Aluminum

Digital technologies for more efficient and sustainable aluminum production

Aluminum is a strategic material for multiple industries due to its light weight, strength and versatility. However, the industry faces complex challenges, from the volatility of raw material prices to the need to optimize operating costs and control of purchasing negotiations.
Efficient refining and monitoring of the chemical and physical properties of materials play a key role in production optimization, especially in secondary aluminum processing.
With our many years of experience, we develop tailored digital solutions for the aluminum industry, improving operational efficiency, process control, and sustainability.
With advanced technologies based mainly on SAP, we turn challenges into opportunities, ensuring competitiveness in an ever-changing market.

We integrate your production processes with those of your suppliers and customers

Raw material purchase

  • Management of an articulated pricing scheme at the purchasing stage and control batches on incoming loads to track agreement steps with the supplier based on the sampling data obtained and the negotiation carried out
  • Dashboard for settlement to the supplier, with an overview of all information related to the incoming load (chemical analysis, weight found, yield sampled, …)

Wheelbarrow weighing

  • Supports inbound and outbound logistics of manufacturing companies
  • Fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA back-end for managing the entire traffic of vehicles requiring weight control, both incoming and outgoing
  • Constant dialogue between the ERP system and apps used by weighbridge operators

Production

  • Dashboards for real time production recipe redetermination based on chemical analysis of available scrap
  • DIMP implementation to take advantage of cut features for dismemberment of batches spilled from production in case of quality defects
  • Use of combined orders to meet different customer specifications with a single merger
  • Finite capacity scheduling using the SAP PPDS solution
  • Interfacing with external schedulers

MES

  • SAP-MES submission: production orders, deliveries to customer, raw material stock
  • Send MES -SAP: customer delivery pickups; production order advancement and pickup; quality control integration of semi-finished and finished products
  • Interface with external systems (e.g. weights, spectrometers for chemical analysis, external programs,…)
  • Location-based warehouse management, with movement of materials using radio frequency terminals

Quality

  • Quality data recording of incoming material
  • Acceptance control management

Warehouse

  • Batch management by product characteristics
  • Separate valuation of lots to distinguish the cost of each individual scrap load
  • Alternative units of measurement to keep track of physical weight and weight of contained metal as a function of yield coefficient

Sales

  • Management of the customer’s scrap processing process with the relevant yield
  • “Customer card” dashboard for loading and unloading of processing
  • Product Configurator

Finance and controlling

  • Traceability of raw material cost in relation to chemical characteristics and yield
  • Control over vendor contracting to detect inefficiencies and losses in real time
  • Control of production costs through reporting built on a transparent and timely management flow
  • Sales, production and purchasing planning in an integrated system
  • Preparation of consolidated financial statements, ensuring regulatory compliance and facilitating strategic decisions
  • Development of sustainability report and calculation of Carbon Footprint, to turn legislative obligations into competitive advantages

Find out how to digitize your processes!

Optimize production, supply chain and quality control with digital solutions specifically for the aluminum industry.