Logistics to get materials going

Software to optimize warehouse and transport management between lines and plants

Be it slabs, tubes, heavy plates, billets, coils or other products - the PSImetals Logistics software optimizes product stocks, supports the improved utilization of existing warehouse capacities, optimizes all internal transports at both ends of production facilities, and makes decisions for the optimum use of the means of transport available in each case.

Therefore costs can be reduced and the throughput can be increased by an optimized warehouse and transport management between lines and plants.

The following areas are covered:

Transport Management
Yard Management
Shipping, planning and execution
Material location tracking
Planning logistics networks

Available for:

Flat products: slabs, heavy plates and coils
Long products: tubes, billets, wire rods and others

100% accurate inventory

10% throughput increase

99% line availability

100% location tracking

WHAT ARE YOUR BENEFITS?

Intuitive User Guidance, Faster Workflows

Ensure precise material locating and tracking
Minimize material movements
Provide the feeding of material to the lines in time
Increase throughput by optimizing transport decisions

Reduce downtimes
Monitor business processes by logistic KPI's
Achieve flexibility in storage strategies
Support automated production (e.g. automatic cranes)

Material Location Tracking with PSImetals

Transport management for different material types and units
Access to material position in the yard at any time
Process guidance with technical instructions
Embeddable radar applications, load detections, bar code scan, etc.

Yard Management with PSImetals

Yard overview allowing position check for all materials at any time
Tracking of means of transport in the yard
Extendable full yard configuration
Logical grouping of locations according to their usage

Transport Management with PSImetals

Configurable rules to organize transports depending on material characteristics, availability, schedules and vehicles
Resulting in minimized transports and higher throughput of the material
In-time supply to lines by transport prioritization

Shipping Planning & Execution with PSImetals

Management of shipping orders
Automatic material assignment
Loading execution according to transport rules
Optimization of external transports to customers and service centers

Planning & optimizing logistics networks with PSIglobal

Analysis and evaluation of existing or planned logistics structures
Creation of virtual future scenarios
Overview of all logistics costs
Link to free OSM geographic data
Calculation of optimal logistics service provider mix

WHY PSI?

Benefit from the Market Leader for Production Management in Metals

[Translate to English:] Logistics: Component Module

Optimized for metal specific yards and transports, like piling and stacking of plates, slabs, coils, etc.
More than 45 years of experience with logistic systems in the metals industry combined with PSI's expertise for transparent material flows and efficient logistics management
Standalone or fully integrated in the PSImetals product family for a comprehensive production management combining SCM, APS and MES
Standard interfaces for location tracking systems (e.g. Radar Systems, GPS)
Full access of all services by mobile devices
Artificial Intelligence at PSI: Choosing the best mix for industrial questions combining Neural Networks, advanced Fuzzy Logic and Operations Research
Java-based software technology for a high configurability and intuitive user interfaces including 2D or 3D visualization, optimized for daily tasks in steel and aluminum production

Selected reference customers:

Contact person

Swetlana Maschinez
Marketing Manager
Dircksenstraße 42-44
10178 Berlin
smaschinez@psi.de

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