The inherent complexity of industrial operations, the difficulty of modeling process units, the logistics, the optimization of feedstock and product blending, the combination of paper and physical accounting requirements, and the natural different models’ granularities for serving different purposes, among others, make production planning, scheduling and accounting extremely challenging processes.
KBC conceives the digital transformation of the value chain as an enabler for new ways of working with supply chain partners and new ways of managing and optimizing supply chain and asset operations. This transformation allows real-time optimization of the entire supply chain. Companies that take this opportunity for transformation most quickly will have a strategic competitive advantage over competitors resulting in significantly higher returns to stakeholders.
Recent developments in KBC's technology support the digital transformation of the value chain by enabling new business models, better optimization, more agility, and better execution of plans.
Monroe Energy's Trainer Refinery has multiple users in different locations entering information into their systems. This article looks at the benefits of a combined implementation of Visual MESA Production Accounting and Supply Chain Scheduling systems at Monroe Trainer facility, Philadelphia, USA. In addition, it describes some of the most challenging aspects of the system implementation.