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Material Management
The "Material Management" module defines the organization or topology of controlled storage areas (stockyards) and methods / constraints related to the physical storage and accounting for inventory stored in the controlled stocking area of the plant.
The module is capable of handling the stacking and storing of steel industry specific materials such as slabs, blooms, billets, coils, slit coils, plates, stacks of sheet, sections, bundles of bars, wire rod, etc.
Dialogues also support the process of taking physical inventory.
The BetaPlanner project helped us to achieve the following benefits: - Perfect and quick integration of the new rules - High flexibility in case of unexpected drastic change (breakdown, new constraints, banned products, etc.) - Easy tuning on the relative weights for due date respect, cost reduction, ... - Appreciable increase of hot charging rate by checking every virtual slab - Appreciable contribution to coffin size increase - Time saving on Scheduling process allowing operators to dedicate on more value added tasks
