Case Study: Nampak (Africa’s leading packaging company) achieves fast, profitable decision-making with AIMMS’ optimization solution

AIMMS Enables Fast, Profitable Decision-Making at Nampak

Nampak Glass, the bottling division of Africa’s leading packaging company Nampak, operates a world-class plant in Roodekop, South Africa. Increasing product variety, demand volatility and the need for tighter production alignment exposed the limits of Excel-based scheduling — the team needed faster, more advanced planning that could handle complex optimization and quantify the financial impact of decisions.

Nampak implemented GOBSS, a custom scheduling and optimization solution built with AIMMS and Districon. The tool lets schedulers, sales and management evaluate and optimize profit-focused scenarios and trade-offs (service level, profit, changeovers), respond quickly to market and production changes, quantify planning changes financially, and capture clear ROI from improved planning.

Nampak

Paul Combe

Supply Chain Director, Nampak Glass