant experience in production planning in the environment of single-part or short-run production accumulated through dozens projects implemented in the Czech Republic and abroad. Our active approach to problem solution was appreciated by the client as early as during the business negotiations as a contrary of the usual procedure applied to implement classic information systems. We are ready to pursue this proactive approach also during the project execution. I believe it will drive us to the goal striven by both parties which is the improvement of operational efficiency and enhancement of customer service of L D M”.

    About L D M

    L D M , spol. s r.o. was founded by three partners in 1991 and it continues the tradition of valve production in Česká Třebová, Czech Republic, which dates back to 1909. L D M is a successful Czech manufacturer of industrial valves focused on design, development, construction, production and installation of wide range of control, safety, non-return and shut-off valves applied mostly in power and heating plant engineering, industry and classic as well as nuclear power engineering. L D M sells its production not only in the Czech Republic but operates successfully also at demanding foreign markets.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    VSMPO-AVISMA、LOGIS の新世代 プランニングシステムに着手

    VSMPO-AVISMA社とLOGISは、新世代プランニングシステム構築の第一ステージの本稼働に成功したことを発表しました。これは、高レベルの顧客納期遵守(需要家への供給の迅速性、信頼性、柔軟性)と、オペレーションの効率性向上(オーダー充当の経済効率の改善)のサポートに向けた、最初の主要段階が完了したことを示すものです。

    ロシア、ヴェルフナヤ・サルダ、2016年10月13日

    レベルの高い顧客サービスを維持するために、またオペレーションの効率性をさらに改善するために、VSMPO-AVISMA社の経営幹部は、2015年初めに、新世代プランニングシステムの第一ステージをLOGISと共に導入することを決定しました。主要な目標は、オーダー充当プロセスと、それに関連するKPIの改善です。

    主要なタスクとしては、第一段階ではチタンインゴットの溶解から始まり完成品の出荷までの材料フローの同期化、生産周期のサポートに対する解決でした。ソフトウェア製品のLOGISプロダクションプランナーは、新しく開発されたVSMPO-AVISMAのプランニングシステムの基盤として使われました。

    VSMPO-AVISMA社の生産部長 Oleg Ryabov氏は以下のことを強調して述べました。「プロジェクトの導入によってVSMPO-AVISMAのエキスパート チームは、生産プランニングプロセスを、全く新しい視点から見ることができるようになりました。例えば私たちは、生産管理に対して高度なアプローチを採用している、LOGISの顧客である先進的な鉄鋼会社に会い、彼らのメソッドのいくつかを、実際に弊社の環境で使い始めました。」さらに次のように述べています。「私たちは、弊社における継続した改善のベースとなる高度プランニング システムと、エキスパートチームの基盤を構築することができました。プランニング システムの発展は、プロジェクトの終了をもって止まるものではないということは、強調するべきことです。LOGISからの良質なサポートにもかかわらず、他の理由からプロジェクト期間中に弊社側での全ての作業を完了させることができませんでした。従って私たちは今、規範的データの質の向上、エンドユーザーへのトレーニングの提供、弊社の会計政策の改善への取り組みを続けています。」

    VSMPO-AVISMA社のIT部門長 Pavel Kovalnogov氏は以下のように述べています。「生産プランニング システムの導入は、どの会社のIT部門にとっても重大な課題です。」さらに「高度プランニング システムの根本原理は、ERPシステムのイデオロギーとは完全に異なっています。そのため私たちは、弊社の内部プロセスのリエンジニアリングに、そしてまず初めに、私たちの考え方を変えることに時間が必要でした。私たちのパートナーであるLOGISからの、非常に高いレベルのサポートに感謝したいと思います。彼らの専門家としての経験と知識、さらに私たちの粘り強さが相まって、プロジェクトを成功することができました。」と述べました。

    事業開発ディレクターのVitaly Solodovnikov氏は、さらにLOGIS に対して以下のように述べています。「サプライヤーとして、このプランニング システム導入の第一ステージの結果を高く評価します。需要家への納期遵守率と共にオペレーションの効率性を向上させるために、VSMPO-AVISMA社においてLOGIS新世代高度プランニング技術を活用するという決定は、高付加価値の製品を航空宇宙産業の主要顧客に供給するための、またそれを信頼性をもって行い、高い競争力を有するための会社の戦略に、非常に高く貢献しています。」

    LOGISのCEO兼会長のDalibor Konvicka氏は、「ロシアの鉄鋼・金属会社との協業については、大変良い展望を感じています。VSMPO-AVISMA社とのプロジェクトは非常に良い例です。VSMPO-AVISMA社との協業が継続し、両者にとって相互利益を生む結果になると確信しています。」と述べています。

    VSMPO-Avisma社について

    PSC VSMPO-AVISMA 社は、高度な機械加工能力と共に、原材料加工から完成品までのフル生産サイクルを有している世界最大のチタン生産会社です。製品を50カ国の市場に供給し、地球規模の航空宇宙産業に深く貢献しており、多くの企業にとっての戦略的サプライヤーとなっています。従業員数は20,000人です。

    LOGISについて

    LOGISは、企業におけるマネージメントの質の改善と競争力に焦点を当てた、専門的サービスと情報技術を提供するサプライヤーです。提供製品は、顧客企業におけるマネージメントの効率性向上と、ビジネスにおける成功の展開を目的としたプロジェクトの形で実現されます。LOGISのソリューションは、サプライチェーンマネージメント(SCM)、および高度プランニング・スケジューリング(APS)の分野における、高効率なIT技術と、高度なマネージメントおよびプランニング手法や手順(手段)を適用しています。

    Meopta-optika Focuses Attention on Production Planning

    The prime purpose of the Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling Project launched by Meopta-optika, s.r.o. at the beginning of June 2013 is to improve the company competitiveness. The project will be managed by LOGIS in the capacity of an implementation partner.

    Přerov, Czech Republic, June 21, 2013

    Meopta-optika ranks among companies with global reach in the field of design, development, construction, production and installation of optical, optomechanical and optoelectronic systems. Apart from the main production plant located in Přerov, it operates a production and installation plant on Long Island, NY, USA.

    “Meopta’s production is characteristic with wide product range and enormous number of minor orders with high complexity of most of the products. The issue of planning of so complicated discrete production has been a point intensely addressed by us for several years. Although we have achieved significant progress in this area enabled by an upgrade of the existing ERP system, we arrived at a conclusion that we are barred by limitations of mainly technological nature (MRPII concept) as well as organizational and process nature. Since today’s age calls for progressive approach to the art of production management and planning we decided to implement a project which would move us far ahead of our competitors. The project will be implemented with a partner which deals with the planning and scheduling as its principal specialization and can boast with provable achievements clearly showing its capability to help us to overcome all limitations. It is LOGIS that is deemed by us to be such a partner. Its offer contains all attributes demanded by us. Process development is an ordinary constituent of every projects executed by LOGIS so its clients need not bother themselves with the required process changes. LOGIS specialists enjoy extensive knowledge of and experience in development of complex, well-proven planning and scheduling models as well as planning and scheduling system integration in the existing information system environment. In addition, the planning software provided by LOGIS is a robust, powerful and established technology,” says Vlastimil Cech, Confidential Clerk and Senior Director of Production & Supply Chain Management at Meopta-optika commenting the company management’s decision.

    “I see Meopta-optika is a progressive company exploiting the latest manufacturing technologies and employing top-class experts. I believe the selection of LOGIS solution fits the company strategy to work with the leaders in their industry. In my opinion, the initial project has all features necessary to be a great success, whether in terms of sound preparation in the form of thoroughly conducted tendering procedure, large and skilful project team including support from the IT Department by which the interface with Microsoft Dynamics AX information system will be developed, or in terms of high priority attached to the project internally at Meopta,” says Tomáš Vojtík, Executive Director of LOGIS summarizing his expectations.

    About Meopta-optika

    Meopta is a global manufacturer of optics specializing in the design, development, construction, production and installation of optical, optomechanical a optoelectronic systems. It offers complete and innovative solutions for consumer, industrial and military applications to customers throughout the world.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    Manufacturing plant of Swiss Ammann will manage production more efficiently

    The chief building contractor for machines, systems and services with core competencies in the field of asphalt and for worldwide road construction. That is how Swiss Ammann Group Holding AG describes itself; it also includes the Czech production plant Ammann Czech Republic a.s., which specializes in the manufacturing of compaction machines – various types of rollers. Always have a competitive edge in parameters such as customer service and operational efficiency, is the strategic plan of the company, which is why it decided to support its fulfilment via the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) project. The partner selected for its implementation was LOGIS.

    Nove Mesto nad Metují, Czech Republic, June 11, 2013

    Ammann is a dynamic company that increases its annual production volume, extending also the range of its product portfolio and thus having to face significantly increasing demands for production management and planning. The performance of the existing tools to support the planning process is proving to be inadequate and therefore it was decided to implement a system for advanced planning and scheduling (APS). The problem was to choose a solution that would respect the internal corporate standards set in the SAP information system while still offering a high degree of certainty of increase in the operational efficiency. After having carefully chosen a partner for the implementation of this solution, which was based on the detailed study undertaken by the candidate, the selected implementation partner was LOGIS with JDA Factory Planner tool.

    Managing Director of the Czech plant Ing. Jiří Špaňhel, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, formulates his expectations as follows: “We have chosen a partner that best met our requirements; its project feasibility study convinced us of the validity of this choice. I believe that mutual cooperation will bring the expected results, in particular a more efficient and accurate process control.”

    Director of Sales for the discrete manufacturing of LOGIS, Ing. Prokop Havlik, states: “It was not easy to find a solution that would not interfere within corporate settings of SAP information system and at the same time meet the expectations of Ammann regarding advanced planning and scheduling features. For our part I can guarantee that the project will allow us to apply the experience in production planning, which we have gathered during more than twenty years of history of our company through the implementation of dozens of successful projects in the field of custom engineering. I believe that the combination of our experience and enthusiasm of the key project team members on the part of Ammann will lead to the objectives outlined.”

    About Ammann Czech Republic

    Ammann Czech Republic a.s. is part of the AMMANN Group Holding AG and specializes in the manufacture of compaction machines (from packer to trailer roller, from additional compaction technology up to intelligent compaction system) – it offers a comprehensive range of products of the highest quality.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    LOGIS Project to Support Flexibility and Improve Operational Efficiency of a Mine Locomotive Producer

    FERRIT s.r.o., one of the world’s major producers of mine locomotives and their accessories, decided to support its flexibility in deliveries and improve its production efficiency through an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) project implementation. LOGIS will act as a partner for the project implementation.

    Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Czech Republic, 18/3/2013

    RIT is a dynamically developing company with steady year-by-year sales increases by many tens of per cents. The growing number of purchase orders from customers, increase in the number of company employees, enlargement of product range and other factors are endangering the traditional competitive edge of FERRIT – flexibility in responses to customer demands – which has been maintained by the company for many years. To secure the customer service level against any related threats in future FERRIT management chose to implement a project focused on modernization of the planning process and information system which will be supplemented with a JDA Factory Planner advanced planning tool.

    icting his expectations from the project, Ing. Petr Kovář, a co-owner and executive of the company, says: “The prime precondition set by me for embarking on the project was getting a partner which will be able to manage the project professionally, define priorities, allocate and follow up tasks and will become a genuine adviser putting forward alternatives of the steps to be taken and describing their consequences instead of asking us how do we want to address the different problems. I believe we succeeded in getting such a partner. The progress of the project attests to this; the quality of management by LOGIS considerably surpasses all IT projects executed at our company up to now.”

    can guarantee on behalf of the contractor that our experience in production planning accumulated in dozens of advanced planning projects carried out in single-part or small-batch custom machinery manufacture environments both in our country and abroad will be made use of to the maximum extent possible. We will also do our best to support the improvement of data quality in the information system but majority of the work in this field will have to be done by the customer’s personnel. I believe our joint efforts will enable us to attain the targets laid down, namely the improvement of operational efficiency and support of flexibility in responses to customer demands”, notes Ing. Tomáš Vojtík, Executive Director of LOGIS.

    project, all outcomes of which will be put into routine operation in early 2014, is co-financed from Potential Programme fund under EU Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovations.

    About FERRIT

    The scope of FERRIT s.r.o. business is construction and maintenance of machines with mechanical drive designed for application in explosive environment, purchase of goods for resale, and sales. The company continues the tradition of Czech manufacturing of machinery for mining employing ample contacts and skills of its staff with many years’ experience obtained in commercial and development departments.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    Production planning in the automotive environment using advanced technologies

    Today already a traditional supplier of moulded panels predominantly for the automotive industry, the company MS technik s.r.o., applies advanced production scheduling (APS) to enhance its operational efficiency. The implementation partner will be the LOGIS company.

    Šenov u Nového Jičína, 5.1.2012

    The project, whose total duration is scheduled for seven months, will cover the complete range of production of MS technik – Pressing shop, Tool room and Galvanizing shop. A significant part of the project will be funded by grants from the program of European Union ICT in enterprises. Proxy-holder and co-owner of the MS technik company Mr. Stanislav Šťastný, CSc justifies the victory of LOGIS in the tendering process: “We expected that even in the choice of the APS project supplier we will, as usual, have to look for a compromise between high quality and reasonable price. I was positively surprised by the offer from LOGIS. Its solution can be labelled state-of-the-art without exaggeration, yet the price of the project is acceptable for us. Actual costs will be reduced also by a grant from the ICT program in enterprises, for which we as a company belonging to the category of medium-sized companies, applied, an which was already approved. “The automotive industry is a segment that is facing tremendous competitive pressures that make the industry profit margins squeezed to a minimum and high quality is considered to be commonplace, as well as 100% term compliance with customer requirements. It is the situation on the market on which we operate that is forcing us to implement measures thanks to which we can face the competitive pressures mentioned. The advanced planning project launched at the end of 2011 aims to maintain and secure our excellent term reliability of deliveries towards the customers while optimizing internal operational efficiency of MS technik. I believe that the hitherto results of LOGIS in this area are enough to guarantee success of the project implemented by us.” The Sales Director of LOGIS, Mr. Prokop Havlík evaluates the hitherto cooperation: “Despite tough market conditions the MS technik thrives to grow since its foundation in 2001 continuously and in recent years it succeeded in reaching annual sales exceeding 300 million CZK. If the demand does not fall globally, I believe that the development of turnover of MS technik will continue to maintain its rising trend. In this context, I appreciate the management’s decision to choose a solution that not only covers the actual needs of the company, but will also be useful in the long term, after a change in conditions reflecting the company growth. In the course of the project a data interface to the corporate information system QI will be created. Implementation of the key part of the interface will be performed by the supplier of ERP system, the company MELZER. “It s already the third project, which incorporates connection of our supplied information system QI and APS solution JDA Factory Planner solution from LOGIS. The frequency of implementation of projects in this configuration shows that it is an interesting combination, now also certified, with standardized data links. With regard to the previously well-functioning cooperation, common segment of customers and the relationship of both companies, which is definitely not competitive – rather the contrary, I believe that this is not the last joint project,” adds CEO MELZER Mr. Jan Duba.

    About MS technik

    The company MS technik spol. s r.o. already since its establishment in 2001 focuses its activities mainly on the automotive industry. MS technik consists of two manufacturing plants, in Šenov u Nového Jičína, where the administration of the company is seated and in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. The company annually creates a good environment for the development of employment opportunities in the region. In addition to that it significantly develops activities on domestic and foreign markets.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    KONŠTRUKTA – Industry innovates business processes and supporting information technologies

    KONŠTRUKTA – Industry, a manufacturer of process equipment for the tire industry and the processing of explosive materials, has adopted a strategic decision to implement a project aimed at streamlining of the job order processing and improvement of its information technology support. The project will be implemented together with LOGIS.

    Trencin, December 20, 2011

    The decision of the Board of Directors of KONŠTRUKTA – Industry is commented on by its Vice Chairman and Director for Economics Mr. Vladimír Lobotka: “Even our field of industry experienced a fall in demand in the years 2008 and 2009, fortunately, in the following year we got almost to the performances of “pre-crisis” level. That what, unfortunately, did not return to its original level, are the requirements of our customers in the area of job order term fulfilment – we are forced to significantly reduce lead times and due to the competitive fight also reduce our realization costs. This situation, together with the need to modernize our information systems, has led to the strategic decision to upgrade the entire job order realization process and its supporting technologies.” “We have been considering two options, namely to establish a long standing cooperation with our existing partners or radical change in the form of implementation of a comprehensive information system from the workshop of one of the multinational producers. Finally, after having ourselves acquainted in a detailed way with various solutions, we clearly opted for the first one. The reason for choosing LOGIS as the key partner for the implementation of the project consisted mainly in its focus on business objectives, expertise of its consultants and range of experiences with the projects in our industry – piece engineering and custom manufacturing.” The Executive Director of LOGIS, Mr. Tomáš Vojtík adds the following: “The foreign activities of LOGIS in recent years outweigh domestic projects. Although this project is realized abroad, we feel in Trencin at home. And it is not just because our collaboration has been going on for many years. I believe that the hitherto manifested interest in the project by senior management and proactive approach of project team members will be important factors that will help to achieve common goals – improvement of term reliability and the reduction of lead times of job orders delivered by KONŠTRUKTA – Industry.” During the ten months-long project we will apply APS (advanced production planning) instrument JDA Factory Planner in the area of planning of production resources and material needs; transactions recording and production logistics management will be performed using FACTORY EC ERP / PPS system.

    About KONŠTRUKTA – Industry

    KONŠTRUKTA-Industry, a.s. is a Joint Stock Company whose history dates back to 1953. Until the end of 80-ies the company was engaged in the development and prototype production for defense equipment and special-purpose technologies. Currently, the KONŠTRUKTA-Industry, a.s. company develops, manufactures and supplies complex production lines and special machines as well as provides services to customers in the following areas: technological equipment for tire production, technological equipment for processing of explosive materials, equipment for mechanization and automation, cooperative and small-lot production engineering. The company employs about 360 workers, of which 70 in the development and construction, 220 workers in manufacturing.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    LOGIS builds New Generation Planning System for Timken

    The Timken Company (OH, USA) became a pioneer of so-called Advanced Planning (APS) in the early nineties by implementing i2 Factory Planner as the very first customer of now legendary i2 Technologies. Today, after twenty years, Timken decided to build a new generation planning system. The partner for realization of this project is the LOGIS company.

    Canton, Ohio; 21/3/2011

    LOGIS, a Czech supplier of expert supply chain management services and a producer of advanced planning and scheduling software, announced today that it will build a new production planning and order fulfillment system for The Timken Company – a global friction management and power transmission solutions provider. “Improved customer service is the main driver of the project,” said William P. Bryan, director – supply chain and supply chain economics at Timken. “LOGIS’s production planning and order fulfillment system will provide better tools and improved processes so we can provide more accurate commitments to the customers and improve on-time delivery. Better planning will also yield increased capacity and reduced inventory levels.” “Timken is a matter of the heart for us,” said Dalibor Konvicka, Chairman and CEO at LOGIS. “The very first implementation of i2’s Factory Planner product was done at Timken. Over the last year, we also worked jointly with Timken to implement a new production planning system for their primary steel mills – so we know we’re able to handle very complex problems together. For this new project, we expect to set new limits of what a planning system can provide to a steel producer. This ambition would be hardly thinkable and achievable without having a customer such as Timken.” The project will be implemented over the next 19 months utilizing several LOGIS software products, including JDA Factory Planner, LOGIS Campaign Planner and LOGIS Material Allocator. The LOGIS Caster Scheduler, which Timken has used since last September, will be upgraded and integrated more closely with the other software tools.

    About The Timken Company

    The Timken Company keeps the world turning, with innovative friction management and power transmission products and services, enabling our customers’ machinery to perform more efficiently and reliably. With sales of $3.1 billion in 2009 and operations in 26 countries, Timken is Where You Turn™ for better performance.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    Timken successfully goes live with LOGIS Caster Scheduler

    Last year, an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software implementation project was carried out at The Timken Company. Since September, the company has utilized LOGIS Caster Scheduler product during routine operation to help achieve its operations goals.

    Canton, Ohio: 14/1/2011

    LOGIS, a Czech producer of Advanced Planning and Scheduling software technologies, announced today that it has successfully completed the implementation of its LOGIS Caster Scheduler product for The Timken Company, a global friction management and power transmission products provider. The Caster Scheduler is being used by the company’s Steel Group, which produces alloy steel bars and tubing and offers value-added steel processing. “Creating a high-quality order fulfillment plan for Timken’s Steel Group meant dealing with large number of constraints and business objectives that need to be satisfied. LOGIS Caster Scheduler can deal with these challenges quickly and efficiently. Thanks to that, today we have top-quality plans for our short- and long-run orders. The LOGIS Caster Scheduler is helping us enhance service to our customers and increase our operational excellence,” said William P. Bryan, director – supply chain and supply chain economics at Timken. “From the inception of our relationship with LOGIS, we have had a common vision…that we will only accept success. This philosophy is prevalent in all that LOGIS does. They have all the required tools and skills to succeed, but most importantly they have the desire to provide business benefits to their customers and they will not rest until they deliver what they have committed.” “The cooperation with the Timken team was a professional experience for us. The teams on both sides worked under heavy pressure and had to deal with a number of demanding tasks. None of that, however, had any effect on the good atmosphere, which was present throughout the implementation,“ said Dalibor Konvicka, Chairman and CEO at LOGIS. “Timken is known for being one of the first major companies that used advanced planning software technologies in the early 90s. We are glad to be able to contribute to the increase of their planning and ordering system at this highly progressive company.“

    About The Timken Company

    The Timken Company keeps the world turning, with innovative friction management and power transmission products and services, enabling our customers’ machinery to perform more efficiently and reliably. With sales of $3.1 billion in 2009 and operations in 26 countries, Timken is Where You Turn™ for better performance.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    MAGO S.A. started to implement advanced production planning and scheduling system

    The company MAGO S.A. offering equipment for sales and stocking premises decided to support the efficiency of its management system and to use the advanced planning and scheduling technology (APS). The implementation partner of this project is LOGIS Company. During the project, which is planned to be completed within 5 months, the implementation of JDA Factory Planner will be carried out.

    Nadarzyn k/Warszawy, 07.09.2010

    On 7th September 2010 the MAGO Company initiated a project of implementation of APS system JDA Factory Planner. The project will be realized in two stages within a total of 5 months, according to plan. Krzysztof Sierputowski, the chairman of the board of directors of MAGO says the following about the reasons for project realization: „MAGO is a very fast-developing company. In recent years we have been investing significant means in the development of our company. We feel an increased interest in our supplies. Production capacities of our company are still increasing and therefore it is still increasingly complicated to maintain the economical efficiency, pace, reliability and flexibility of the realization of supplies. With regard to the fact that basic information systems (ERP) are not able to efficiently support the process of planning and management of the realization of job orders, we decided to apply the solution for advanced production planning and scheduling – APS . Our goal was to have a highly efficient planning and scheduling at hand that will be able to take into account all the essential limits (performance, material, tooling, employees etc.). We want to have a system that is capable of preparing plans of high standard and high quality that will serve the management needs well and efficiently. Concurrently a system with the possibility of fast re-planning and verification of realistic term of delivery – these are also key properties for our company that a planning system should have. As the application partner we selected LOGIS – an experienced partner with top product JDA Factory Planner and offer of professional services in the area of change of planning process, of which we were convinced by a series of positive references as well as reference visit at one of the LOGIS clients. We are convinced of fast return of this investment not only in the form of better services provided to our customers, but also in the form of optimization of costs in the area of production logistics and efficiency. We have to state that we did not find any other supplier on our market that would be able to offer similar results of its projects or understand our needs. Our decision for LOGIS was obvious.” Artur Głodek, director of LOGIS POLAND and Country Manager, says the following about MAGO: “Our client shows great commitment to changes in its company, the commitment to increase the capacity of the primary production process. The people in the company have clear and structured idea of the goals and advantages of the project and also the complicacy or changes that will occur in the course of the implementation. We believe that our planning technology, know-how as well as rich experience in tune-up of the efficiency of the general corporate processes shall help MAGO to achieve their goals.

    About MAGO

    Since 1989 MAGO produces equipment for all types of shops. As a leading producer in the area of racks and shelves in Poland it decided to enter the market for high stacking racks. MAGO S.A. is presently a leading producer of racks and shelves for shops in Europe with an extensive distribution network in many countries. Innovation project and modern technologies it uses for design and production guarantee a preparation of solution that optimally meet the clients’ expectations. MAGO Group – these are modern companies with fully automated production lines and extensive stocking capacity. It disposes with almost 40 thou. m2 of production shops and warehouses in Rusiec, Rawa Mazowiecka (Poland) and also in Russia. MAGO group is a well-known and recognized brand trusted by customers all-over the world. More than 20 years of experience and analysis of needs of the biggest chains in Europe enable MAGO to offer the most efficient solution for sales and stocking areas. The priority of the company consists in optimum use of the sales area in shops and stocks as well as efficient setting of their equipment.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    Advanced Planning Technology for Efficient Microscope Production Management

    The company TESCAN, a.s., global supplier of instrumentation and scientific device of especially scanning electron microscopes decided to make use of the grant program of the European Union ICT in companies to increase efficiency of planning and customer relationship by means of realization of project of implementation of advanced planning system (APS). The winner of the tender is LOGIS a.s. Within the project it will provide for implementation of JDA Factory Planner system in the upcoming seven months.

    Brno, 1.9. 2010

    The joint stock company TESCAN is purely Czech enterprise, whose brand built its position especially thanks to development and production of scanning electron microscopes and their application for various purposes. “The city of Brno is a traditional research centre in the area of electron microscopy and instrumentation in general”, sais Ing. Jaroslav Klíma, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company and adds: “TESCAN puts all the effort in the continuous development of its products and ensurance of maximum technological advantage for its clients. Thanks to that our products rank amongst the globally reputable instruments in the area of micro- and nano- technologies. The technology alone, however, could hardly succeed in the global competition without perfect customer service.” Jaroslav Klíma comments the decision about investment in the change of process planning as follows: “Our clients are still increasingly exacting. We are subject to pressure of delivery times, which, together with our every-year growth of the production volume, complicates meeting of the promised delivery terms and increases the demands for coordination of individual activities between the company departments of sales, production and purchasing. Our current management and planning possibilities within the corporate ERP system are limited, hence the change. We realize that the way we have taken, will costs us a lot of energy. However, from the point of view of long-term growth and increase of the standard of our services this project belongs to the key ones.” RNDr. Petr Němec, financial director of TESCAN and coordinator of tender proceedings, clarifies the decision of selection of the supplier of solution: “Our initial goal was to select such partner, about whom we will be convinced that he can reliably understand our requests, specific nature of production of microscopes and that he will be able to propose and realize changes necessary to increase efficiency of the process of business planning and realization. The LOGIS company, as the only of the suppliers was able to present the planning model of our company after realization of the project meeting all our criteria and requirements. Reference visit in one of our customers of LOGIS company then reinforced our view that LOGIS belongs to the best in the field and that it can be entrusted the implementation of such a demanding change of production planning and control process in the environment of our company.” Ing. Tomáš Vojtík, member of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of LOGIS Company adds: “We are glad that in this uneasy period, when the companies consider each investment, there is an enterprise, whose representatives realize the necessity of high efficiency of the production control and planning to ensure long-term and perspective growth and to secure competitive strength on the international level. I strongly believe that with our experience we will be a reliable partner and assistant to TESCAN in this heading.” During the APS project we will create an interface for company ERP system Microsoft Dynamics AX. The supplier of this system, company Autocont CZ, a.s., will take a significant part in this step.

    About TESCAN

    TESCAN a.s. is a Czech company dealing with research, development and production and sale of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) for various applications, it delivers accessories for scanning electron microscopes and software to control these instruments. The quality of TESCAN products has been verified in more than 800 installed devices in more than fifty countries of the world.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    OMK Implements Advanced Production Planning System

    United Metallurgical Company (OMK)) decided to implement system of advanced production planning. Installation and implementation of the system will be realized by company LOGIS. Project realization should promote further improvement of effective management of ОМК business processes.

    Moscow 1.6.2010

    United Metallurgical Company (OMK), one of the biggest Russian domestic producers of pipes, railway wheels and other metal production for power engineering, transport and general industry, and company LOGIS, provider of expert services and information technologies, focused on improvement of management quality and competitiveness of its clients, signed an agreement, according which LOGIS will implement advanced production planning system at Vyksa Steel Works, Almetyevsk Pipe Plant and Casting and Rolling Complex (i.e. three of six industrial plants forming the ОМК group). „ОМК aspires to become the most effective company on the Russian pipe market,“ stressed OMK Director for supply chain management, Mr. Alexey Sdobnikov, commenting the project importance. „Competition in our industry perpetually grows. Therefore we constantly have to improve production effectiveness, and be a flexible, reliable and quick supplier of our products to our customers. One of the key terms necessary for achievement of these objectives is without doubt the effective management“. In 2009 was completed project of master planning based on solution SCP of i2 Technologies. On monthly basis the solution is used for creation of balanced plans of sales, production, purchase and transportation of pipe and wheel production, flat metal production and raw material. Implementation of the fluent master planning processes enables to evaluate operatively different scenarios for forming and corrections of annual and quarter budgets, evaluation of cash flow need, planning of sales and purchase volume. In 2010 company begins the implementation of project production order planning based on solution Factory Planner of i2 Technologies. Project is focused to coordination of market and sales, purchase and production departments leading to timely fulfillment of customer orders. Implementation of the order management system enables to shorten lead times without increase of inventory either in raw materials as well as in finished production. Automated processes of the order planning will become especially important for the effective management and support of the operational start of the Mill 5000 at Vyksa Metallurgical Plant in 2011. „The choice of implementer and technology has been done very thoroughly,“ continues Alexey Sdobnikov, „and it was done with regard what is presently the best available on the world market“. „We really appreciate that we are allowed to apply our know-how and technology of advanced planning and cooperate with such a renowned manufacturer,“ said Dalibor Konvicka, CEO of company LOGIS. „We are glad to quote that OMK team is one of rare groups having experience with implementation of APS software: some years ago company implemented module Master Planning of i2 Technologies production. In APS area ОМК is a pioneer among Russian industrial enterprises. For the work with company team we dedicated our best specialists“. Operational use of the new system of production planning in OMK will start in 2011. There will be implemented products i2 Factory Planner (producer i2 Technologies, presently part of JDA Group) and LOGIS Campaign Planner.

    About OMK

    United Metallurgical Company (OMK) is currently one of Russia’s largest producers of pipes, train wheels and other metal production for power engineering, transport and general industry. OMK comprises six large metallurgical enterprises. Pipe division includes Vyksa Steel Works (Nizhni Novgorod Region), Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (Republic of Tatarstan) and Trubodetal plant (Chelyabinsk Region); Steel Works Division includes Chusovoy Metallurgical Works, Schelkovo Metallurgical Works (Moscow Region) and Casting and Rolling Complex (Nizhni Novgorod Region). In 2009 ОМК achieved more than 24% of production of pipes made by Russian companies, of that more than 50% of large diameter pipes, met 61% of Russian demand for railway wheels and about 70% of domestic need for car springs. In 2009 ОМК plants produced more than 1, 65 million tons of pipes of different diameter and also 433,1 thousands of railway wheels. Among key customers of ОМК production belong leading Russian and international companies: Gazprom, Russian railways, Lukoil, AK Transneft, Surgutneftegaz, Rosneft, TNK – BP, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, General Electric, Samsung. ОМК production is delivered to 20 countries worldwide.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    BAST invests in the increase of efficiency of production planning and management process

    The company BAST, s.r.o., processor and producer of plate parts, weldments and bodies for railway vehicles, will in the following six months implement a project focused on the efficiency increase of planning process using their advanced planning system (APS) i2 Factory Planner. The project will be implemented under the lead of LOGIS company.

    Moravské Budějovice, 15/4/2010

    BAST, s.r.o. belongs already many years to successful suppliers of spare parts and sets for groups like SIEMENS, ALSTOM or BOMBARDIER. “Absolute necessity for long-term maintenance of this position is not only perfect product quality, but also increasing efficiency of the planning and management process allowing for permanent improvement of parameters of the customer service and operational efficiency,” says Mr. Miroslav Bazala, executive head and co-owner of the company. He ads that it would be hardly achievable without continuous increase of efficiency of the corporate processes. Mr. Miroslav Bazala further clarifies his decision: “In recent years we have been investing significant means in the growth of our company. With regard to the fact that basic information systems (ERP) are not able to efficiently support the process of planning and management of the realization of job orders, we gradually tried several systems for planning support of the APS category. Unfortunately the only thing we achieved was the improvement of the quality of database in our ERP system, however not the expected improvement of the planning process support. Our expectation was and is to have a highly efficient planning system able to consider all the substantial limitations (capacities, material, preparations, staff etc.), the system that is able to prepare quality plants well and usable to advantage for the management processes. This all also with the possibility of fast re-planning and verification of realistic term of delivery – these are also key properties for our company that a planning system should have. In the course of last weeks we have been facing the decision whether we will wait further years and try to develop our existing planning system without clear cut guarantees of fulfilment of our expectations or invest in quality and proven solution for support of the planning process that has provable results in our field of expertise. We decided for investment in the proven solution by LOGIS, despite the highest acquisition costs. We are however convinced of fast return of this investment not only in the form of better services to our customers, but also in the form of optimization of costs in the area of production logistics. In LOGIS we found an experienced partner with top product i2 Factory Planner and offer of professional services in the area of change of planning process, of which we were convinced by a series of successful references in the Czech Republic. Mr. Tomáš Vojtík, executive director of the LOGIS Company adds: “Negotiations with BAST were unusually fast and efficient. The fact that the company has gone through implementations of various planning support tools is positive for us, because the people in the company have clear and comprehensive idea not only of the goal and benefits of the project, but also of the intensity and changes that will occur during the realization of the project. It is necessary to point out that it is a big challenge also for us to be successful in the environment, where our competitors failed. Concurrently I believe that the demandingness and maturity of the client will contribute to very good results of this project”.

    About BAST

    The company BAST s.r.o. deals with complex processing of plate and production of steel plate parts. The company was established in 1991 and currently employs around 200 people. In 1999 the company was granted licence for production of parts and bodies for railway vehicles.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Global leader in production of professional illumination technology implements a production management and planning with LOGIS

    The company ROBE lighting s.r.o., leading global producer of mobile illumination technology used for illumination of scenes of concerts, theatre performances and other cultural events, initiated a project focused on increase of performance of corporate processes.

    Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, 23/2/2010

    e goal of the project shall be gradually fulfilled during a seven-month project, during which i2 Factory Planner, a tool for advanced planning and scheduling (APS) was used, as well as changes in the production planning process took place. Implementation of this demanding project was entrusted to LOGIS. „Our company ROBE lighting has already since its founding in 1993 been intensively developing, during the first twenty years of existence we have penetrated into the global top in our field of expertise; we belong to the three most important players in this branch of business. Our current position is a result of extraordinary standard of service, which we provide to our customers – we supply products of unique quality and top technological level to the market. We see a more significant potential for improvement and growth in last years in our internal efficiency. We have therefore already for a longer time been searching for a partner for this area on the market, in whom we would not have any doubts about his offering of only of a tool of globally accepted quality, but having also sufficient experience and positive references on an international level. I have to admit that we were surprised at the fact that we can find such partner only a half an hour drive from our seat in nearby Frenštát pod Radhoštěm. It is the LOGIS company. Its references in a series of domestic as well as global industrial enterprises lead us to believe that mutual cooperation will lead to common goal – increase of operational efficiency of ROBE lighting,” says Ladislav Petřek, the founder and co-owner of the company. Dalibor Konvička, managing director of the LOGIS Company adds: “We appreciate cooperation with ROBE lighting very much; we are always pleased by a possibility to cooperate with somebody, who managed to win recognition on global level. In our field of expertise we strive for achievement of the same and we believe that the cooperation will be inspiring in many aspects also for us. During the APS project we will create an interface for a corporate information system Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The supplier of the corporate information system PROVIS will participate in this step in a significant manner.

    About ROBE lighting

    Robe lighting is seated in the Czech Republic and manufactures innovative, high-quality mobile illumination and digital lighting products for professional entertainment and leisure time, architectonical and appearance-oriented industry.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improving the quality of management and competitive strengths of the customer enterprises. The supplies are realized in the form of projects with the aim of increasing management efficiency and developing business successes of the customers’ enterprises. Within its solutions, LOGIS applies advanced management and planning methods and procedures (best practices), including highly efficient information technologies from the field of supply chain management (SCM) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS).

    LOGIS Assists Steel Manufacturer in Enhancing Customer Service

    By application of advanced planning technologies, a steel manufacturer with global operations is aiming to reach new levels of Customer Satisfaction and Operational Excellence.

    Canton, Ohio: 9/2/2010

    LOGIS, a Czech producer of Advanced Planning and Scheduling software technologies announced today that it will provide and implement its Advanced Planning and Scheduling technologies to The Timken Company, a global friction management and power transmission products provider. “We are honored to have been given the opportunity to contribute our know-how and technology to the benefit of a company like Timken. It is a great obligation for us,” said Dalibor Konvicka, Chairman and CEO, at LOGIS. “During the preparatory period, we had the opportunity to meet many of Timken’s specialists and managers, and we learned Timken was amongst the first few companies to have started using Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software technologies. We are greatly looking forward to working together. This project has all the prerequisites for success.” “Timken’s Steel Group has used advanced methods and tools to plan and schedule our operations for many years. The addition of the LOGIS Caster Scheduler will allow us to take planning and scheduling to a higher level of sophistication, to enhance service to our customers.,” said William P. Bryan – director of supply chain and supply chain economics. “We selected the software and the implementer with great care. Our opinion is that LOGIS possesses the best expertise and technology available on the market to fit our needs today.”

    About The Timken Company

    The Timken Company keeps the world turning, with innovative friction management and power transmission products and services, enabling our customers’ machinery to perform more efficiently and reliably. With sales of $3.1 billion in 2009 and operations in 26 countries, Timken is Where You Turn™ for better performance.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    MSV Metal Studénka solves increasing complexity by application of APS Technologies

    MSV Metal Studénka, a.s., manufacturer of drop forgings and subassemblies for the railway industry significantly reinforced and modernized its production capacities at the turn of 2008 and 2009. Big investment in the production devices however induces changes that increase the complexity of management of order processing procedure. In order to ensure optimum use of the new capacities the company decided to implement concurrently with the investments in the production equipment also the advanced planning project (APS). The partner for implementing the project has on the basis of tender win become the LOGIS company.

    Studénka, 1/6/2009

    The company MSV Metal Studénka, a.s. is a direct successor of Vagonka Studénka, which was established in 1900. Today, MSV is a leading European manufacturer supplying drop forgings, pressed pieces and subassemblies for railway and other industries. MSV Metal Studénka a.s. is a member of International Railway Systems S.A. seated in Luxembourg. Ing. Jaroslav Zajíc, CSc., the managing director and member of the Board of Directors comments on the advanced planning project as follows: “In several recent months we have been investing significant means in the extension of production capacities of the company. A series of operations we used to carry out in cooperation will now be realized by our own forces. The extension of production however brings about greater demands for its management and planning. Efficient coordination of the entire spectrum of production capacities of our company represents a very extensive task. We know that it will be the quality of production that will decide on how efficiently we can use the new equipment. In the interest of maximum evaluation of our investment we therefore decided to reinforce current system of management of the company by application of advanced planning system (APS). We expect it to increase the reliability of supplies to our customers as well as to return rapidly the investment into the production equipment. We decided to issue a tender for supply of the advanced planning system. We did it in spite of the fact that we were very satisfied with the products and services of LOGIS company that delivered the existing ERP information system to us. LOGIS is nowadays undoubtedly one of the most important suppliers of APS systems in the Czech Republic. We were however very well aware of the fact that the ERP and APS systems are completely different and that the positive experience obtained with the supplier of one tool do not necessarily have to predetermine his abilities to be a supplier of a different tool with the same quality. We were getting to know from other suppliers furthermore repeatedly that the APS solution of LOGIS company is top class, but too expensive. The result of our tender however proved that the i2 APS system by LOGIS is really the best solution, and, in the meantime, not the most expensive one. A series of suppliers was suggesting us in the course of tender proceedings to replace our existing ERP system with another one with the aim to improve the planning function. We refused this way in the very beginning though. We are satisfied with the existing ERP system FACTORY ES. The functions provided by this system in the area of corporate administration suit our needs. Based on the experience of other companies we also know that the replacement of ERP system in the area of planning and management does not lead to any remarkable improvements. The LOGIS company won the tender proceedings not only because of the extraordinarily efficient technology at favourable price, but also the quality of consulting services. The LOGIS specialists convinced us in the course of the tender not only with their knowledge of handling of the functional logic of the newly offered product, but also with their professional attitude to the analysis of the initial process of planning and concrete proposals for its improvement. Important role was played also by the fact that LOGIS is probably the only supplier in the entire central and eastern Europe specializing for a long time in the area of planning of order processing in the production enterprises and has been realizing most of its projects right in this area. LOGIS is also able to apply its solutions not only on the domestic market, but also abroad, and develops some specific solution components on its own. And this was also very important for our company, which is a member of an international group of companies IRS Group. Jaroslav Zajíc adds the following to the procedure and results of the project: “Professional approach of the LOGIS consultants and good orientation in the issues of management and planning of the production process they proved in the tender, was accompanying the entire system implementation. LOGIS was achieving above-standard results in this regard also in the past. This time it was no different. The biggest surprise for me however was the big progress in the project management methodology. Compared to the ERP system implementation LOGIS carried out more than ten years ago, we knew the schedule of the project up to the level of the individual activities, rights and duties of both contracting parties as well the detailed description of solution of above-standard situations already since the moment of signing of the contract. Thanks to the new management methodology the project was running smoothly and the goals were achieved. Now we can plan and management the production much more efficiently. We can specify the terms of order processing much more precisely and manage the stock of material and semi-finished products with much better overview and with higher precision degree. I expect these improvements to manifest soon also in the quantifiable parameters of the efficiency of the enterprise like the stock rotation, delivery performance or the length of transit production time.” The executive director of LOGIS Ing. Tomáš Vojtík comments on the project progress as follows: If we abstract from the requirements for technical solution of the project, we can state that the key factors of success of the project focused on the change of processes undoubtedly include the work of the project team and management support. It was a pleasure for me to participate in regular control days in the course of implementation. We could see how successfully the project team was coping with the pitfalls of the implementation like for example the tasks for data preparation, creation of planning model with regard to the bottlenecks of the MSV production process and change of long-time patterns in their routing activities. I am glad that our methodology and approach to implementation were accepted by the project team and management of MSV and used as a means to achieve the project goal.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    LOGIS Has Named Michael J. Hilbrich Vice President of Metals

    LOGIS today announced that Michael J. Hilbrich has been named vice president of metals.

    Frenštát p.R., 23/4/2009

    As LOGIS’s Vice President of Metals, Michael Hilbrich is responsible for managing LOGIS’s global business activities focused on improving the efficiency of metal producing companies. His first task is the building-up of the partner network and the development of direct sales. “We appreciate, that Michael has decided to spend the next chapter of his career with us,” said LOGIS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dalibor Konvička. “His breadth of knowledge in all areas of planning, scheduling and management of metals companies make him a strong addition to our executive leadership team.” “I am proud to join a fine company like LOGIS,“ said Michael Hilbrich. „Having worked with LOGIS people for a number of years, I know that they are totally focused on helping Customers achieve sustainable supply chain results. The LOGIS Caster Scheduler product is excellent, and provides a great opportunity to expand the LOGIS brand to the worldwide Metals community.” Michael Hilbrich has worked in the Metals Industry for twenty-five years; fourteen years at Inland Steel where he headed the Planning Department, and eleven years at i2 Technologies as Vice President, Metals.

    PAPCEL commenced the APS implementation project

    The company PAPCEL, a.s., a traditional Czech manufacturer of paper-making machines and technological equipment, has decided to enhance efficiency of its management system. During the upcoming half year, advanced planning technologies (APS) will be deployed in this company. Company LOGIS have become the implementation partner of this project. The i2 Factory Planner system will be implemented during the project.

    Litovel, 1/7/2008

    of PAPCEL production is designed for export. On May 15, 2008, the company PAPCEL initiated the APS implementation project of i2 Factory Planner system. The project will take place in three implementation phases in total duration of 7 months. Ing. David Dostál, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PAPCEL, quotes the following concerning the project: „PAPCEL is a fast growing company – we have doubled our sales in the last three years and we do not want to be down-to-earth with our future goals. We feel an increased interest in our products. However, production capacity of our business remain the same, which is why it is more and more complicated to maintain economic effectiveness, as well as promptness, reliability and flexibility in fulfillment of our orders. The PAPCEL orders are characterized in their high complexity, low repeatability and high proportion of creative work. Therefore, managing the realization of such orders is very demanding. You need more than just a pencil and paper or usual software tools for these purposes. Available resources of our company must be utilized to the maximum extent, which is why we shall deploy highly efficient advanced planning technologies. Deployment of such technologies is not a trivial matter. We shall change business processes, our people will have to handle new management tools. However, we are sure that the enhanced performance of the business management system is a precondition of the maximum leverage on our business opportunities. It is a necessary condition of our success.“ Ing. Ivan Dzido, Executive Director of PAPCEL, adds: „A couple of years ago we were sure that the way to resolve problems was clear – we would select some modern ERP system, and achieve needed results through the system implementation. We shall gain control of the main company process and learn to manage it effectively. This will then result in stock savings, higher production throughput, short and reliable delivery terms. We carried out the selection of ERP supplier, when we participated in the Inspiration conference, where a number of contributions were shown, in which Czech business representatives informed about results achieved by improved performance of their business management systems through advanced planning technologies deployed. All the projects presented have been supplied by LOGIS who is specialized in these problems. The conference became a real inspiration to us. We could compare results of communication with both ERP and APS systems customers and suppliers and we came to the conclusion that the high-performance planning system of APS class was definitely able to increase value to our business. We have chosen LOGIS as an implementation partner. We were made familiar with results of a number of projects of this company, which implements advanced planning technologies at their customers in order to improve delivery capabilities and operating effectiveness. We have to state that we have not found another supplier who would be able to present similar results of their projects nor similar understanding of our needs. Our decision for LOGIS was unambiguous.“ Ing. Dalibor Konvička, General Director of LOGIS company, says to the project the following: „Our new client shows high commitment to change their business, determination to improve the performance of the main business process to the level comparable with leading world authorities in the field. At the same time, it is clear to them that that they have to cope with a number of changes and overcome many obstacles to be successful. We believe that our planning technologies, know-how and rich experience with successful tuning of performance of the main business process in different companies will help PAPCEL achieve their goals.

    About PAPCEL

    he joint-stock company PAPCEL, a.s. has been manufacturing machines and technological equipment for paper-making industry, mainly for complete lines of paper machines and stock preparation plant, for nearly 60 years. Company provides on-order products, repairs, renovations, reengineering of production units and entire technologies. Spare parts and complete after-sales services are ensured for the equipment supplied. An overwhelming majority of PAPCEL production is designed for export. Nearly 300 employees participate in project realization. They have available all needed pre-production departments, technical and technological development, engineering, design, testing room, servicing and namely manufacturing premises and assembly halls with all technical equipment for the machine engineering production required. In it’s history, the company have supplied more than 70 new or reengineered paper-making lines. In the period 2004-2006, more than 35 stock preparation lines have been commissioned just in the Eastern Europe territory.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    BONATRANS enhance their operating effectiveness

    BONATRANS GROUP a.s., the largest European producer of rail wheels and wheel sets, will deploy the Advanced Planning and Scheduling technologies (APS) to increase their job realization process throughput and use their market opportunities even better. The i2 Factory Planner system from i2 Technologies will be implemented by LOGIS company in the course of 2008.

    Bohumín, 17/4/2008.

    Peak APS system to increase main business process performance

    BONATRANS GROUP a.s., is the greatest European manufacturer of rail wheels and wheel sets. BONATRANS GROUP a.s. export an overwhelming majority of their products to more than 70 world countries. Bonatrans are systematically working on the ability to supply high-quality production is continuously growing volumes. Indeed, these efforts require investments in manufacturing capacities and control system. Currently, the implementation of the Advanced Planning and Scheduling represents the most significant investment focused on improvement of the management system efficiency. Ing. Pavel Lazar, MBA, General Director and member of the Board of Directors of BONATRANS GROUP a.s. comments this intent as follows: „The main goal of this project is enhanced production throughput. This means that we want to be able to make even more production volumes than so far using the same resources. This will only be possible if we substantially increase the efficiency of our management system. However, the potential of our existing management system tools have already been exhausted. Therefore, we are purchasing the APS system enabling us to compile high-quality plans. Thanks to them we shall then we able with higher accuracy and effectiveness to coordinate our activities associated with job-order realization. We pursue success with high level of commitment and we do not admit we might not achieve our goal. Our supplier selection criteria were also subject to this. Who aims as high as us must not leave anything to chance – he/she must work with the best, cannot afford an average. The results achieved by LOGIS when implementing the APS systems from i2 Technologies production and extraordinary and are unparalleled in our region. Our choice is clear.“ „We are glad we have an opportunity to work with someone so committed and remarkably growth-focused“, says Ing. Dalibor Konvička, Chief Executive Officer of LOGIS company. „We can show a remarkable extent of tenacity too. And because teams tuned in this way will have state-of-the-art technologies available and will be able to use decades of our experience with APS technology implementations, we do not admit other result than success. I believe Bonatrans will become one of our clients who have managed to make best profit from APS technologies.“

    About BONATRANS GROUP

    BONATRANS GROUP a.s., is a modern and prosperous corporation, being the greatest European manufacturer of rail wheels and wheel sets. BONATRANS GROUP a.s. export an overwhelming majority of their products to more than 70 world countries.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Implementation of APS in company MEDIN

    MEDIN, a.s. a traditional Czech manufacturer of medical instruments decided to support the efficiency of its management system by use of advanced planning technologies (APS). The implementation partner of this project is company LOGIS. During the project, whose completion is planned to the end of this years, will be implemented the APS system i2 Factory Planner.

    Nové Město na Moravě, 15/4/2008

    Velocity, reliability and flexibility in supplies of medical instruments

    On 15th April 2008 the MEDIN company started the project of the APS system i2 Factory Planner implementation. The project will be implemented in three stages with total duration of 7 months. Mr. Vladislav Ostrejš, MBA, the managing director of the plant states the following to the reasons of the project implementation: “MEDIN is generally known by high quality of its products. Furthermore we want to offer to our customers also high quality services, especially shorter delivery terms with higher time-reliability of supplies. We would like to effectuate nearly all the supplies that we provide on the order basis already within 2 days from ordering date. Our goal in deliveries of contractually agreed supplies is 100% fulfilment, with possible delay just in a completely extraordinary situation. In order to be able to achieve these goals we decided to invest into the development of our management system which will be this year enhanced by an advanced planning system. However, the increased customer satisfaction is not the only goal, for which we have decided to invest into the advanced planning project. Another area, in which we feel the opportunity, is the improvement of operational efficiency of our company. Above all, we are interested in the increase of throughput, where our objective is the throughput increase 10% achieved with the presently existing company resources. In selection process of supplier and solution we decided for LOGIS, which has more than ten-year experience with the implementation of the top APS solutions from i2 Technologies Inc. The results of projects implemented by LOGIS in a series of Czech manufacturing plants or abroad are remarkable. We believe that also in our company LOGIS will succeed in achieving of effects that will contribute to the growth of our competitive strength.” “Practically in every field of production the manufacturers are exposed to still more demanding requirements of their customers” says Mr. Dalibor Konvička, managing director of LOGIS and continues: “Especially the requirements for velocity, due date performance and reliability of supplies increase. However, the price paid for better service to customers must not afflict the economic results of the company. Still, the overwhelming majority of producers can not achieve such goal without substantial increase of the efficiency of their management system. In recent years the advanced planning technologies are applied more often to increase the efficiency of management, to manage the growing complexity and dynamics of order fulfilment. We are pleased that the MEDIN has joined the enterprises, for which our technology and know-how represent an opportunity for future development of the enterprise.”

    About MEDIN

    MEDIN, a.s. is a traditional Czech manufacturer of medical instruments. Decisive share of production and sales form the tools for stomatology, special surgery, traumatological implants and total joint protheses. The main goal of the company is to become a modern European company operating on the global market, able to foresee the needs of its customers and adapt to them by the continuously improving system of the services provided.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    SLOVENSKÉ ENERGETICKÉ STROJÁRNE apply APS technologies to manage growth opportunities

    The engineering company SLOVENSKÉ ENERGETICKÉ STROJÁRNE a.s. (SES a.s.), member of J&T group, faces considerable opportunities of order volume growth. The precondition for good management of these opportunities however consists in ensurance of higher quality of the management of order execution process. In order to ensure this requirement, advanced planning tools by i2 Technologies will be applied. The implementation partner of the project is the LOGIS Company.

    Tlmače, 4/10/2007

    SES a.s. with more than two thousand employees belongs to significant global suppliers of boilers for power plants, heat plants and incineration plants. Since 2006 it has been a part of consolidated entity titled J&T. The J&T group is an influential figure in the area of investments in the Czech and Slovak industrial businesses with central focus on power engineering and machinery. Extraordinary boom in the area of power engineering constitutes a good precondition for meeting one of the strategic goals of the company – to become the most important boiler-manufacturing company in Central Europe. Billion contracts concluded this year and last year realized for example in Chile, Brazil or Turkey almost doubled the revenues achieved in 2006 already during the following two years (from 3.6 billion SKK to a level of 7.5 billion. SKK in 2008). This rapid growth of sales brings about not only the radial increase of volume of production in the parent plant in Tlmače, but will also require reopening of the facility in adjacent Želiezovce, where up to 200 people should be gradually able to find employment. Another side-effect of the rapid growth of the company is the substantial increase of the scope of cooperation regarding especially the non-pressure components and also the increase of volume of purchased material. More complicated manufacturing logistics together with the customer requirements for shortening of delivery lead times impose much higher demands for tools used for support of production management and planning. Managing director of the SES a.s. Company and Ing. Martin Paštika, MBA describes the management expectations as follows: “ We could say in a single sentence that the main objective of the i2 Factory Planner tool implementation consists in essential improvement in quality of the production management. We are interested especially in the throughput improvement, as it could become a critical barrier in our way towards radical increase of turnover. Another important parameter we will monitor is the suppliers’ reliability, because this indicator in our field of expertise is extremely accentuated and the failure to meet deadlines has significant effect on the resulting price of delivery. Qualitative improvement in the area of production management should affect also the duration of production lead times and thus the inventory turnover. In terms of our business activities we acquire a tool that will provide us with important information about term possibilities of production for new businesses in link to actual utilization of capacities.” Supplier selection criteria are summarized by Ing. Jiří Paštika, MBA, financial manager of SES a.s.: “As we want to rank among the best world manufacturers in this field of expertise, we want the same also from our suppliers. Therefore our first requirement was to verify the function of the product on global scale – the product of the American company i2 Technologies complies with this condition completely. After all, their customers include companies like General Electric, Caterpillar, Honeywell and many others. Another condition of ours, direct support in the Czech and Slovak Republic, has also been complied with here – the supplier of this project, LOGIS, has been providing it for already ten years. Two reference visits in the businesses in the identical industrial enterprise of similar size and volume of production, which LOGIS, as the only one from the applicants was able to arrange for, in fact decided on the winner of tender proceedings. Furthermore the selected supplier meets the important criterion of acceptable ratio between the price and expected revenues. The approach of the supplier during the entire tender was highly professional.” “Planning functions of classic ERP type business information systems of even the biggest world producers by no means meet the requirements of the SES Company for complex and concurrently flexible system of planning and control of customized production”, as added by Mgr. Jakub Nosek, MBA, Managing Director of Atwave Consulting Company, which was encharged by the SES Company management with the organization of tender for supplier of production control and planning system. “Right in the beginning we also rejected the use of crutches like sophisticated macros in MS Excel, which can be used for management of a simple series production and only with many limits. After a profound analysis we came to a conclusion that the existing corporate information system includes a quality database, which can be used for application of sophisticated planning tool from APS category (Advanced Planning and Scheduling). Therefore we approached the biggest global figures in the area of APS, which operate on the Czech or the Slovak markets including the leader of this category in the Central and Easter European region, the LOGIS Company, supplying tools by i2 Technologies. After the initial presentations of the companies we had a heavy head as all of them were promising an elegant and simple solution. However, already the second round consisting in reference visits has shown a clear picture of the abilities and experience of the individual implementation companies. Except for LOGIS, which offered us two visits in companies with similar production characteristics, all of the applicants had problems to present any functional reference in a company, whose production would, though only partially, correspond to the production of SES, a.s. The validity of selection of the LOGIS company as the supplier of the APS project was also confirmed by prime pre-implementation study. This is how the Atwave Consulting Company managing director recapitulates the tender proceeding. Ing. Tomáš Vojtík, the executive director of LOGIS makes the following remark regarding the tender proceedings: “The entire process of selection was fast and transparent, as well as the contract negotiations. We appreciate the ability of our client to focus on important matters and not to scatter the energy by compiling and evaluating complicated questionnaires focused on detailed functionality of software, questionnaires that make an impression of conscientiousness and respectability in selection, but which often attempt to compare the incomparable and in which the view of those matters decisive for the resulting value of the project is usually lost. Our specialists will be operating intensively in the SES Company for a period of 10 months with the aim to create, after the completion of the project divided in three stages, premises for shortening of production lead time and significant improvement of timing reliability of deliveries. The contract that has just been signed covers also our support in further 18 months after the completion of the implementation project. The consulting in the prearranged extent will thus be focused on the use of the outlined expectations for improvement of the aforesaid output parameters of the SES Company.”

    About SLOVENSKÉ ENERGETICKÉ STROJÁRNE

    lovenské energetické strojárne, joint stock company (SES a.s.) is an engineering company with more than 55 year history and belongs to significant suppliers of boilers for power plants, heat plants and incineration plants on the global market. SES a.s. manufactures and supplies steam boilers for combustion of coal, oil, gas and biomass and other devices that meet the most demanding requirements for environmental protection with achieving high efficiency and long-term serviceability. The company provides for complex system of services in power engineering: development, designing, production, assembly, start-up, operator training and service.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Prestigious honors of project APS in Třinecké železárny

    Project „Advanced Planning of Metallurgic Production in TRINECKE ZELEZARNY a.s.“ became, as the only one project of Europe, a Laureate of prestigious THE COMPUTERWORLD HONORS PROGRAM in category “Manufacturing” for the year 2007. General supplier was company IBM. Subdelivery of implementation was realized by company LOGIS that applied, besides the software of i2 Technologies, also its own information technology.

    Třinec, 9/7/2007

    The Computerworld Honors Program is governed by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation (a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation.). Each year, members of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen’s Committee, a group of 100 Chairmen / CEOs from leading global IT companies, submit nominations for organizations they feel demonstrated extraordinary use of information technology in 10 distinct categories of industry-related endeavor. The Chairmen’s Committee identify the organizations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision and the significance of its benefit to society. On June 4, 2007, the Laureates Class of 2007 were honored in Medal Ceremonies at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington D.C. As the only one project from Europe, the project Advanced planning of metallurgic production in Trinecke zelezarny a.s. became a laureate in category Manufacturing. It was especially appreciated an unprecendented mastering of project objectives with regard to exceptional complexity of the dynamic environment of metal manufacturing. Ing Jiří Cienciala, CEO and Chairman of Board of Třinecké železárny, says: „We highly appreciate the achieved success. The awarded honors is a proof that Třinecké železárny is one of the world leading companies in steel manufacturing management. Now we can use the reached high degree of operational excellence not only for reduction of costs, but as well for the improvement of our customer satisfaction – reduction of delivery dates, further improvement of due delivery performance and better flexibility of demand response“.

    About TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY

    Třinecké železárny, company tradition since 1839, is an integrated steelmaking company producing long rolled products. With more than 5520 employees is the largest producer of long rolled products in the Czech Republic and is part of leaders’ producers in Europe. Production portfolio comprises wire rod, railway rails, special bars, rebars, wide steel, seamless tubes and various profiles. A year production volume is 2,4 mil. ton, which presents approximately 31 billions CZK. TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY and logo TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY are registered trade marks of the company TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY, a.s.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    The project of APS implementation in Třinecké železárny honored as IT Project 2006

    The project of implementation of advanced planning and scheduling of metallurgical production in the company TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY realized by LOGIS was honored as IT Project of year 2006.

    Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, 5/3/2007

    Every year, CACIO – Czech Association of IT managers, group of the top IT leaders in information technology, seeks, judges and expertly appreciates the best IT projects realized in Czech Republic. This year, in whole 22 projects participated in the contest. The evaluation committee recommended eight of them to the second round of this national competition. The final competition results were announced on 27th of February 2007 during a dancing social gatherings „Taneční polepšovna CACIO“ in exclusive premises of Žofín Palace, Prague. As the winner in category IT project for the year 2006 was elected The project of APS implementation for metallurgical production in the company TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY. This project, realized by company LOGIS, took 18 months. During this time were implemented the following functional systems: Advanced planning of metallurgical production for steel plants, rolling mills, finishing and expedition, Allocation of available material and semi-finished material in the whole production process and Detail scheduling for the steel plant. Above mentioned modules and the current ERP system (SAP) have been completely integrated. Besides the above mentioned award, the project was nominated to the world competition „The Computerworld Honours Program“. The nomination abstract declares that the achievements are really unique across the Europe. The LOGIS hereby thanks to the whole team of Třinecké železárny for an excellent cooperation in the realization of the project. Without such an exceptional effort the project would not be successfully realized. Acknowledgments belong as well to LOGIS partners – i2 Technologies and IBM.

    About TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY

    Třinecké železárny, company tradition since 1839, is an integrated steelmaking company producing long rolled products. With more than 5520 employees is the largest producer of long rolled products in the Czech Republic and is part of leaders’ producers in Europe. Production portfolio comprises wire rod, railway rails, special bars, rebars, wide steel, seamless tubes and various profiles. A year production volume is 2,4 mil. ton, which presents approximately 31 billions CZK. TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY and logo TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY are registered trade marks of the company TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY, a.s.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    WALTER ENGINES is tuning execution of the process of fulfilling orders with LOGIS

    The WALTER ENGINES company, a traditional manufacturer of aircraft engines, has launched a project with the objective of increasing the reliability of deliveries and increasing production flow. This purpose will be fulfilled by means of a qualitative change in the process of planning and managing production using the i2 Factory planner advanced planning system from i2 Technologies. The partner during the realization of this project is the LOGIS company.

    Prague, 21/4/2006

    The WALTER ENGINES company is a traditional manufacturer of aircraft engines and their components. Its clients include Rolls-Royce, SNECMA and Turboméca. In the field of the aviation industry in which WALTER ENGINES operates, demands for quality, delivery reliability, reducing deadlines for delivery and overall flexibility of reactions to changing conditions, are increasing continuously. This fact has led the management of WALTER ENGINES to decide on a fundamental change in the process of planning and management. In connection with this Václav Havlan, the financial director of WALTER ENGINES, says, “Our company has undergone a number of changes in recent years, with one objective – reinforcing our own competitive abilities. We are one of the world leaders with regard to the quality of our production. We will also learn how to be a faster, more reliable and flexible supplier; this will open the door to further growth. We now know what activities we will be able to develop and this does not concern an intention of growth expressed simply in percentage units. From this, we derive the significance of our project, this also determined our approach to the selection of a supplier and solution. The i2 Factory Planner from i2 Technologies is certainly an excellent product, but the experience and abilities of experts from LOGIS in the sphere of advanced planning truly have no competition here. These abilities don’t end with knowledge of the APS system; indeed we consider excellent knowledge of their own product a matter of course. We particularly appreciate how LOGIS manages to combine the company targets of its clients with the services and technologies that it provides and the consummate ease with which it orientates itself in specific company situations. We devoted more time to the performance of a selection procedure than we originally intended. However, we managed to use the time well and some of our ideas had time to mature. For example, our original idea that the most suitable supplier of an APS system would be the one who is our ERP supplier, came to nothing. Because the chief value lies not so much in the product but in the ability of your supplier to achieve the best result.” Production at WALTER ENGINES is divided into three areas: manufacture of aircraft engines, general repairs of aircraft engines and manufacture of components for the aviation industry. A great number of demands for manufacture and assembly of components, deliveries of materials from sub-contractors or components from cooperating companies, continuously arise in all these areas. All inputs must then be prepared at the correct time for assembly or shipping. But the matter doesn’t end with managing the coordination of production activities. Production is only part of the logistics chain. The activities of purchase and sales are directly connected to production. In all these areas small and larger surprises continuously occur: the client changes the requirements, the sub-delivery from the supplier is available at a different time than we originally assumed, or a problem occurs in production. Even though the situation changes constantly, the speed and reliability of deliveries remains one of the primary customer requirements. In WALTER ENGINES much better management of these situations than previously is the priority. The objective is to react to each change in situation by quickly finding the best solution, which is expressed by an updated plan. A plan that will be executed quickly, a plan that will enable us to continuously manage unexpected circumstances and to make the most of the situation. “Of course we plan production in the Walter factory, even today and without APS,” says Petr Kocián, manager of logistics at WALTER ENGINES, continuing, “To keep up with the requirements of our clients, we have been using planning functions based on the traditional concept of MRPII for a number of years and we have gradually perfected these with our own upgrades, such as output groups, programs in Excel, etc. However, while using these we encounter problems more and more frequently with the preciseness of the plan, the ability to react quickly to changes or the fact that the plan is very time consuming to maintain. We were frequently disappointed when we found a solution after much hard work and it was then shown that we had caused a much greater problem in another area. Problems that were caused, in the interests of fulfilling our obligations, by the need for dispatch or, if you like urgent management, consisting frequently of extinguishing a fire or in shooting from the hip. Only the minimum of time and energy remain for any other systematic improvement of our output, for example reducing delivery deadlines, greater flexibility of reactions to the customers’ demands or better coordination of deliveries. Consequently, we decided on a fundamental step – a change in the process of planning production using instruments for advanced production planning. We know that this change won’t be easy, from the technical aspect and the human aspect. We’ll be changing not only traditional work procedures and habits, but we’ll also show our cards with information that we need for management, but which is difficult to acquire today, to people.” The project team has a demanding task before it – to prepare technical conditions, train people and realize a change in the planning process within the whole sales–production–purchase chain within six months. “In spite of the fact that today WALTER ENGINES is markedly more advanced than most companies using traditional ERP systems in its ability to manage production, we’re convinced that the prepared change will require significant dedication from all members of the team,” commented Vladimír Seibert, executive director of the LOGIS company. “Over the course of time we’ve become closely acquainted with the people from WALTER ENGINES. We’ve encountered the management here, which understands that a change is something that will provide the company with the opportunity for further development, which does not see a risk to its own positions in the change and particularly, which is capable of timing and realizing the change correctly. In my opinion, this standpoint is a very good condition for the success of the project that has just been launched. A project that LOGIS, the same as WALTER ENGINES, approaches with maximum responsibility and dedication.”

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    ŽĎAS will be using an advanced production planning and scheduling system from IBM, LOGIS and i2 Technologies

    At the beginning of this year the project for the implementation of an advanced production planning and scheduling system commenced in the engineering–metallurgical complex of ŽĎAS, a.s., with registered office in Žďár nad Sázavou. IBM Czech Republic and its alliance partner, LOGIS are the suppliers of this project. The implemented product is the i2 Factory planner from i2 Technologies. The objective of the project is in particular to improve the performance of production and logistics parameters, which includes not only reduction of the continuous time necessary for production and increasing the reliability of fulfilment of the production plan, but also reduction of the volume of stores of incomplete production and materials. In addition to this the improvement in deliveries to the customer and in the economic parameters of production, such as evaluation of the production plan and the planned business cases, will also be manifested positively.

    Žďár nad Sázavou, 5/4/2006

    Qualitative improvement of the production planning and management process is the purpose of the contract that was signed with ŽĎAS, a.s. (ŽĎAS) following thorough preparation at the end of last year. The suppliers of the project, with the working title of the “APS Project” are IBM Czech Republic and LOGIS, which operate on the Czech market in the sphere of APS/SCM as alliance partners. The i2 Factory planner product from i2 Technologies is the implemented product. “ŽĎAS has been profiling itself as a customer-orientated company for some time now,” said managing director Ing. Miroslav Šabart, continuing, “In today’s highly competitive environment this is a condition for success. Even though we’ve been achieving significant improvements in this field in recent years, which apart from anything else have also been reflected positively in our economic management results, reserves still exist. One of the areas where we see opportunities for improvement is better coordination throughout the entire supplier-customer chain, starting with purchase and ending with sales. This is why we’ve decided on a project of advanced production planning (APS Project). We’ve chosen IBM and LOGIS, who offered a state-of-the-art solution tested in many projects abroad and at home, as partners for its realization.” According to Ing. Vladko Šlezinger, Industry leader, IBM Business Consulting Services, by combining the global strength and expertise of IBM in the sphere of SCM and implementation of information systems with state-of-the-art technologies from i2 Technologies and the abilities of LOGIS in successfully realizing APS/SCM projects, ŽĎAS will gain the opportunity to adopt the best business procedures (so-called best practices), know-how and advanced information technology available in the Central European locality. Thanks to this, it will be capable of reacting to changes in the situation more sensitively by quickly finding the optimal solution and will learn to achieve higher speeds, reliability and flexibility with reduced costs. “A healthily developing company is aware that without continuous pressure on the improvement of customer services and its own operating perfection, future success on ever more demanding markets is hard to imagine,” said Ing. Vladimír Seibert, executive director of LOGIS. He added, “In this project we have demanding targets before us, such as increasing the reliability of the fulfilment of plans, reducing the continuous time necessary for production or reducing the volume of stores. To achieve these targets it’s essential that we build a realization team that will be able to manage not only the technical aspect of implementation of the APS system, but also – in the first place – the management of changes connected to the new company planning process. For this reason, we released specialists to the project team, who have experience from successful projects in a number of engineering companies here and abroad.” Ing. Igor Kliment, assistant to the production director and coordinator of the APS project on the part of ŽĎAS, adds, “We really devoted a lot of attention to the preparation of the project team on our part. Because the project will affect a number of activities, which have been going on in our company without change for many years, we had to take into account not only the expertise of the individual members but also their ability to accept and enforce the change, while putting together the team. I believe that we’ve managed to put together the team so that it will truly fulfil the demanding tasks provided by the project.” Thorough preparation preceded the launch of the project. A number of meetings took place at the level of specialists on both sides, the objective of which was to evaluate the suitability of the proposed solution and to assess the consequences of introducing it in the conditions of the ŽĎAS company. In connection with this, Ing. Libor Šlechta, project supervisor of IBM, says, “From the very beginning ŽĎAS has approached the project very responsibly. We soon agreed that the APS project was not primarily an information project, but that by its scope and the complexity of the connected changes it passes through all the decisive divisions of the company. Thanks to this, key users – representatives of the specialist division – entered the game and first acquainted themselves with the experience from application of the proposed solution in similar manufacturing companies and then, together with the supplier’s specialists, they worked up a proposal for the process of realization of a business case using APS and evaluated its effects. Only then did we start further meetings, which concluded with the signing of the contract. The responsible approach that ŽĎAS took within the scope of preparation of the project guarantees good cooperation during its realization.” The project in ŽĎAS is divided into two independent phases. The first is focused on the sphere of engineering production. In the second phase, expansion of APS functionality into the metallurgical production section will occur. “A long-term Unification project is taking place in our company in the IT division, the objective of which includes the technological and functional renewal of our information system. APS is becoming one of the key components integrated into the ŽĎAS company information system. Coordination with the Unification project has influenced the definition of the extent of the individual APS project phases and its overall period of duration. I believe that within the scope of the APS project, together with our partners, we’ll manage to establish not only a system on a high technological level, but also an instrument with which we will more effectively use the data riches stored in our company information system to the benefit of our company,” said Ing. Pavel Kantor, manager of the informatics department of ŽĎAS.

    About ŽĎAS

    ŽĎAS, a.s. is involved in the manufacture of rolling mill equipment, shaping machinery and instruments, hydraulic elements, reconstruction and modernisation of machinery and supplies of ingots, castings and freely forged pieces. The most important customers of ŽĎAS include VOLKSWAGEN, VOEST ALPINE, Škoda Auto, Třínecke železárny, HAYES LEMMERZ AUTOKOLA and many other domestic and foreign clients. The company’s mission is to manufacture and supply products and semi-finished products of a high utility value, in the required quality and to provide the corresponding services and to adhere to the corresponding safety and environmental regulations.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    VOP-026 Šternberk, s.p. implements a system of advanced planning

    VOP-026 Šternberk, s.p., a leading Czech military repair plant have concluded the Agreement on Supply and Implementation of system i2 Factory Planner for advanced planning of production with the LOGIS company.

    Šternberk, 22/12/2005

    VOP-026 Šternberk, s.p. (VOP-026), a leading Czech military repair plant have concluded the Agreement on Supply and Implementation of system for advanced planning of production (APS) with the LOGIS company. During the eight-month project, the i2 Factory Planner system from i2 Technologies will be implemented. Šternberk VOP-026, a traditional service centre of military armoured wheeled vehicles was one of the few Czech military repair plants that was able to cope with the radical change of the situation in the Czech army related to significant reduction of the army vehicle fleet. The decline in the volume of military orders was successfully compensated in the past by obtaining orders from the civil sector. At present, the main customers include producers of construction machinery – FERMEC (Great Britain) and SCHAEFF (Germany) – members of the TEREX Corporation supranational group. The performance of orders from the civil sector is ensured by an independent engineering division, for which the system of advanced planning of production i2 Factory Planner is primarily used. Ing. Martin Smolka, Financial Manager of VOP-026, comments on the decision to implement the system of advanced planning: “The fact that VOP-026 is a state enterprise does not limit our attempt to succeed in the present highly competitive environment. The need to be a faster and more reliable partner for our clients and, on the other hand, the low transparency of the present situation in production, the ever-changing requirements of clients and the inability to make new plans while revealing the impacts of the new plans on all orders, made us think of a radical change of the planning system and production management in the engineering division of the company.” Ing. Antonín Kratochvíl, Deputy Director of the Company describes the course of the bidding procedure: “In the first round of the bidding procedure we were assessing fifteen bids, six bidders were allowed to proceed to the second round, after presentations and reference visits we selected the two favourites, whose task was to prepare a pre-implementation study and demonstrate their readiness to manage the whole project in the proper manner. To tell the truth, it was only the final round of the bidding procedure that persuaded us that it was LOGIS that would provide the best chances for success. At the beginning we knew that LOGIS was a leader in the field, but we considered their solution to be excess luxury. It was the same as purchasing company cars from Rolls-Royce, so why not act in a similar way in the selection of the supplier for the APS project? At first it looked like most of the bids were similar, so we preferred the seemingly ‘golden mean’. “Only in the other phases of the bidding procedure, when we went deeper into the fundaments of the bids, did we discover that in this case the similarity to cars is incorrect. Even if you buy a car of the highest class, it will take you to your destination with similar reliability to a medium-class car, for which you pay much less money. Both cars will be safe, they will have everything important for the car to work properly. There is no such analogy for the APS systems. We came to the conclusion that in close inspection you can find out that many of the offered APS promise low consumption and high performance, but in fact they lack some important things – sometimes a steering wheel, sometimes even the motor. “And if I stick to this car analogy, in the world of cars you can expect that in almost all driving schools they will teach you well how to drive. However, it’s not that simple with the APS systems. This is not only because top-quality knowledge of the APS system can be obtained from real experts, but also because APS is operated in a much more complicated environment than a road network. In addition to a very good knowledge of APS, experts also have to be capable of very good orientation in the company environment. However, this can become obvious only within the pre-implementation study. The study confirmed that LOGIS’ specialists are capable of the proper application of experience from many successful projects in engineering companies. In addition, we were surprised by their knowledge of the specific terminology of the repair field because we are consider extension of the utilization of APS into the division of Military Production in the next round. “VOP-026 is our first client from a state enterprise. I must confess that it was a nice surprise for us to see how professional the company’s approach was. This is not only about a thoroughly organized bidding procedure, consistent compliance with all the agreed terms and exemplary cooperation in preparation of the pre-implementation study – but also clear development objectives of the company, the emphasis on improvement of the main company process, concentration on increasing the speed and reliability of orders. This is the most important reason why we think there are great prerequisites for a good result of the whole project.” said the executive manager of the LOGIS company, Ing. Vladimír Seibert, adding: “It’s obvious that there’s a lot to do in the near future. Work connected to many significant and often radical changes in the company. We’re looking forward to it and we’re glad that we will be able to contribute to the development of such an interesting company as VOP-026 in Šternberk”.

    About VOP-026 Šternberk, s.p.

    The history of the company dates back to 1951 when, in a newly built production hall, the repairs of surface military technology for the needs of the Czechoslovak army were initiated. Since the 1960s, the company has specialized in repairs of wheel and crawler armoured personnel carriers and combat infantry vehicles; at the beginning of the new century it also took over repairs of engineer technology. The scope of repairs ranges from general repairs to on-the-spot repairs, including the provision of service to international missions. In addition to repairs, various technologies were modernized, or rebuilt to meet the needs of the army. In this way, many research, signal, headquarters and purpose vehicles on crawlers were created. In the past the scope of activity of the company was significantly extended with an organization measure of the establisher, by including three military technical institutes in Brno, Slavičín and Vyškov, A significant part of the capacities is now intended particularly for solving research and development tasks in the area of surface technology, research and observation systems, arms systems, ammunition, military chemistry, electronic research devices and material engineering. This includes creation of the operation and training documentation, teaching aids and equipment. In these areas, the company provides support to the Czech Army and to other clients, outputs of research and development capacities are often realized in the production plant of the company. In this area, the company is involved in international cooperation with research capacities of other countries and expert activity within NATO and EDA. A significant share in the turnover is occupied by the engineering production, where the company established a position as a reliable supplier of processed weldments for foreign clients. The company capacities were also extended in the area of testing, which enables continuous measurement, trials and testing of the research, development and production outputs in order to provide the clients with services and production in the adequate quality. Many company testing laboratories are accredited; the company holds a certificate of compliance of the quality management system with European standards. From a repair shop of salvage technology, the plant has been transformed to a company that is capable of satisfying clients’ needs using state-of-the-art technologies from research to servicing, to a company with highly qualified personnel with a positive attitude toward clients and their needs.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY Implement Advanced Planning and Scheduling System

    Co-operating with IBM Czech Republic and LOGIS, TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY, a.s. (TŽ) are busy pursuing a project involving supplies and implementation of advanced production planning and scheduling. Included in the project are advanced planning and scheduling technologies designed by i2 Technologies Inc. (i2) for metallurgical production. The project is scheduled to be completed by mid-2006 and it seeks to increase the competitiveness and profitability of TŽ.

    1/6/2005

    What is the goal of the project

    Improving comprehensive customer service by securing high operational excellence The sponsor of the project on behalf of TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY is Ing. Jan Lasota, Director for Production and Commerce, who had the following to say about the project: “We’re experiencing ever-growing pressure applied to steelmaking companies to provide their customers with high-quality products at still greater promptness, reliability and flexibility. What was enough yesterday, is on the verge of being too little today and will not suffice tomorrow. A great deal has been done in the department of quality enhancement and we have a lot to be proud of. Now, we’ve decided to concentrate more intensively on how the needs of our clients may be accommodated by providing them with attractive and reliable delivery dates. And it’s here that the company still leaves a lot to be desired. We can hardly expect to be prompt and reliable with regard to our customers without making promptitude and reliability the essential attributes upon which the corporate processes within the company rest. And what we must not forget in so doing is that improvement in this domain must be achieved with high efficiency—in other words, high speed, reliability and flexibility must not cost us ‘all the funds’. We must learn to achieve it at low costs. We know this is a formidably difficult task that, in a way, reminds me of the attempt of major automotive companies to develop engines displaying the highest possible power with the lowest possible consumption. Similarly, we have to fine tune our company-wide process of order fulfilment in a manner as to ensure that it yields high performance while keeping costs low. This is the goal of the project we’re about to launch. When implementing the project we won’t dispense with highly efficient management methods. Advanced planning methods will have a key role to play as well as the ability on our part to employ the technologies in the management system introduced at our plant. How much importance we ascribe to the project is clearly shown by our choice of the best available technologies and suppliers. We believe that the advanced planning project is an important step that will lead to further improvements in the competitiveness of our company.

    What the project seeks to improve

    Increasing management efficiency through high-quality planning Order performance is a rather complex and complicated process at our plant. A number of time-dependent effects and limitations factor in it. The existing management tools did not make it possible for us to reflect these limitations to the necessary extent when making decisions on what operations should be done at the individual workstations and when. Our existing tools did not possess the capacity to evaluate the state of affairs in a short time and determine the optimal procedure translated into a plan defining who shall do what and when. We were often forced to make decisions without having the opportunity to provide support for the decisions in the form of comprehensive and amply detailed evaluation of all factors, and, similarly, we were not always able to foresee the effects that the decision would have upon each of the links in the logistics chain. The solution will allow us to reveal pending threats in time and adopt measures to eliminate them. We’re convinced that a more precise and sensitive management resting upon optimised plans and schedules will help us to yield favourable conditions to achieve better operational results in performing our orders. As a result, we will be able to perform in a faster, more reliable manner while retaining a better overview of the process than is the case now.”

    What are the initial conditions?

    Tried and true solutions to yield top results “The attempt to improve the quality of production planning in our company is nowhere near to being new,” says Ing. Bohuslav Sikora, Manager of Planning Department, who was entrusted with the role of project co-ordinator. ”We’ve been dealing with APS for four years, since we launched our first project designed to improve production planning by introducing APS technologies. Although it was realised later that the implemented solution didn’t address our requirements, we were able to benefit from the project works. We arrived at a better understanding of our needs and got a better grasp of the APS issues. And this translated well into the tender we organised last year. One of the key parameters that served us in gauging the applicants was the rate of success they enjoyed while implementing projects of comparable magnitude in plants of comparable size. We visited the companies that implemented the projects with the applicants and strove to find out to what extent the project supported the monitored processes as well as the course that the projects took. The tender took a year to complete and culminated in signing a contract with IBM who, co-operating with LOGIS, was prepared to offer solutions that addressed our demanding requirements in terms of functionality, and worked well with metallurgical plants operating a similar production pattern. We feel that the time has come and assume that we’re heading into the project with an ace up our sleeve: our team is well prepared, the project is being taken care of by successful and strong suppliers and we are about to implement some top information technologies that have already performed well in our field of business.

    What capabilities will result from the project?

    We have to learn to compile high-quality plans and schedules, which will be precise enough to be advantageously employed in managing our plant. The chief outcomes of the introduction of the advanced planning technologies include:

    • ability to create high-quality plans within a short time and employ them as management tools;
    • ability to create high-quality steel mill plans and schedules in a short time to be employed as management tool;
    • ability to re-plan in a short time and accommodate the effects of the re-planning in an optimal manner.”

    Technical considerations of the project

    Project scope, technologies employed, time schedule, … The best results can only be achieved if we manage to use the plan to synchronise the activities within the largest possible extent of our internal supply chain. Therefore, we chose a solution that will cover the entire production flow, ranging from steelmaking, all of the rolling mills (based in Třinec and Bohumín) up to rolling mill finishing shop and product handover to the shipping warehouse. The steel mill scheduling model will include the converters, secondary metallurgy, both continuous casting machines, ingot casting facility and the electric steel plant. The scope renders our project rather ambitious. Not all metallurgical plants that have approached the concept of APS technologies eventually managed to implement the solutions with this degree of sophistication. The key project module is the metallurgical production planning and scheduling module — i2 Factory Planner — that will, in conjunction with the free material allocation module — i2 Material Allocator — provide the much needed functionality for creating the optimised Main Plan and Schedule of Production covering the entire production flow at TŽ. The other field that the project will address involves detailed scheduling of the key TŽ production department– the steel mill. The Caster Scheduler — a detailed scheduling module — will provide the planning and control of steelmaking production and optimised heat sequencing for the continuous casters in co-ordination with the Master Plan. The project is not an experiment, but rather an introduction of a solution that has proven to perform well in steelmaking conditions. This gives us the opportunity to plan the project while maintaining the speedy pace. The planned 12 months of the project will take some hurrying for us, but we’re looking forward to it.”

    About TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY

    Třinecké železárny, company tradition since 1839, is an integrated steelmaking company producing long rolled products. With more than 5520 employees is the largest producer of long rolled products in the Czech Republic and is part of leaders’ producers in Europe. Production portfolio comprises wire rod, railway rails, special bars, rebars, wide steel, seamless tubes and various profiles. A year production volume is 2,4 mil. ton, which presents approximately 31 billions CZK. TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY and logo TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY are registered trade marks of the company TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY, a.s.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Increasing Major Company Process Performance at ZVVZ

    Co-operating with LOGIS, the South Bohemia based ZVVZ a.s. are implementing a project designed to improve business case process performance. i2 Factory Planner advanced planning and LOGIS Enterprise Manager project planning technologies are employed under the project scheme.

    1/5/2005

    ZVVZ a.s. is a significant global supplier of air-conditioning and other environmental products and facilities and related services. Under their business cases, the company with approximately 1,050 employees deliver facilities designed and tailor-made to specific customers. This means that joborder and small batch production prevail at the company. The business cases are characterised by pre-production activities and the actual manufacture and assembly of the required components right at the customer sites. Controlling such job orders hence amounts to managing rather complex projects. The Chairman of ZVVZ Managing Board, Ing. Miroslav Knot, adds regarding the project: “The nature of ZVVZ’s business is becoming ever more sophisticated. Customers are no longer willing to be content when the word ‘order’ is linked with the word ‘quality’; they do and will want more. In addition to quality, we have to provide them with more reliability, promptness and flexibility. We are dealing with a business where just these parameters are very difficult to be improved. But all the better, the competitive edge will be that we will gain as soon as we manage to shorten our delivery dates, improve our responsiveness and increase the reliability of our deliveries. Therefore, systematic attention is paid to the issue of improving the quality of our major production processes. What we’re striving to attain is to operate with lesser reserves, both time reserves and reserves between the individual operations, and reserves in stock or capacities, to respond to any change in a rapid and optimal manner, which is a factor in our ability to comply with the business cases. We have to learn to do ‘the right things at the right time’, to operate while retaining better control of the process, to reduce the effects of local decisions and, on the contrary, control the activities in the entire process at the same time. Therefore, the objective we seek to achieve in the company is a certain degree of operational excellence. LOGIS was given the role of our project partner. We make use of their advanced planning technology and know-how and we don’t regret that decision. Although there are a lot of modifications yet to be made, a lot has already been changed. In my opinion, I’m right in saying that we have jointly launched the process of continuous improvement.” As soon as we were preparing the project, we decided to divide it into two stages, the implementation stage and fine-tuning stage. The implementation stage was scheduled to take 12 months and it sought to yield engineering/ organisational conditions for the changes to be introduced, and provide the necessary tools to promote the changes so that they were ready to be directly employed in our plant. Now, once the implementation stage has been brought to an end, we’re in for the fine-tuning stage to polish the processes with of view of enhancing performance parameters such as consistent compliance with production deadlines, stock rotation times or continuous production times,” says Ing. Jiří Lesák, Quality and Control Director, who is in charge of managing the project. “Even before the project was launched, while we were preparing a logic model of the project along with our supplier, we realised that our biggest task would be to provide for the changes in the attitude of the people. For instance, we introduced changes in the manner in which production documentation is drafted – the structure of bills of material and routings must comply with the production logic; otherwise, their applicability in supporting production control would be limited to a great degree. We had to absorb the concept of production planning as a dynamic process, the concept of a business case being a process replete with random effects of various degrees of significance and impacts, a process where accurate figures tend to mingle with inaccurate figures, approximate timing with exact timing, through a process that we nevertheless wanted to submit to precise control. It is just the dynamic nature of the planning process that necessitated organisational measures that also included the foundation of an independent logistics department directly subordinate to the Chief Executive Officer. Last but not least, we had to substantially upgrade the production feedback as one can only control that of which one actually possesses information. The previous practise was to register information on the withdrawal of the products from the shops on paper, with a certain delay and a low degree of precision – therefore, the plant top management were practically denied the chance to interfere with the immediate operative control in any way, and were left with the mere option to assess, ex past facto, how well we had been doing. For this reason, there was no power in the plant that could efficiently and in real time synchronise all the activities associated with order performance, i.e. to provide efficient and effective management with regard to the actual state of affairs. Therefore, we were confronted with the need to create an environment wherein the information could be monitored in an on-line mode, continuously and with a high degree of precision. The above examples clearly show that the changes introduced genuinely applied to all key activities associated with the process of business case performance. The commercial department staff and the designers had to grow accustomed to the necessity to define the deadlines more exactly and monitor them during the pre-production stages. The engineers and technologists had to modify their long-standing habits in creating design and technological documentation. Production and purchasing employees experienced a significant change of job procedures. The foremen, overmen and labourers had to get used to entering data on their undertakings in the ‘computer’ on a daily basis. These were and are huge changes, but in the entire course of introducing them, which admittedly was a painful process at times, we never lost faith in them being a necessary precondition to our successful completion of the project that sought to strengthen our competitiveness,” Ing. Lesák concluded. Because the focal point of the project, right from the beginning, was to improve the specific performance parameters, the latter were subjected to regular monthly measurements, for which Ing. Jan Buriánek, ZVVZ Production Director, and Ing. Tomáš Vojtík, LOGIS Implementation Director were responsible. “In the contract we had defined an accurate metric to be applied when measuring the degree of delivery reliability, stock rotation and continuous production time, and the metric was then complied with throughout the project implementation stages. Similarly, we determined the internal values at the commencement of the project to which we would eventually juxtapose the results achieved. Using the measurements performed, we can objectively conclude that we managed to increase delivery reliability and reduce the production lead time,” says Buriánek. Vojtík had the following to add: “Improving the above parameter necessitated, in addition to other things, that a number of organisational and personal measures had to be taken in order to provide better co-ordination between the production departments and centres. The fact that, at the time being, the contractual values pertaining to the performance parameters, against which we evaluate the project results, are being complied with attests to the positive effects that the introduced changes brought about. It would be unthinkable to introduce such far-reaching changes in any company without the support of the top management. Obviously, the project was approved of by the company’s Board of Directors. The members of the top management were appointed to take roles as members of the project control committee that provides lasting support to the project.” The Chief Executive Officer, Ing. Miroslav Knot, had the following to say about the project: “I’m convinced we set out in the right direction by deciding to launch the development project and that we did a lot of work when implementing it. For instance, the time within which we are capable of deciding on the possible delivery date while taking into account the availability of the key capacities and subdeliveries moved from days to the region of hours. The exactitude and reliability of information on the degree of completion of the projects and the planned completion of the order have increased substantially. These are not only the results of the introduction of the planning software. In my opinion, a high degree of competence, expertise and experience on the part of the supplier’s employees is a key factor in successfully completing projects of this type. Even when the project was in progress, it became clear that LOGIS were capable of providing this, having deployed a team of highly qualified consultants at ZVVZ. If the project as it has been pursued till now had been assessed, I could state that compared to the previous time, we have acquired greater awareness that the activities associated with this development project, hence those activities focused upon improving the process of business case performance, should actually become a permanent part of our work. Therefore, we intend to go on perfecting our ability to plan and control the process of order performance in the future. We will draw upon the existing results of the development project and, along with LOGIS, focus upon better planning and control of the non-production stages (sale, design, construction etc.).”

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A. Implements Advanced Planning Technologies

    Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A., the sole Polish Aluminium producer, adopted the intention to implement an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system under the scheme of company advancement, intending to make use of i2 Factory Planner solution by the American i2 Technologies. The project shall be taken care of by SPIN, co-operating with their Czech Republic-based partner LOGIS, boasting of extensive experience in APS projects.

    01/04/2005

    Marek Kacprowicz, Chairman of the Managing Board of Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A. had the following to say on the reasons that led to the project: “The metallurgical sector is in for development t u r m o i l . A n d those who can take the opportunity and offer more than the others, set the pace. Although we’ve arrived at a high quality of production, we see customer requirements becoming ever more stringent in the domain of flexibility, promptness, precision and reliability of deliveries. Therefore, if we intend to boost customer satisfaction, we have to improve control quality in a significant way. To back up this objective, we decided to employ advanced planning technologies.” Advanced planning technologies are capable of backing up changes designed to improve operational efficiency and customer service standards. As shown in a score of examples involving similar projects implemented in a number of metallurgical plants, inventory turnover may be increased substantially (with the increase ranging between 30% and 50%), production lead times may be reduced (by 30% to 40%), due date prerformance may be increased (by 30% to 50%), etc. Although there are many firms declaring to be suppliers of advanced planning technologies, only a small fraction of these can actually turn the promises into solid results. Jan Woźniak, Production and Technology Director and Member of Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A. Managing Board, maintains: “The contract award was preceded by a robust analysis of the bids submitted by both Polish and foreign companies. The top quality of the i2 Planning Technologies was not the only factor in our decision-making; the experience demonstrated and capabilities on the part of the supplier of the present project had a role to play, too. During the upcoming ten months, the APS system will be implemented, as a result of which we will obtain a very powerful tool to support production planning and control. We will be able to produce more efficiently while being able to accommodate our customers’ needs in a better way.” The implemented solution employs the i2 Factory Planner state-of-the-art planning and control tool designed by i2 Technologies with regard to the needs of metallurgical production, which makes it possible to:

    • identify pending problems relating to production and order performance in advance;
    • optimise capacity utilisation;
    • define material purchasing needs in a precise manner;
    • respond to situational changes and client requirements;
    • determine the possible delivery dates in a rapid and reliable manner;
    • provide updates on the course of order performance;
    • etc.

    Included in the project is the delivery of the application for operational control and withdrawal of finished products that will allow the operators to manage production efficiently in manual or automatic mode. Due to the implemented project, Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A. will be able to plan and control the processes of order reception and performance more effectively, which will ultimately have a favourable effect upon profitability and customer satisfaction. Dalibor Konvička, LOGIS Chief Executive Officer stressed: “Aluminium Konin – Impexmetal S.A. is the first Polish company to employ any of the top planning technologies with a view to enhancing its competitiveness. We’re pleased that our first Polish customer is a company capable of defining their priorities and allocating additional resources with the intention to undertake the project within a short period of time and with maximum certainly. With the progress in the implementation achieved up to this point, it seems the project may be completed by the original deadline, which is an excellent reference for us.” The project was scheduled to take place in four gradual stages, with a total duration of ten months. Each stage consists in undertaking component tasks leading to the commissioning of the defined system functionality with regard to the changes that need to be introduced in the plant processes. There are clearly defined aims for each of the stages and the stages themselves are assessed separately. The project rules are described in detail in LOGIS Project Methodology appended to the Supply Contract and is a document of key importance to the project team. Thanks to the above methodology, which is based upon i2 Technologies Best Practices and is subject to updates with regard to experience collected from previous projects, the results may be achieved within very short times while maintaining minimum risks. “Last month, we concluded the penultimate stage of the project,” says Artur Głodek, Project Manager on behalf of Aluminium Konin¨ – Impexmetal S.A., adding that: ”We headed into the project with a negativity that stemmed from our experience in co-operating with other suppliers who were unable to comply with the agreed time schedule, thus negatively affecting the dates allocated for further projects we were pursuing. Soon, however, it became clear that this project was different both in terms of compliance with the deadlines and in project team readiness and competence. The project went smoothly and the outcomes of the individual stages met our expectations.” The competence of the project team on behalf of the supplier is an all-important factor in the success of advanced planning projects. LOGIS is a long-standing supplier of projects designed to improve corporate competitiveness through projects that seek to improve the quality of planning and control. While present in the market, LOGIS built a strong competence centre that not only implements the actual projects in Central and Eastern European countries, but also promotes projects undertaken by their partners, regardless of the geographical region. Michał Górski, Chairman of SPIN Managing Board said: “Our company has decided to be the first in Poland to invest in a team focusing upon APS/SCM technologies. Now, we’re on the verge of launching the first project of this kind. We can identify the still growing demand in the market for similar technologies. The success we had with the Konin project will show the way to additional similar Poland-based companies. We realise that the high sophistication of the projects requires the full involvement and willingness to co-operate of both the supplier and the customer. We are pleased to be able to rely upon LOGIS, who have been dealing with advanced planning project implementations for more than five years and have a score of highly qualified experts at their disposal.”

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    TOKOZ has completed the implementation of the Advanced Planning System

    A major supplier of security mechanisms, furniture fittings and building fittings, components for the automotive industry, company TOKOZ, has completed the project of implementation of the Advanced Planning System (APS) i2 Factory Planner. The information technologies have been supplied and implemented by the company LOGIS.

    Žďár nad Sázavou 23/3/2005

    Company TOKOZ, a.s. has successfully completed a project, within which the Advanced Planning technologies have been implemented. The information technologies were supplied and implemented by the company LOGIS, the supplier of expert services and information technologies focused on improvement of the quality of management and the competitive ability of companies. The implementation took place within seven months in accordance with the planned schedule. The general manager and vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of the company TOKOZ, Ing. Vladimír Chládek characterizes the purpose of the project as follows: “We are a fully customer-oriented company. Our motto “We deliver what we promise” expresses our ability to reliably, flexibly and quickly respond to our clients’ needs. We want to further develop this ability we have, we want to be even better, and we also want to learn how to secure that the price we pay for the satisfaction of our customers already now was not too high. Such a high price includes unnecessarily high inventory, insufficient overall throughput of our production-logistic chain, not always optimum use of the available resources, and so on. In order to be able to provide the high-standard customer service with maximum efficiency, i.e. with minimum costs, we have to learn how to plan more precisely and to respond with high sensitivity to the changes in any component of the logistic chain. There are many opportunities for improvement in this area. That is why we have invested in the acquisition of an Advanced Planning System, which is at our disposal now, and which will help us increase the throughput of the production, reduce the lead times, improve the stock turn, or in other words: improve the level of our operational excellence. Thanks to this, we will be able to deliver even better what we promise, but with lower related costs.” Ing. Stanislav Havliš, technical and production manager of the company, comments on the course of the project as follows: “Like perhaps most of companies, we also have rich experience with projects involving the implementation of information technologies. I want to express my pleasure that although the project of the APS system implementation was in this respect probably the most complicated one we have ever done, it has worked out best from the point of view of our expectations. LOGIS set a demanding, yet feasible schedule, and provided a highly elaborate and effective project methodology, thanks to which we were able to avoid dead ends and to proceed with much insight. The professionalism of the supplier’s experts and the project discipline were exemplary as well. The project output is not only a functioning Advanced Planning System, but also a quality documentation. In the course of the work, we demanded a lot from each other, and it was a strict imperative for both sides to follow the budget – in spite of that, LOGIS always searched for and often found a way to satisfy some of our additional requirements, while respecting the budget. We often work on common projects with our German partners, but even with them, we usually don’t find projects managed on such a quality basis. Ing. Jaroslav Sýkora, head of the logistics, was appointed the project coordinator and the key user on behalf of the company TOKOZ at the same time. “LOGIS, the supplier of our project, not only has considerable experience in the field of advanced planning, but it also has the top technologies and experts at its disposal, and it achieves very good practical results. I believe that this fact is crucial for the success of the project. I have never participated in anything so demanding and complicated. However, it was a valuable experience, and I am glad that I have had the opportunity to be there. The product i2 Factory Planner has confirmed its reputation of a strong planning tool. Everything important and necessary has been incorporated into the planning model. Already in the course of the implementation, we acquired a much better insight and control of the realized orders. We have used this fact to reduce the total number of delayed deliveries to customers. However, much work is still before us. Now, after the completion of the implementation, we will focus on using the APS system in the best way to continuously improve our capabilities of controlling the routine operation of the company. We must get the system deep under this skin of the processes. We will focus on such activities as increasing the production throughput, reducing the inventory, optimum use of the capacities, but at the same time, improvement of the reliability, flexibility and speed towards our customers.” Ing. Dalibor Konvička, general manager of the company LOGIS, adds: “You would be wrong, if you said that TOKOZ products are not too complex, so the planning of their production cannot be a hard nut to crack, either. To the contrary, we have created a planning model, which definitely does not belong to the simple ones, in this company. In TOKOZ, we met goal-oriented people, exacting in the proper way, but ready to step up a gear at the same time – this is the environment that suits us best. I believe that the implemented planning technologies will bring a high value to our client and will enable the company TOKOZ to use the hidden reserves of its production logistic program in favour of lower costs and higher customer satisfaction.”

    About TOKOZ

    Company TOKOZ, a.s. is a major supplier of security mechanisms, components for the automotive industry, furniture fittings and building fittings. TOKOZ is a stable and flexible company in terms of economy and business, providing its customers with professional services. Stable production, innovation and sale of standard TOKOZ products enable the company to focus on custom manufacturing and services, and these activates have been continuously growing in the last two years. The company’s growing export reflects its activities on new foreign markets, where TOKOZ cooperates with many well-known producers. TOKOZ is a registered trademark of the company TOKOZ, a.s.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    APS at Hayes Lemmerz Autokola: Quickly and Efficiently

    The company of Hayes Lemmerz Autokola has implemented and uses the i2 Factory Planner APS system. The LOGIS Company was chosen as the project implementer. The project was implemented at a quick pace and has produced very good results such as inventory reduction and improved customer satisfaction.

    01/03/2005

    The company of Hayes Lemmerz Autokola, a.s., a member of Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc., is a leading car wheel manufacturer and supplier. At the end of 2002, the company of Hayes Lemmerz Autokola decided to implement the i2 Factory Planner system for Advanced Planning and Scheduling. Erich Zipser, the Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of Hayes Lemmerz Autokola, comments upon the reasons why the company is implementing the project:”The automobile industry is very demanding and uncompromising. Its suppliers are gradually increasing the demands they lay upon each of the links in the supply chain. Businesses that want to succeed cannot rely merely on their ability to produce products with excellent technical properties and high quality – they must be able to offer more. In the past several years, demands for flexibility, speed, precision and on-time performance, i.e. the level of customer service, have been increasing. A number of customer service parameters are strongly affected by how precisely, smoothly and with what performance the order fulfilment processes are running. Thus, with improved customer service, it is also necessary to improve the operational excellence of the business. These are today´s imperatives. To support the fulfilment thereof, we have decided to apply advanced planning technologies and use them to the benefit of more successful company management.”

    • Better understanding of the ability to meet customer demands and identify related issues with greater time in advance and precision
    • Improved general visibility through connecting Sales-Production-Purchasing processes
    • Improved ability to plan material requirements
    • Improved planning of capacity requirements

    Also in the next three-month BR2 stage, we managed to achieve our planned objectives – both in timing and results:

    • Ability to globally optimise plan
    • Prompt response to customer demands
    • What-if plan simulation ? plan variants creation
    • Financial assessment of plan variants
    • Prompt plan updating in response to changing situations

    I think we definitely can state that the results achieved meet our expectations.” “Thanks to the advance planning technologies application, the Sales-Production-Purchasing process has become more transparent and consistent´, comments Jiří Adámek, a company Executive Director, and adds: “At the same time, the project strengthened some of our important capacities. For example, avoid potential bottlenecks in production before they occur and take appropriate measures in time, or the ability to plan material requirements with greater precision and with a longer time horizon. It also allowed us to sensitively respond to changing situations. It has reflected favourably in our stock levels – we see here, of course, when measuring in more detail, continuing variations but the long-term stock level has dropped by about 30 percent. Even this result is worth mentioning.”

    The final assessment was given by the General Director, Mr.Erich Zipser, again:

    “We are glad we have found courage ´to go at it.´ The project results have unambiguously met our expectations. Although it may seem, when looking back, that everything went well and everything was easy, I am aware that a lot of obstacles had to be overcome and many changes had to be implemented during the project. I appreciate the proactive approach of the implementation team, procedures, methodologies and technologies undertaken. We now work more efficiently and with better perspective. We are now able to identify many issues that we faced before – but do so more quickly and in advance, and find solutions for avoiding them. We are able to respond much more quickly and precisely to any change related to the fulfilling orders. Our cooperation with LOGIS helps us develop our abilities and improve. It allows us not only to reduce costs but also strengthen our position as a flexible and reliable link in production chain in the automobile industry.”

    About Hayes Lemmerz

    ayes Lemmerz International, Inc. is one of the leading global suppliers of automotive and commercial wheels for on-road transport, brakes, power trains, suspension and other relieved components. The company has over 40 plants, and 3 joint ventures with approximately 11, 000 employees. Hayes Lemmerz Autokola, a.s. is a member of Hayes Lemmerz International, Wheels Group. It is a manufacturer of steel wheels for passenger cars. It is a significant supplier of VW, Ford and OPEL. Recently, it has won contracts for deliveries to the new plants of Toyota in Kolín and PSA in Trnava.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    LOGIS got an order from Blades Technology Ltd.

    The Blades Technology, a top producer of jet engine turbine blades, has ordered the delivery and implementation of the advanced production planning system i2 Factory Planner, from the LOGIS company. The implementation is going to be carried out during the first half of 2005.

    Frenštát p. R., 10/1/2005

    Blades Technology Ltd., a top producer of jet engine turbine blades, a member of The Blades Technology International group, has ordered the delivery and implementation of the advanced production planning system i2 Factory Planner, from the LOGIS company. During a six-months project, the i2 Factory Planner system from i2 Technologies will be implemented. “We chose i2 Factory Planner over more than a dozen competing packages, due to it’s versatility, speed of operation, and ability to model a complex manufacturing plant with minimal customization. We were also impressed by the LOGIS team’s professionalism during the proof of concept stage, and are very satisfied to be working with them on the implementation”, says Dan Chissick, the Project Manager at BTL. The main project targets are the following:

    • to improve the ability to cover the surplus of demand over the company´s current capability by increasing its production throughput
    • to improve production efficiency through better capacity utilization and increasing the turnover of supply
    • to improve customer services parameters (customer satisfaction) by accelerating the adaptability to changing trends and increasing delivery reliability

    “Blades Technology is definitely the client who knows exactly what he wants. The complexity of the supplier´s selection process corresponded to it. “We are more than pleased to be chosen by our client in this world-wide competition´”, comments Dalibor Konvička, the Chief Executive Officer of LOGIS and adds: “Our new client earmarked a quality team for the project and he also has high quality data at his disposal. In my opinion this project is highly qualified for excellent results in a short time.”

    About Blades Technology

    lades Technology Ltd. (BTL) is a manufacturer of airfoil blades for jet engines, using advanced forging and machining technology on various types of metals, with annual sales of over 100 million US$. Currently BTL manufactures over 500 different parts to explicit orders from various customers. BTL has 3 factories and employs around 400-500 workers. Blades Technology International (BTI) is a world-leader in the manufacturing of titanium, stainless steel, and nickel parts for a myriad of industries, including aero and medical. With over 35 years of experience, our specialties are precision forging and high-tech machining of parts made of super alloys. BTL, with annual sales of $180M, is a multi-national company, comprised of three facilities: Blades Technology Ltd. (BTL) in Nahariya, Israel; Precision Components Inc. (PCI) in Columbus, Georgia, USA; and Xian Airfoil Technology Ltd. (XAT) in Xian, China.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).

    Hayes Lemmerz Autokola expand APS System Use

    Hayes Lemmerz Autokola have been using i2 Factory Planner in passenger car wheel production planning and control, the company’s key business segment, for more than two years. Following their good experience in operating the present system, the company representatives now consider extending the use of the system to further products, namely forklifts.

    01/01/2003

    Hayes Lemmerz Autokola have been using i2 Factory Planner in passenger car wheel production planning and control, the company’s key business segment, for more than two years. Following their good experience in operating the present system, the company representatives now consider extending the use of the system to further products, namely forklifts. Forklift wheel manufacture department has been in the shadow of the passenger car production department for years. Last year, however, the business volume started to grow substantially. As Jiří Adámek, the Chief Executive Officer maintains: ‘Future prospects warrant optimistic prognoses. We are closing on new businesses; we have introduced the manufacture of split wheels for our major customers. If the production figures keep on growing at this rate, we will have reached the psychological limit of half a million wheels per annum within five years.’ The rapid production growth that was in place even at the end of last year revealed some weaknesses in the planning process adopted along with the wheel manufacture from the affiliated German-based company. Forklift wheel manufacture includes the planning of over 300 general wheel types. Considering the quantity of required product types and their low degree of seriality, the lines must be reconstructed almost every other hour. At these transitions, the reconstruction times must be taken into account, which will amount to several tens of minutes and will reduce the actual availability of the production capacities due to their length. The average capacity utilisation with the key machines has grown by almost tens of percentage points during the last 12 months, owing to new orders placed. The growth began to decelerate the rate at which the orders were passing through the plant and led to an increased volume of work-in-process and reduced order reliability in time. Yet another negative effect involves the poor awareness of the current state of affairs in production and the planned structure of the production plan. The commercial department staff was unable to respond promptly to the newly emerging customer requirements, and/or to explain in advance the changes in delivery dates that occurred along with the introduction of new wheel types. Therefore, the decision was passed to extend the use of state-of-the-art APS planning systems to forklift wheel production planning as well. “The manufacture of passenger car wheels has always been our main business programme. Therefore, the APS system was initially directed to this particular part of production,” says Ing. Ludmila Fonioková, IT Director, and adds: “Our existing experience in operating the APS system has been positive; thanks to the systems, we achieved some important results in the realm of capacity utilisation and improved customer satisfaction. So now the time has come and we’re confronted with the challenge to improve the quality of planning in the domain of forklift wheel manufacture, and it’s clear to us what tool we will use. We’ve decided to extend the use of the i2 Factory Planner system to the forklift wheel manufacture department.” Vít Lednický, the Head of IT System Advancement, had the following to add: “While implemented, the project didn’t pose any serious problems. We already had experience operating the APS system in the production of passenger car wheels. Most members of the implementation team already had the experience and knew where they had to watch out. We headed energetically into the further stage of the project.” As of today, the production of forklift wheel disks and split wheels has been incorporated in the Factory Planner. It has resulted in an increased overview of this part of production, easier identification of bottlenecks and better quality of the work of commercial managers when dealing with their customers. Now, more qualified responses may be provided to the new demands, both in terms of delivery dates and volumes. The project is far from completed, though. The upcoming stage will include the incorporation of forklift wheel assembly. The essential characteristics of this part of production include the complex process of re-building the lines during the transition between the assemblies of the individual types of wheels. The re-building duration is determined by a number of specific factors that stem from the wheels’ technical parameters, such as the number of fixing openings, the diameter of the central opening and the pitch circles, wheel inset, contact surfaces, etc. The team that is about to rise to this challenge will seek to increase the practical use of the assembling lines, thus minimising losses. The project, fully supported by the management, will be subject to close observation. According to Chief Executive Officer, Jiří Adámek, the application of the APS system in the process of production planning is in full accordance with the OPEX (Operational Excellence) enterprise policy based on continuous improvement principles and presenting Hayes Lemmerz Autokola as a premium quality global manufacturer of wheels with a growing number of satisfied customers, educating their best people and continually reducing costs.

    About Hayes Lemmerz

    Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. is one of the leading global suppliers of automotive and commercial wheels for on-road transport, brakes, power trains, suspension and other relieved components. The company has over 40 plants, and 3 joint ventures with approximately 11, 000 employees. Hayes Lemmerz Autokola, a.s. is a member of Hayes Lemmerz International, Wheels Group. It is a manufacturer of steel wheels for passenger cars. It is a significant supplier of VW, Ford and OPEL. Recently, it has won contracts for deliveries to the new plants of Toyota in Kolín and PSA in Trnava.

    About LOGIS

    LOGIS is a supplier of expertise services and information technologies. The deliveries are executed in the form of projects aiming at improvement of management effectiveness and development of business success at the customers’ businesses. Within the framework of their solutions, LOGIS applies advanced managing and planning methods and procedures, including high-performance information technologies in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).