Uralchem has completed a project to switch to the Optimacros platform

2025: S&OP move to Optimacros platform

OKHK Uralchem JSC has completed a project to transfer the medium-term sales and operations planning (S&OP) system to the domestic Optimakros platform. Migration work was carried out by specialists of the ATOMS Consulting consulting company, which announced this on February 11, 2025.

One of the planning systems Uralchem, which was used, ceased to meet management requirements for several parameters. In this regard, it was decided to switch to another software product. There were rather strict requirements for alternative developments, in particular:

• the solution should be completely domestic;
• mandatory focus on big business;
• using the concept of self-service or low-code so that the customer can independently support and develop the system in the future;
• ensuring the possibility of prompt revision and adjustment of the scenarios of the sales plan and operations for such a large company as Uralchem.

One of the key requirements was the ability to solve optimization problems at the intersection of business functions.

{{quote "We saw our goal in implementing a product that will not only not disrupt the existing IT architecture in the organization, but will also contribute to its development, increasing efficiency and helping to achieve the goals set by the company management. As the project at Uralchem showed, Optimakros is coping with this task, "said Maxim Yurygin, partner of ATOMS Consulting. }}

The algorithms implemented in Optimacros ensure the formation of optimal and integrated sales, production and shipment plans, taking into account existing prerequisites and restrictions, with monthly and daily details. Internal algorithms allow you to adequately assess the feasibility of the plan according to a given set of parameters, including based on the availability of transport, the capacity of packaging machines and the possibility of shipment from the warehouse.

As a result of the project implementation, the units for planning and monitoring the execution of the shipment and sales plan and the formation of a material balance were transferred to the system.

As of February 2025, the system accumulates more than 18 thousand indicators and over 1,500 forms. More than 80 integration flows both incoming and outgoing from the system are also automated.

This project for our company was significant, - said Andrey Gvoskov, director of ATOMS Consulting. - The implemented model is one of the most difficult we have encountered in the market. Thanks to the project, not only new architectural solutions have been developed, it has become one of the sources of ideas for the development and improvement of the Optimacros platform itself,

Six plants are involved in the planning process, the main divisions of the sites are the production and technical department, the production economics department, and commercial blocks. In addition, employees of trading houses, logicians, analysts, financiers of the management company are involved in the process. Actual data comes from accounting systems - 1C, Navigator, MES. The number of users of the system is 115 people.

Optimacros "is the foundation of the planning system and an integral part of the infrastructure of Uralchem. And the Competence Center created within the framework of the project on the Customer's side is able to completely close the tasks of supporting and developing the Planning System due to the flexibility and ease of setting up the Optimacros platform, - said Yevgeny Litvinenko, leading architect of information systems of OKHK Uralchem JSC.