World: Quintiq, global provider of supply chain planning and optimisation, has announced that Lafarge has chosen Quintiq software to optimise sales and operations planning and transport management.
The company will benefit from the Quintiq software platform across the entire organisation for demand planning, supply chain planning and transport optimisation. All cement, aggregates and concrete business lines in all countries in which Lafarge operates will be able to implement this system. The solution will reduce production and transport costs while increasing customer satisfaction.
Real-time collaboration between Lafarge planners will also improve the quality and transparency of the planning process. The use of a single platform for all planning applications will simplify Lafarge's IT landscape. The flexibility of Quintiq's optimisation technology enables the solution to be used to cover all country-specific business requirements.