8 Of Top 10 Food Processors On Food Processing Top 100 List Are Powered By INSIGHT
Supply Chain Planning Solutions from INSIGHT Boost Revenues of Top Producers
Manassas, VA - INSIGHT, Inc., an international provider of supply chain planning solutions for the world's foremost companies, announces that 8 of the top 10 food processors on the Food Processing Top 100 use INSIGHT's SAILS 21 for optimal supply chain planning. Food Processing magazine's annual list of North America's largest food companies ranks 100 processors based on revenues. Over half of the top 30 on the list use SAILS 21 to streamline their supply chain networks, squeeze costs from operations, maximize profits, and improve customer service levels.
"In today's highly competitive food industry, companies are facing the issues of consumer's change in eating habits, commodity price hikes, and multiple mergers and acquisitions," said Jeff Karrenbauer, president of INSIGHT, Inc. "Using SAILS 21, INSIGHT's state-of-the-art supply chain optimization solution, companies can improve customer service levels, decrease cycle times, and lower logistics costs by optimizing the location and quantity of raw material suppliers, manufacturing sites, distribution facilities, and inventory assets."
SAILS 21 is unique in its ability to model the real world and deliver the best answer, even in the most complex situations. Customer demand for shorter cycle times and specialized packaging/delivery requirements; mass customization of products; globalization of operations (including sourcing, production, sales and marketing; and implementation of lean manufacturing initiatives) are trends that have contributed to an explosion of operations to be planned for.
SAILS supply chain planning solution is the only solution on the market to provide strategic, tactical and operational supply chain plans, which provide manufacturers with the optimum plan to meet demand needs and supply limitations while meeting corporate goals of low cost and improved profitability. Strategically SAILS determines the location, size, and the number of plants, distribution centers, and suppliers, including sourcing and deployment plans for each plant, each distribution center, and each customer. At a tactical level, SAILS optimizes the flow of goods throughout a given supply chain configuration over a time horizon and develops sourcing, production, deployment, and distribution plans. Operationally, SAILS can create production schedules which include all of a plant's resource needs, including labor, equipment, and materials.
The top tier of the Food Processing magazine Top 100 list of companies who use INSIGHT includes Kraft Foods, Pepsico, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch, Unilever, Kellogg, and others. These firms have used SAILS 21 to reduce inventory, improve customer service, increase asset utilization, and corporate profitability.
SOURCE: INSIGHT, Inc.