Tube Manufacturer has Better Scheduling in the Pipe

Vallourec, a French company with a number of manufacturing sites, make low carbon Ni-Cr-Mo steel tube mainly for the automotive industry, more than two thirds of which is exported all over the world. Processing takes place at three sites, Saint Florentine, Vitry-le-Francois and Laigneville with production totalling around 75-85 tons of steel every day, equivalent to 15 kilometres of tube.

"Our production plan was very much a manual process based on fixing orders for a period of five weeks ahead and calculating the expected capacity available from our tube lines at each of the plants" says Arnuad Haquin who is responsible for logistics. "It took management a lot of time to deal with problems, and updating the schedule, and we needed a tool to help give us better visibility so we could improve the delivery service to our customers".