Supply Visualization

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• Supply Visualization
• Margriet Nijboer
• Imperial Tobacco
• 18 June 2008

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Introduction

• Imperial Tobacco is the worlds fourth largest
  international tobacco company, which
  manufactures, markets and sells a comprehensive
  range of cigarettes, tobaccos, rolling papers and
  tubes.
• Imperial Tobacco products are available in over
  130 countries worldwide.
• 58 Manufacturing sites worldwide
• 31 Cigarette factories
• 24 Other tobacco product and processing factories
• 3 Paper and tube factories

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Centre of Excellence Manufacturing

• Group Information Systems Function
• Responsible within Manufacturing division for
• Project Delivery Management
• Programme Support Management
• Development
• Data Centre Management

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Support Model
Local
Group Function
CoE Manufacturing
Management
2nd Line Support 1st Line Application
Management
Key User
Local IS
1st Line support
External Partners
Data Centre
External
Internal
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Supply Visualization
MFGX.net Exchange
Suppliers
Imperial Tobacco

Inventory
Supply Visualization
Demand
Supply
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SV Infrastructure

• Supply Visualization hosted with QAD
• Annual fee for maintenance hosting
• Publish real-time information on stock levels and
  demands to our suppliers
• Poller running in Data Centre ITG for data update
• Source is MFG/PRO, both for static and dynamic
  data
• Access via Web browser

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SV Landscape

• Nottingham (UK) Cigarette
• Tarnowo (Poland) Cigarette/RYO
• Wilrijk (Belgium) Paper
• implementation running
• Joure (Netherlands) RYO
• preparation implementation running

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SV Usage

• Suppliers that are managed by Supplier Schedules
• Variety of items
• Inner Frame
• Cigarette Paper
• Plugwrap
• Inner Liner
• Packetwrap
• Booklets
• Paper Bobbins
• Outers
• Shipping Cases

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SV Standard views

• Inventory
• Orders
• Schedules
• ASNs
• Receipts
• Administration

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Implementation SV

• Quick and relatively easy to implement
• Training Customer / Supplier process
• Definition rules of the game
• Set up working data set

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Templates
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