Multi-Mix^® features

• Simultaneously considers up to three sets of price and availability levels for each raw material; buying, stock and sales

• Advises whether to buy, sell or use ingredients, and reports trading profits/losses from sales

• One-touch interactive editing and re-optimization

• Detailed difference reports for comparison of the effects of changes using two solutions stored; current and previous

• Parametric option explores  alternative solutions and price changes on any market cost, purchase cost or selling price for any ingredient

• Fixed formulas may be specified so that ingredients required to make them are included in the overall allocation and purchasing decisions.

• Allocates scarce and disposes of surplus raw materials at overall least-cost

• Reduces raw material substitutions

• Optimizes with up to 10,000 products, and is around 25 times faster than previous versions of Format software

• 100 Time periods / data sets may be stored

• Provides full on-screen results and analysis

• Maintains production with limited resources

• A strategic planning tool to evaluate cost benefits of plant investment

Significant cost-saving benefits are routinely found using Multi-Mix® due to its powerful evaluation facilities and the way in which it helps in purchasing and capital investment decisions.

A typical edit screen from the Overall file is shown below.  In this screen, the Buying usage, cost and minimum and maximum availability of each material is shown -

Entering a new cost or tonnage level, then pressing Enter will immediately re-optimize the solution.  Differences between the solutions may then be compared.

The following screen image shows the results from a 5 step parametric optimization in Multi-Mix®.

 

In Multi-Mix® cost parametrics, the cost of the Sunflower has been modified in equal steps and 5 Multi-Mix® solutions derived for each cost to show how the RMs usage will change as cost change.