Zyfra: Leading the SCM Revolution

However, small and medium-sized businesses often cannot afford to incorporate expansive technological transformations. Zyfra assists such organisations in seamlessly augmenting their workflow with its powerful and versatile IoT and AI solutions.

Our primary goal is to help clients in enhancing the integrity and reliability of their industrial data, and using it to augment their overall workflow

Zyfra’s offerings are designed to integrate with the digital elements of industrial production and business processes, thus enabling the automation of technology-based operations. By merging the siloed components of the workflow, Zyfra creates an integrated digital production space using AI. To illustrate the unprecedented value Zyfra brings to the SCM space with its robust production and shipping planning (PSP) solution, Smolensky highlights Zyfra’s association with one of the largest oil companies in Russia. This particular company had faced unsurmountable challenges in planning the production, shipping, and distribution of its petroleum products. The management of 60 different petroleum products, more 1000 varying factors affecting the process, and over 2000 points of sales, and the different methods of transportation had made planning a tedious task requiring the efforts of 20 high-skilled specialists. Even though the company conducted the planning process every month, the plans would become outdated during implementation due to the changing market conditions. Even with the integration of off-the-shelf optimization software, the company failed to meet several strict deadlines and incurred high penalties, which often comprised up to 5 percent of the total costs. That was when the company turned to Zyfra. To optimize the planning processes of the oil company, Zyfra implemented the end-to-end shipping a downstream supply chain optimal planning solution through its Zyfra PSP. Consequently, it accelerated the calculations (less than 1 minute instead of 5 hours) and automated planning and scheduling, thus significantly reducing human efforts that went into the planning. Equipped with Zyfra PSP, the oil company was able to create precise daily plans for the next 30 days and 10-day plans for the next 90 days. The resulting optimizations not only enabled the client to cut penalties and decrease overproduction, but also free up the excessively used storage facilities. Thus, Zyfra PSP empowered enterprise-wide cost optimization without long-term capital expenditures.

“We assist our clients in gathering relevant information on every piece of technology they have, and we do that with minimal investment from them,” says Smolensky. To consistently address the needs of clients, Zyfra is investing heavily in the utilisation of emerging data and information technologies. Considering the fact that the automation of the technological process remains low in the manufacturing landscape, Zyfra continues to work toward its goal of increasing the level of automation.