aspenONE Supply Chain

The company Aspen Technology, Inc., the supplier of software tools and services for the enterprises of oil and gas and chemical industries, submitted the new version of the aspenONE Supply Chain software product intended for the chemical companies, the companies for production of products of thin organic synthesis, polymers, the packed-up consumer goods, the enterprises of the microbiological industry and other technology companies. The updated interface of applications of Aspen Supply Chain Planner and the Aspen Plant Scheduler family does navigation on difficult supply chains more convenient, providing quick access to information accelerating an effective response of a system to unexpected market situations.

The user interface allows managers and planning specialists to get quick access to information which is important for acceptance of optimal solutions on supply chains. It provides intellectual visualization and multidisplay viewing data, the active help to the user, the improved navigation, the organization of workflows and creation of the configured templates. All these new features considerably reduce payback periods of capital costs.

"AspenTech aims to offer fast, flexible and simple solutions for optimization of a supply chain in use. For many years, aiming to reach higher yield of business, leading companies of chemical and processing industry use Aspen Supply Chain Planner and Aspen Plant Scheduler for optimization volume and scheduling, – the executive vice president of AspenTech company Manolis Kotsabazakis says. – In the new version we combined high performance with the intuitive interface which specialists of different professions can use. Experience of our users validates our vision of a role of the aspenONE systems – to solve optimization problems step by step, moving from simple to difficult using the most convenient software tools in use".

The configured templates increase efficiency of work of specialists in planning as during operation the user can save the current configuration of the program and setup of the screen for one click. With their help it is simpler to adapt the application to specific needs of the specific enterprise. Advanced transactions of editing, filtering and data analysis reduce costs of time for accomplishment of scrupulous procedures of simulation modeling of business activities of the enterprise and developments of scenarios of the multiple estimated analysis thanks to what process of acceptance of management decisions accelerates.

New forms of visual representation of data on exclusive situations are facilitated considerably by planning process of activity and sales. Now planners can quickly identify the most critical and requiring urgent solution and to beforehand find possible options their solutions. And existence in the interface of the scheduler of the "drag and drop" function will help them to make quicker more effective diagrams of production due to attraction to planning process of specialists of other professions.

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The appearance and structure of the interface corresponds to usual Microsoft Office applications that accelerates learning process and increases labor productivity.

"When many years ago we for the first time made the decision to use the products AspenTech in the field of supply chains, the choice was caused by the fact that these solutions allow to perform complex optimization. New updates accelerate work, allow to make the major decisions more quickly and even more increase business performance", - Kamil Beffa, the senior vice president of Lafarge company commented on new release.