Global brewing major Heineken International has selected Infor to roll out the company’s Advanced Scheduling application in its breweries in 20 countries.
Infor Advanced Scheduling is expected to play a key role in helping Heineken to harmonize and standardize approximately 90 percent of the operations in these breweries, helping Heineken to optimize capacity across this network, reduce production complexity and improve purchasing power.
Heineken, which has done a pilot in two breweries in Italy, has a template to implement throughout operating companies across the globe.
Heineken expects to decrease levels of inventory of materials such as glass bottles by up to 40 percent, whilst improving capacity by up to 10 percent and enhancing the consistency of workload scheduling in the breweries.
Heineken also uses Infor Advanced Planning as part of its sales and operational planning (S&OP) process. The brewer uses a monthly S&OP cycle that takes third party application data and experiments for various scenarios across 18 months, including promotions, capacity shifts and the introduction of new products.
“It is vital for us to reduce complexity in our operations and keep control of production,” said Ad van Delzen, strategic planner, Heineken. Applications such as Infor Advanced Scheduling will help us to extend this control across our breweries and offer a route to improved profitability and much greater efficiency.”
