Solutions by industry / Food & beverage
Five filling lines planned in minutes, zero manual planning
A beverage manufacturer replaced weekly manual scheduling with an automated engine that builds a plant-wide production plan in minutes and explains every decision in plain language.
The challenge
A weekly plan built by hand from five to seven systems
Every week, production, planning and maintenance leads cross-referenced sales forecasts, stock levels, machine states and order books from five to seven disconnected systems, with no single source of truth.
Planning by hand created four recurring problems:
What was going wrong
- Manual scheduling every week: slow, error-prone and impossible to scale.
- Filling lines idle or in the wrong sequence, wasting capacity the plant already pays for.
- Avoidable stoppages, and short-shelf-life SKUs overproduced and scrapped.
- Costly weekend shifts whenever the week's plan slipped.
Our approach
Three layers: one data model, a solver, a clear decision
Schedules are generated automatically, and every decision can be explained.
Unified data pipeline
Stock, sales forecasts, machine states and order books from five to seven systems merge into one clean schema: a single source of truth.
Optimisation engine
An OR-Tools CP-SAT constraint solver sequences every order against the plant's real constraints, targeting line utilisation, on-time delivery and waste.
Decision-ready interface
Planners see the proposed schedule, compare scenarios side by side and validate with one click. Every plan comes with a plain-language rationale.
The outcome
The plan builds itself; the lines run fuller
With 100% of scheduling automated and zero manual planning effort.
0 emergency shifts
No more Saturday shifts to catch up on orders.
Higher line utilisation
Fewer idle hours across all five lines: paid-for capacity is actually used.
Fewer stoppages
Smart sequencing cuts avoidable downtime and the firefighting that comes with it.
Less waste
Short-shelf-life SKUs are produced to demand, not scrapped.
Built on the Wizata platform
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