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Simio for DDMRP Design, Implementation, and Operation

Simio Solution Series Edition 18

WHEN

November 8, 2023
60 minutes

PRESENTER

Gerrit Zaayman, Vice President, Manufacturing Digital Twin Solution & Christine Watson, Senior Product Specialist

Highlights

Learn More About Simio’s DDMRP Digital Twin Software

The essence of any business is all about flow: the flow of materials and/or services from suppliers, then through one or multiple manufacturing plants, and then through delivery channels to customers; the flow of information to all parties about what is planned and required, what is happening, what has happened, and what should happen next; the flow of cash back from the market to and through the suppliers. The faster a business can make, move, and deliver its products and offerings, the better the performance of the organization tends to be.

To this end, Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, the founders of the Demand Driven Institute developed an innovative methodology called Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) to manage the flow of material and information more effectively in a visual and practical way. They did this by introducing strategically placed inventory decoupling points to support today’s reality of larger product variety, smaller orders with shorter lead times, and rapidly changing demand topped by constantly varying supply chain conditions. For a more complete description of the method including links to textbooks, videos and case studies readers should visit: https://www.demanddriveninstitute.com/ddmrp

Simio has created an agile platform to develop Adaptive Process Digital Twins (Digital Twin) that can be deployed for both predictive and prescriptive applications to facilitate comprehensive digital transformation and process re-engineering initiatives. A Simio Digital Twin is a data generated and driven, object oriented, 3D simulation model that accurately replicates the physical behavior of complex processes when powered by Simio’s discrete event simulation platform. A Digital Twin captures the current process in detail including all physical constraints, business rules, and detailed decision logic to serve as a process and operational knowledge base and reference model that can be used to evaluate all future changes and system performance.

Recognizing that an Adaptive Process Digital Twin would be an ideal platform to design and implement DDMRP, Simio and the Demand Driven Institute began a collaboration that has led to groundbreaking advancements in managing material flow. Join us for this Simio Solution Series Webinar to learn about how to use Simio for DDMRP.

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About the presenter

Gerrit Zaayman

Gerrit Zaayman, Vice President, Manufacturing Digital Twin Solution & Christine Watson, Senior Product Specialist

Gerrit holds a B.S. in electronic engineering and specializes in process simulation, business process reengineering and artificial intelligence, and helped to establish the leading process, supply chain and workflow simulation business in South Africa. In his years at i2 Technologies, where he became the territory manager for South Africa, he was responsible for sales and delivery of i2’s leading supply chain planning and optimization software to large enterprises, gaining experience in planning and optimization from the strategic design level down to detail factory scheduling. At Simio, Gerrit is responsible for working with prospects and customers for the design and business integration of Simio’s leading manufacturing digital twin solutions.