"Forecast" helped Danone group with Russia to optimize purchase of milk

Example of application of the analytical systems developed by Prognoz company based on own platform and provided at a conference - automation of schedule system of purchases of dairy raw materials for Danone group in Russia which integrated 18 plants, 60 logistic centers and 12 thousand employees. A system allowed to save about 1% of costs of the company, and the payback period of the project made less than a year.

The Danone group reduced costs for purchase of dairy raw materials for 1.5% a year thanks to implementation of the automated system of planning of dairy balance developed by Prognoz company. Such economy on costs in scales of Russia allowed to pay back system development less than in a year.

"Danone had own optimization model. And especially we are proud of the fact that our analysts managed to develop model which found additional sources of growth of efficiency", - the project manager from Prognoz company Maxim Perlov says.

The schedule system of dairy balance of the company is developed based on a software platform of Prognoz Platform. The optimization model at the heart of a system considers a set of the factors and restrictions existing in agricultural production including seasonality, storage lives and product quality, logistics and many others – only more than 100,000 managing directors of variables. All this allows to create optimal purchase plans, processings of raw materials and productions of finished goods, helps managers to select effective solutions on purchase of milk.

"Forecast is the only company which could simulate the processes born by our command for years, implement them using own platform and show efficiency of this solution", - Stanislav Manuilov, the project manager in Danone group in Russia commented.