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Cigarette Manufacturer Zhejiang Tobacco Selects Quintiq Planning Solution to Support Production
Routing System
'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, June 30 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
solutions, today announced that China Tobacco Zhejiang Industrial Co., Ltd
("Zhejiang Tobacco")one of China's largest and most respected tobacco
manufacturers, has chosen Quintiq to provide a planning solution for
scheduling its new primary production lines. The Quintiq Scheduler will be
implemented in the new production facility being built in Hangzhou and will
enable Zhejiang Tobacco Hangzhou Divistion to control the WIP (work in
progress) time of different materials, improve delivery performance, reduce
setup times and ensure quality consistency.
Revolutionary production routing demands advanced planning solution
Zhejiang Tobacco, which produces 80 billion cigarettes every year sold
under 30 different brand names, is in the process of constructing a new
primary production plant for its Hangzhou manufacturing division. This plant
will have a revolutionary routing system - the first of its kind - which will
coordinate the production, inventory and delivery operations of tobacco
mixtures. According to the new routing system, raw materials will be mixed
into different kinds of semi-finished modules and later assembled into
cigarettes according to the product specifications of each brand. This new
routing system is designed to ensure that the strict quality control
necessary for cigarette production and internal delivery performance demands
can be met.
The scheduling puzzle of the new routing system is far too complicated to
be handled manually. As a result, Zhejiang Tobacco sought an advanced
scheduling solution that could support the complexity of its new supply chain
design and also provide a high degree of flexibility. Zhejiang Tobacco chose
Quintiq because of its optimization capabilities, the flexibility of the
software and the knowledgeable implementation staff.
Quintiq perfect-fit solution integrates with multiple business processes
The Quintiq Scheduler will help Zhejiang Tobacco Hangzhou Division
calculate the demands of semi-finished modules and raw materials according to
the packaging schedule, create production batches and schedule them onto
suitable production lines. Quintiq will integrate with multiple systems in
Zhejiang Tobacco Hangzhou Division, ensuring all information relevant to
planning is located in a unified system to create transparency along the
entire supply chain. Additional expected benefits of the Quintiq system
include shorter set-up times of primary equipment and reduced workload for
schedulers.
"Zhejiang Tobacco selected the Quintiq Scheduling solution for its
Hangzhou manufacturing division because of its ability to optimize highly
complicated supply chains," commented Cindy Li, Director of Business Unit
China and North Asia at Quintiq. "The unique Quintiq technology architecture
is able to take into account all of the constraints and complexities involved
in cigarette manufacturing to ensure both delivery performance and
consistency and quality of the final product. We are pleased that an
important Chinese company such as Zhejiang Tobacco has chosen a Quintiq
solution and are fully confident we will be able to help it reach its goals
for this innovative project."
About Zhengjiang Tobacco
Founded in 2007, China Tobacco Zhejiang Industrial Co., Ltd. is mainly
engaged in tobacco production and sales, the operation of tobacco materials
and smoke spare parts, tobacco import and cigarette export business, and
production, diversity and asset management related with production and
marketing of tobacco products. It has 16 departments and two manufacturing
departments in Hangzhou and Ningbo with 4200 employees. In 2009, the revenue
of China Tobacco Zhejiang Industrial Co., Ltd. is 28.9 billion RMB.
About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain
management software solutions. This fast-growing company, established in
1997, offers and implements software for planning and optimizing complex
business processes throughout the enterprise. The company's headquarters are
located in The Netherlands, regional HQ in Philadelphia, USA and with
subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Malaysia and the United
Kingdom. Quintiq systems are implemented in 74 countries worldwide. More at
SOURCE: Quintiq
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