Viscofan, a Spanish company, is the world’s number one producer of edible collagen, used in smoked foods production. We were asked to help Viscofan work on a project lessening the time between the two phases of the production process in two various countries.
New S&OP process
synchronization of Czech and German production line
Viscofan products are quite specific; it is because the sausage casing needs a few days to ripen before being further processed and therefore it is impossible to have both phases go one right after the other, as the waste would grow. For this reason, we designed the S&OP process for a better information exchange and we proposed a synchronization of Czech and German production line. That helped to also decrease inventory stock, especially stock allowance which was growing due to the uncertainty of orders. We also suggested adjusting part of the information system, which immensely helped to simplify the work during batch exchange.
Thanks to the measures mentioned above, and some other ones, too, we managed to lessen the time between the two phases of production from 20 to optimal 9 days, which is more than a half of the original time.
Supply time shortened
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