Case Study: Fortune 500 Biopharmaceutical Company achieves 15% increase in capacity utilization with Sigmoid

15% increase in capacity utilization with automated master production schedule

A Fortune 500 biopharmaceutical company turned to Sigmoid to modernize its manually created master production schedules across multiple manufacturing plants. Their planners were spending nearly two full days adjusting schedules to account for fluctuating demand, raw material availability, and safety stock requirements, while also needing site-specific solutions tailored to very different plant constraints.

Sigmoid implemented an automated master production scheduling solution using constraint programming and linear programming models, supported by Google OR-Tools and Amazon SageMaker. The system generated optimized schedules in minutes, delivered near real-time visibility into KPIs, and automatically adjusted plans when conditions changed. As a result, Sigmoid helped the customer achieve a 15% increase in capacity utilization and reduce schedule generation time by about 98%, from more than 30 man-hours to just a few minutes.