xOPT Digital Twin Platform

What does xOPT do?

xOPT takes imperfect data and fixes it, provides a digital twin of your supply chain and models scenarios to find the best option(s) with highest profitability across your company .

xOPT Platform components

The xOPT platform leverages its customers’ imperfect transaction data, fixes discrepancies using Artificial lntelligence (Al) and Machine Learning (ML) technology, builds an end-to-end material flow (Supply Chain Digital Twin) and empowers customers to make data-driven decisions that maximize profitability and efficiency.

Functional modules

xACT: The user-friendly interface designed to facilitate seamless interactions. It comprises:

  • Designer: Tailor your supply chain model using customer-specific data.

  • Scenario Manager: Effortlessly define, manage, and execute scenarios.

  • IBP Module: An advanced extension for integrated business planning, enabling users to set cadences, schedule scenario runs, and define time periods with desired granularity.

xOPT Model Engine: The heart of the software. Here, your supply chain model is stored, maintained, and executed, ensuring accurate and efficient simulations.

xBIT: Our state-of-the-art business intelligence tool. After running scenarios, visualize the outcomes using a variety of standardized reports, offering a clear insight into your supply chain's performance.

Optimisation from chaos

Find efficiencies between customer service levels and cost to serve when there is a lack of trust in your data.

Key advantages

One of the key advantages of xOPT is its powerful simulation capabilities. By simulating various scenarios, xOPT enables you to explore different options and identify the most profitable strategies across your entire company. Unlike traditional optimization approaches, xOPT goes beyond simply finding the global optimum. It takes into account realistic options, allowing for guided step-by-step transitions to an optimal state through actionable steps.

With xOPT, you can trust the simulation results. By reconciling the simulation against your management accounts, xOPT ensures accuracy and builds confidence in the outcomes. It achieves this by running demand from a past period through the simulation and comparing the financial results against the actual profit and loss (P&L) accounts. The model is calibrated to deliver simulation results within a 3% range of the real financials, providing a robust foundation for strategic decision making.

Fully attributed costing and activity-based costing

Fully attributed costing and activity-based costing bring significant benefits to your organization. By accurately attributing costs to each product, customer, and process, you can identify profitable opportunities and take action accordingly. This level of visibility empowers you to optimize your pricing strategies, streamline operations, eliminate waste, and focus on high-margin products and customers. With xOPT's fully attributed costing capabilities, you gain a comprehensive understanding of your supply chain's financial performance and can uncover hidden opportunities for growth and Profitability.

By utilizing activity-based costing, xOPT derives a precise cost model from transaction data. This approach provides a granular understanding of costs and allows you to identify inefficiencies, optimize resource allocation, and eliminate bottlenecks. With xOPT's accurate cost model, you gain a deeper understanding of the cost drivers in your supply chain, enabling you to make strategic decisions that improve profitability and competitiveness.

Advantages of simulations for strategic decision making

The advantages of simulations for strategic decision making are numerous. Simulations offer a safe and controlled environment to test various scenarios without incurring real-world risks or disruptions. They enable you to explore the impact of changes, such as market demand fluctuations, pricing strategies, capacity adjustments, and supply chain disruptions. By simulating different possibilities, you can evaluate the potential outcomes, assess risks, and make informed decisions that align with your business objectives.

Unique value proposition

  • The scenarios show profit by looking across the entire organisation using a digital twin.

  • A key part of building trust is through our validation process against the management accounts. The other key part of building trust is providing different views for functional areas based on the same model . This helps a company achieve buy in to key recommendations from the model.

  • Continuous monitoring of benefits realisation using automated data ingestion.

  • We take imperfect data from any source and fix, complete it and curate.

xOPT data insights

  • S&OP Exec Summary

  • Financials

  • Demand

  • Transport

  • Production

  • Inventory

  • DIFOTIS

Activity Based Costing

How does xOPT use and support ABC?

Activity Based Costing is a means to attribute the cost of all the activities involved in making a supply of goods to a customer.

This includes (but not limited to)

  • Procuring any components or ingredients

  • Manufacturing processes

  • Inventory holding costs

  • Goods receiving and dispatching

  • Cost of distribution and delivery

  • An attribution of the cost of other overheads that support these activities

For each Product, Location and Period we establish a Fully Attributed Cost (FAC).

The FAC can be set against the revenue for a sale in that period and location to establish the contribution margin for that supply.

Example for 1 product at 1 location for first period

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