Plastic Manufacturing Industry
Overview
Plastic manufacturing includes many diverse market segments yet share commonality in planning, inventory and production scheduling. These companies strive to maximize efficiency, both internally and externally within their supply chains, through better visibility and understanding of both customer and supplier partners.
Key components in the supply chain include the optimization of schedules, costing commodity based components to fulfill multiple decision criteria, maximizing utilization while minimizing changeovers, and timely product availability without excess inventory. The financial impact creates the competitive advantage of aggressively priced industries.
Whether using extrusion, thermoforming, compression, reaction injection, blow or injection molding, plastic manufacturers must be able to determine the appropriate supply chain model with the business requirements of the competitive environment. Utilizing new advanced planning technologies, along with a proven ERP backbone or lean manufacturing principles, maintenance systems and tool usage can help these organizations meet these requirements. Clearly, decision support from a formal, integrated enabling technology is critical to success in today’s plastics manufacturing environment. As importantly, organizations must define and adhere to clearly defined, standardized and well-implemented business processes.
Key Industry Business Drivers and Complex Requirements
While certain industry segments have some unique requirements, like medical requires clean manufacturing environments, most plastic manufacturers share concerns in several key areas:
- Advanced planning
- Color and changeover optimization
- Commodity based pricing
- Supplier and customer visibility
- Supply chain management
- Tool management
- Maintenance planning
- Quality
- Forecasting
Our Experience
Logan Consulting has significant experience working with plastics manufacturers in industry segments from container manufacturers and hospital supplies to automotive batteries and body parts. Our ability to execute projects quickly and successfully, and our dedication to implementing business, manufacturing and project standards, makes us an ideal partner for companies with plastic manufacturing.
Specific Clients:
- Johnson Controls Battery Division
- Tech Group Medical
- American Precision Plastics
- The Vollrath Group
- Saint Gobain
- Star Container
- Top Seal
- GE Plastics-Polymerland
- Asyst Technologies LLC
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