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Strategy Determination for New Investment

Project Summary

A leading Turkish beverage manufacturer decided to invest in new bottling capacity to meet rising demand. The options were to invest in one of the existing factories or to build a new factory. Working with Dijitalis, the company optimized the number and speed of bottling lines to be installed, along with the location preference.

Project Scope

  • Decision on the right line size for high utilization rates by performing capacity simulations under the influence of seasonality
  • Selection of the location for the new capacity investment with supply chain network optimization
  • Optimization of product-factory and factory-customer assignments

Benefits

  • Reduction in annual distribution costs
  • 8% saving in initial investment cost, 6% saving in production costs
  • Deployment of a planning IT system to enable the company to continuously perform similar analyses