Tailored Solutions Instead of Standard ApproachesCustomised planning and optimisation solutions—aligned with the processes, constraints, and objectives of your industry.
Measurable Performance ImprovementsGreater planning reliability, improved resource utilisation, and higher on‑time delivery through data‑driven decision models and clearly defined KPIs.
Implementation as EqualsClose collaboration with business units, IT, and management—ensuring solutions that are widely accepted and deliver sustainable impact.
Hands‑On. Data‑Driven. Impactful.
We analyse your specific planning challenge and develop solutions that are functionally robust, technologically sound, and economically viable—using standard software, custom development, or an intelligent combination of both. In doing so, we draw on our experience from industrial projects and combine methodological expertise with a clear understanding of operational requirements. Our decisions are based on reliable data and clearly defined objectives. We implement pragmatically and in close collaboration with your teams. We measure success by tangible results. Our goal: unlock revenue potential, reduce tied‑up capital, and sustainably manage risk.
+15% more accurate forecasts. –25% supply chain costs.
“Together with MCP, we significantly improved our forecast quality, reduced inventory levels, and sustainably enhanced the stability of our supply chain.”
Head of Supply Chain
Food industry
Process Consulting – Best Practices for Your Supply Chain
We analyse your supply chain with a clear focus: creating transparency, systematically activating economic levers, and making your planning processes structured and controllable.At the core are three key questions:
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Revenue & Costs
Where are you losing revenue—and burning cash unnecessarily?Stockouts, excess inventory, and inaccurate forecasts erode margin every day.We identify economic leakages and prioritise initiatives with measurable impact on results.
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Critical Complexity
What truly matters in your supply chain?We focus on the products, channels, and processes with the greatest impact on performance, service levels, and stability.
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Planning Approach
How can you sustainably improve forecast quality and service levels?With clearly defined KPIs, differentiated inventory strategies, and structured review processes, we establish transparent, robust planning frameworks.
The result: clear decision foundations, stable planning processes, and a supply chain that remains reliably controllable even under volatility.
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Optimised Production Planning Through Algorithms
Mathematical optimisation enables precise and automated production planning. Complex dependencies between orders, resources, and processes are systematically taken into account—resulting in stable, efficient, and realistic production plans.
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Setup Time Optimisation
Optimised detailed scheduling for discrete manufacturing with complex setup and resource dependencies.The algorithm minimises setup times and accounts for varying processing times, parallel production lines, shift calendars, and secondary resources. Complex interdependencies between orders are systematically incorporated.The result: realistic, stable, and significantly more efficient production plans.
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Process Industry Scheduling
Automated and optimised production planning for the process industry.The algorithm accounts for contamination risks, time buffers, incompatible sequences, and the availability of equipment and intermediate storage.This reduces delays, setup effort, and cleaning requirements, ensures balanced resource utilisation, and prevents unplanned downtime.
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Core Resource Assignment
Reliable assignment of critical secondary resources in complex production environments.Production plans are only stable when all required resources—such as kettles, tanks, tools, or intermediate storage—are available and correctly allocated.Mathematical optimisation computes solutions in seconds that clearly outperform manual planning—precise, consistent, and resource‑efficient.
Why MCP?
Operationally effective planning does not arise from software alone.Since 2010, MCP has been developing planning processes, planning systems, and optimization logics for manufacturing companies.Our strength lies in combining mathematical optimization expertise, industrial production reality, and hands-on operational implementation experience. The result is not theoretical concepts, but robust, industry-ready solutions that reliably reflect real-world production and planning processes and stand the test of day-to-day operations.This makes MCP a partner for companies that do not just want to digitalize planning, but want to make it truly controllable.
Deep understanding of real-world production and supply chain environments — from process industries to high-mix manufacturing: More than 300 planning projects successfully implemented underscore our expertise. We understand the requirements, the project challenges and the change management needed to successfully digitise planning.
Extensive experience with constraints in production planning, supply chain planning and mathematical optimisation. We know how to translate real-world requirements into technical solutions and tackle complexity in our projects using optimisation techniques and AI.
Our solutions are developed for real operational conditions—not for theoretical ideal scenarios.
MCP enhances existing planning software by adding operational feasibility, transparency in execution and industrial optimisation logic. With our proprietary solutions, we provide our customers not only with what is technically possible, but also with tools that enable them to respond quickly and easily to changes in their day-to-day operations.
From tank/batch logic to high-mix production — we understand and are familiar with a wide range of production realities and their operational constraints. In addition to incorporating these into the software, we also possess the process expertise needed to ensure that planning solutions provide the ideal support for different production philosophies.
It is not the mathematically optimal plan that determines performance — but the one that can be implemented in practice. As well as focusing on pure optimisation, our solutions are always tailored to our customers’ day-to-day planning needs – whether you need a quick solution in a matter of seconds or want to optimise your global delivery network for several years ahead.
We combine supply chain planning, production planning, workforce management, AI, and shop floor execution into consistent decision architectures.
MCP makes planning operationally effective!We analyze the decisions made at all levels of planning and, together with our clients, develop an integrated decision architecture to enable faster, higher-quality decision-making—taking into account different departments and corporate objectives.