Our roots - your advantage

ChainScope solutions and services enable businesses to improve supply chain processes and to deliver measurable business value. We optimize supply chains for our customers by developing software and expert consultancy that will perform in terms of value, time and money. Our roots lie at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. ChainScope´s expertise to design competitive supply chains and innovative inventory policies derives form more than 10 years of leading edge research and development and industry partnership by Prof. Dr. A.G. de Kok and his team. On the basis of this experience ChainScope provides professional solutions and services that add value to company processes, in line with the business strategy. By clustering knowledge, expertise and software development we have build up a solid software and consultancy proposition. An experienced and specialized board together with highly qualified personnel and dedicated partners throughout the World form the platform for the success of ChainScope.
 
Scientific-Technological Aspects
Our business centers around an improved algorithm to coordinate (long) supply chains such that delivery performance is achieved with lowest possible integral inventory costs. The algorithm is based on advanced Stochastic Theory and outperforms significantly the commonly used Material Requirements Planning logic. Software has been developed and used in real-world environments and significant financial benefits are indicated. Superior SCM solutions improve service levels and due-date performance, reduce lead times, work-in process and stock levels, higher flexibility, efficient capacity use, less staff involvement, synchronize material procurement, and more. In recent years it was recognized that a better management of resource constraints, customer preferences, complex material flows and production processes could possibly be accomplished by the use of more advanced mathematical algorithms. This led to the introduction of so-called APS’s (Advanced Planning Systems). The standard MRP logic, however, has significant flaws in its mechanism for co-coordinating long and volatile supply chains. Our algorithm improves on the co-ordination mechanisms.
 
Technological innovative elements
Only since a decade standard software has become available for supply chain inventory optimization with a scientific basis. This scientific basis is essential, as the inventory pa-rameters calculated by this type of applications have an immediate impact on both balance sheet and day-to-day customer satisfaction. Recent research has revealed that tactical optimization should not be separated from the operational ways of working supported by ERP and APS systems. At TU/e, a team headed by Prof. Ton de Kok has worked for years on developing a SCM model that gives due recognition to the stochastic nature of long and volatile chains. Advanced probability theory has been applied in modelling complex (diverging, converging, extended, uncertain) supply chains. In simulation experiments the new SCM model performs significantly better than traditional models. The new SCM models have also been tested and further developed in practice.