Meet production goals, maximize utilization, and reduce costs
Key Capabilities
Interpretable AI Insights
Interpretable AI Insights
- Leverage an interpretability framework that provides visibility into major cost drivers and production bottlenecks
- Review AI-generated alerts with robust evidence packages and explainability
Optimal manufacturing and distribution schedules
Optimal manufacturing and distribution schedules
- Account for constraints that change over time
- Provide visibility into major cost drivers and production bottlenecks
- Create a single unified view of the manufacturing and distribution operations
AI-based change order predictions
AI-based change order predictions
- Predict and plan for change orders using AI techniques that predict likelihood of change
- Model each order-line characteristic (e.g., historical changes in orders and order-lines by customer, customer purchasing behavior) and its evolution over time
Elastic solver for scheduling
Elastic solver for scheduling
- Schedule manufacturing or logistics operation using an elastic solver
- Minimize production costs, inventory costs, and staffing costs
- Maximize high-margin product throughput by deploying resources at the right time, in the right order, at the right capacity
Scenario analyses
Scenario analyses
- Analyze what-if scenarios to assess the impact of planning, production, and distribution modifications on throughput, cost, and profit
- Configure alerts and recommendations specific to customer, products, orders, and facilities
- Tune the machine learning models to accommodate operations complexity
Enterprise-wide collaboration
Enterprise-wide collaboration
- Align sales, marketing, planning, and manufacturing activities behind one planning and scheduling suite
- Use bidirectional integration with existing systems of record
Application Scope
C3 AI Production Schedule Optimization can be deployed for any customer demand scope and across all major types of manufacturing and distribution operations.
Customer Demand
Global, regional, local
Customer-product-facility granularity
Daily, weekly, monthly time horizon
Production Processes
Process manufacturing
Discrete manufacturing
Make-to-stock
Make-to-order
Assemble-to-stock
Assemble-to-order
Distribution Processes
Truck, ship, railcar scheduling
Refinery to terminals
Facility to distribution centers
Industries
Industrial Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
Transportation
Freight Industry
Healthcare
Benefits for Application Users
Production Scheduler
Deliver accurate production requirements to schedule engineers based on AI-based production schedules.
Scheduling Engineer
Generate optimal process schedules, meet customer demand, and minimize waste while accounting for all operational constraints.
Production Manager
Set and meet realistic production facility objectives for maximum throughput and minimum cost.
Data and Architecture
