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Australia's Port Kembla Coal Terminal Selects Quintiq to Maximise Throughput and Coal Chain
Efficiencies
MELBOURNE, Aug 11/ PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling
(APS) solutions, today announced that Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) has
chosen Quintiq to maximize its current capacity capabilities and provide
seamless integration across its coal supply chain. The implementation, being
handled by Quintiq, began in July and will be completed in early 2010.
PKCT, an Australian coal exporting terminal located south of
Sydney on Australia's east coast, handles in excess of 13 million tonnes of
coal annually serving 12 mines. Coal is delivered to Port Kembla via both
road and rail and is stored in a stockyard on site until the cargo is
assembled, reclaimed and taken by conveyor to waiting ships. In 2009, 226
ships were loaded with more than 13.2 million tonnes of coal and almost
400,000 tonnes of coke bound for ports throughout Asia, India and Europe. The
challenges of handling the receipt, storage and dispatch of such large
volumes of coal, including coordinating train and truck unloading, optimal
ship loading and managing onsite storage, together create a highly complex
planning puzzle. Added to this complexity are fluctuations in demands and
resource capacity limitations.
PKCT expects the Quintiq solution to maximize the throughput of
the terminal by increasing the utilization of its stock yard, machinery and
other critical port assets. Moreover, Quintiq will advance the planning
process by automating many planning functions, by shifting PKCT's embedded
knowledge to the planning solution and by providing expert decision support.
The benefits of the system will be organization-wide visibility, increased
planner independence and a more efficient coal supply chain.
The Quintiq solution is an integrated operational planning
solution which provides real time visibility across the Port Kembla Coal
Supply Chain, covering the movement of coal from mine load point to vessel
departures across multiple time horizons. This includes day of operation
scheduling for operational activities and the creation of jobs; operational
planning to maximize throughput on a daily basis; tactical planning to
resolve imbalances in supply and demand on a rolling weekly basis; and
long-term planning to resolve imbalances in supply and demand on a macro
level. The Quintiq solution also provides what-if scenario capabilities so
PKCT can fully understand the consequences of planning decisions on the coal
supply chain.
The integrated solution will enable stakeholders to make informed
decisions on the parts of the supply chain that they control and influence,
and will help PKCT strive for their goal of increasing efficiencies and
visibility across the supply chain.
"We were looking for an advanced planning system that could
handle our complex work environment while also being extremely flexible,"
said Peter Green, General Manager at PKCT. "Quintiq has a proven track record
in the industry and is recognized as highly successful in the field. With
Quintiq, we could get exactly what we needed: a solid solution with
flexibility."
Paul Shepherd, Director of Business Unit Australia and New
Zealand at Quintiq, added: "PKCT's choice of Quintiq has brought us one step
closer to achieving our strategic objective of becoming the leader in bulk
terminal planning and scheduling. We view this as an important market
globally and have built an industry solution tailored to the unique planning
requirements of these organizations. We are pleased that PKCT will reap the
benefits of this unique solution."
About PKCT
Port Kembla Coal Terminal is a coal exporting facility on
Australia's east coast, 72 km south of Sydney. It services two of the
nation's richest coal reserves, the Southern and Western coalfields of New
South Wales, exporting high quality coking and steaming coal to customers
around the world. PKCT is a valued link in the global coal supply chain. For
About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain
management solutions. The fast-growing company established in 1997, offers
software for planning and optimizing complex business processes throughout
the enterprise. The company's headquarters is located in the Netherlands and
it has subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, the UK
SOURCE: Quintiq
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