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Business Process Optimization · Dynamic Modeling

Better business decisions through Dynamic Modeling.

We help organizations understand how complex business systems behave before investments or operational changes are implemented. Compare scenarios, quantify business impact and identify the strongest decision instead of relying on isolated assumptions.

  • 16

    anonymised applications

    Documented decision questions from manufacturing, supply chains and service operations.

  • End-to-end

    rather than isolated optimisation

    Dependencies, queues, resources and trade-offs are considered together.

  • Scenarios

    compared before implementation

    Alternatives are tested in the model before time and capital are committed.

Anonymised application portfolio

Dynamic Modeling in Practice

Dynamic Modeling is a business decision platform—not a modeling tool. These examples show the range of documented decision questions and model outputs, not promised or verified client results.

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16 anonymised applications

  • Areas

    Chemical manufacturing

    Production-site capacity and performance

    Business challenge
    How do capacity alternatives affect production volume, margin, unit cost and lead time across the whole system?
    Business outcome tested
    The model compared capacity scenarios and made the interactions between volume, process flow, cost and performance visible.

    Typical KPIs

    • Production volume
    • Margin and EBIT
    • Lead time
    • Variable unit cost
  • Areas

    Plastics production

    Production routing and capacity decisions

    Business challenge
    Which combination of process route, speed, availability, skills and investment supports the most robust production flow?
    Business outcome tested
    The scenarios set routing and capacity levers against their effects on responsiveness, resource use and financial performance.

    Typical KPIs

    • Throughput
    • Revenue and margin
    • Lead time
    • Availability and utilisation
  • Areas

    Chemical supply chain

    Inventory and investment decisions with constrained storage

    Business challenge
    How should inventory, push/pull rules and the timing of additional capacity interact when storage is constrained?
    Business outcome tested
    The model compared replenishment, inventory and investment scenarios and showed their effects on stock, utilisation and delivery flow.

    Typical KPIs

    • Inventory and WIP
    • Lead time
    • Capacity and utilisation
    • Revenue and margin
  • Areas

    Sensor assembly

    Assembly bottleneck and routing analysis

    Business challenge
    Where do resources constrain assembly flow, and in which sequence should process or capacity alternatives be tested?
    Business outcome tested
    The model located constraints, compared solution sequences and made the associated resource loading transparent.

    Typical KPIs

    • Throughput
    • Lead time
    • Resource utilisation
    • Revenue and gross margin
  • Areas

    Metals fabrication

    Constraint-removal sequence

    Business challenge
    Which constraint should be addressed first so that a local change actually supports system flow?
    Business outcome tested
    The simulation made the constraint sequence visible and provided a shared decision basis for prioritising interventions.

    Typical KPIs

    • Throughput
    • Utilisation
    • Bottleneck position
    • Queues
  • Areas

    Aerospace logistics

    Warehouse and supply-concept selection

    Business challenge
    Which push/pull and supply concept fits the process dependencies, system support and required response time?
    Business outcome tested
    The model compared logistics concepts, exposed dependencies and structured the decision about further implementation.

    Typical KPIs

    • Lead time
    • Inventory
    • Utilisation
    • Delivery performance
  • Areas

    Power generation

    Operating model for port and fuel logistics

    Business challenge
    How do unloading, stockpiles, equipment, ordering rules and staffing respond to fluctuating demand and disruption?
    Business outcome tested
    The model quantified operational drivers, located a constraint and compared availability, ordering, staffing and outsourcing scenarios.

    Typical KPIs

    • Vessel waiting and berth time
    • Availability
    • Inventory and quality
    • Shifts and overtime
    • Penalties
  • Areas

    Renewable-energy equipment

    Production and supply-chain responsiveness

    Business challenge
    Which production and inventory rules support short response times across different demand and product structures?
    Business outcome tested
    The scenarios compared network, production and inventory rules and prepared a qualitative steering recommendation.

    Typical KPIs

    • Customer lead time
    • WIP
    • Manufacturing cost
    • Inventory turns
    • Revenue
  • Areas

    Telecommunications service

    From trouble ticket to resolution

    Business challenge
    How do demand, support skills, handoffs and priority rules affect response time and service-target performance?
    Business outcome tested
    The model connected customer requests, skills and handoffs into an end-to-end service flow and compared alternative operating modes.

    Typical KPIs

    • Lead time
    • SLA performance
    • Utilisation
    • Process cost
  • Areas

    Telecommunications after-sales

    Staffing for technical incidents

    Business challenge
    Which staffing and process configuration supports service targets under a variable load of technical incidents?
    Business outcome tested
    The simulation compared staffing and incident flow using consistent service, time and cost indicators.

    Typical KPIs

    • Staffing capacity
    • SLA performance
    • Lead time
    • Cost
  • Areas

    Telecommunications infrastructure

    Central or local data-centre service model

    Business challenge
    How do central and local service configurations compare across cost, utilisation, response time and service quality?
    Business outcome tested
    The model made cross-organisational trade-offs measurable and compared alternative service and responsibility mixes.

    Typical KPIs

    • Cost
    • Utilisation
    • Lead time
    • SLA performance
  • Areas

    Telecommunications IT

    Workplace-device lifecycle

    Business challenge
    Which procurement, replacement and support rules balance availability, capital requirements, cost and lead time?
    Business outcome tested
    The scenarios compared lifecycle policies from a shared cost, availability and process perspective.

    Typical KPIs

    • Devices per employee
    • Capital requirements
    • Lead time
    • Availability
  • Areas

    HR shared services

    Record-to-report productivity

    Business challenge
    How do automation, work allocation and staffing change the flow of recurring HR reporting?
    Business outcome tested
    The model tested automation and staffing scenarios and made their relationship with time, utilisation and service targets visible.

    Typical KPIs

    • Staffing capacity
    • Lead time
    • Utilisation
    • SLA performance
  • Areas

    Telecommunications retail

    Customer flow and staffing in retail

    Business challenge
    How do customer arrivals, waiting, staffing and issue resolution affect walkouts and service performance?
    Business outcome tested
    The simulation connected customer flow with staffing and compared operational changes through consistent service indicators.

    Typical KPIs

    • Walkout rate
    • Customers and sales
    • Waiting time
    • Utilisation
    • Cost
  • Areas

    Telecommunications rollout

    Fibre rollout within a fixed budget

    Business challenge
    Which sequence, skills, contracts and resources support a predictable rollout within the budget envelope?
    Business outcome tested
    The model compared rollout sequences and resource decisions together with budget, speed and quality cost.

    Typical KPIs

    • Connections per period
    • Lead time
    • Cost per connection
    • Material and quality cost
    • Utilisation
  • Areas

    Mobile-network rollout

    Bottleneck and sequence analysis in network rollout

    Business challenge
    Where do process, skills or contracts constrain rollout, and which intervention sequence supports the overall plan?
    Business outcome tested
    The simulation located rollout constraints and compared sequencing, skills and contract alternatives.

    Typical KPIs

    • Lead time
    • Utilisation
    • Rollout throughput
    • Depreciation exposure

The examples are anonymised and summarised qualitatively. They show modeled questions, scenarios and KPI types; they contain no client names, exact project results or performance promises.

Interactive process simulation

See how one decision moves through the entire system.

This simplified digital twin of a chemical production process makes demand, capacity, queues and trade-offs visible. Change an assumption and watch performance and the bottleneck move before investing in the real operation.

Educational model with illustrative values—not a forecast and not client data.

Compare scenarios

Test decision alternatives side by side.

The current state and two alternatives use the same logic. Adjust the alternatives and compare the consequences, not only one metric.

Change the business assumptions

Every control changes the same connected model draft. Changes are marked and recalculated only when you choose “Simulate scenario”.

Fixed comparison baseline

Current State stays unchanged so the differences in Scenario A and B remain comparable.

Demand

Incoming customer orders per day

Machine speed

Speed of the reactor and packaging equipment

Setup time

Capacity lost when changing between products

Machine availability

Productive time remaining after downtime

Additional production line

Parallel capacity at the mixing reactor

Extra storage tank

Additional buffer between reactor and packaging

Priority rule

The sequence in which orders are scheduled

Simulation run

Ready

Simulation day 0.0 · 0%

Timeline progress0%
Playback speed
Active
0
Completed
0
Blocked
0
Discarded
0

End-to-end system map

Orders, material, resources, buffers and deliveries from the same calculated simulation run.

Current bottleneck

No active bottleneck

  1. Demand & orders

    Customer Orders

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 48
    Utilisation
    0%
    • customer-orders:primary Idle

    Trend

    • Planning
  2. Planning

    Production Planning

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 48
    Utilisation
    0%
    • Planning gate Idle

    Trend

    • Material
  3. Procurement & raw material

    Raw Material

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 72
    Utilisation
    0%
    Level
    0 / 72
    • Raw-material feed A Idle
    • Raw-material feed B Idle

    Trend

    • Reactor
  4. Parallel production

    Mixing Reactor

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 40
    Utilisation
    0%
    • MP reactor Idle

    Trend

    • Tanks
  5. Buffers & tanks

    Storage Tanks

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 60
    Utilisation
    0%
    Level
    0 / 60
    • Tank V1 Idle

    Trend

    • Packaging
  6. Packaging

    Packaging

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 40
    Utilisation
    0%
    • Packaging LTC2 Idle
    • Packaging LTC4 Idle

    Trend

    • Warehouse
  7. Finished-goods warehouse

    Warehouse

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 84
    Utilisation
    0%
    Level
    0 / 84
    • Warehouse handling Idle

    Trend

    • Shipping
  8. Shipping & customer

    Shipping

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 40
    Utilisation
    0%
    • Shipping dock A Idle
    • Shipping dock B Idle

    Trend

    • Customer
  9. Shipping & customer

    Customer

    Idle
    Queue
    0 / 48
    Utilisation
    0%
    • customer:primary Idle

    Trend

One change, multiple consequences.

Every KPI is calculated from the same simplified model, revealing impact and trade-offs together.

Throughput
0.0 batches/day
Lead Time
—
Work In Progress
0 batches
Machine Utilization
0 %
Service Level
—
Variable cost per unit
—
EBIT
0 k€/month
Bottleneck Location
—
  • We do not guess.
  • We simulate before you invest.
  • Test alternative decisions before implementing them.
  • Identify bottlenecks before they become expensive.
  • Understand system behaviour instead of optimizing isolated activities.

From modelling into engineering

Validate automation potential across the entire system

Dynamic Modeling shows how automation affects throughput, lead time, WIP, cost and bottlenecks before engineering and investment decisions are made.

  • 01

    Throughput

  • 02

    Lead time

  • 03

    WIP

  • 04

    Cost

  • 05

    Bottlenecks

Methodology

Six steps from business question to recommendation.

The method keeps objectives, assumptions and alternatives traceable. Each step sharpens the decision that has to be made before implementation.

  1. Step 01

    Preparation

    Collect available process knowledge and data, involve the right contributors and define the operating context.

  2. Step 02

    Define Objectives

    Name the management decision, the intended outcome and the criteria used to compare scenarios.

  3. Step 03

    Build Baseline Model

    Represent the current process and its assumptions so the starting point can be reviewed together.

  4. Step 04

    Create Target Scenarios

    Describe credible changes to process, demand, capacity or investment for comparison.

  5. Step 05

    Simulate Alternatives

    Run the scenarios through the model and examine bottlenecks, waiting times, performance and trade-offs.

  6. Step 06

    Recommend Best Solution

    Compare the evidence against the agreed objectives and recommend the strongest route forward.

Decision gate

The recommendation creates a clear handoff into implementation.

A selected target scenario becomes the basis for project, process and product management, Digital Delivery and subsequent operations. If the evidence is not yet sufficient, the scenario can be revised before implementation cost is committed.

Engagement stages

Start at the level your question needs.

Problem Check, Model Blueprint and Modeling Sprint build on one another. The right entry point depends on how clearly the problem, objective and available data are already described.

  1. Problem Check

    Purpose
    Clarify the operational problem, the decision at stake and whether Dynamic Modeling is the right next step.
    Result
    A focused problem statement and a recommendation for the next engagement stage.
  2. Model Blueprint

    Purpose
    Define objectives, model boundaries, available inputs and the scenarios that need to be compared.
    Result
    An agreed blueprint for the baseline model, target scenarios and simulation work.
  3. Modeling Sprint

    Purpose
    Build the baseline, create target scenarios, simulate alternatives and prepare the management recommendation.
    Result
    A comparison of alternatives and a recommendation for the implementation decision.

From idea to delivery

Validate before implementation begins.

Ideation shapes the concept. Business Process Optimization tests its behaviour. Project, Process & Product Management governs the decision into execution, and Digital Delivery builds the chosen target state.

The path into implementation

Four connected stages: Ideation & Concept Development, Business Process Optimization using Dynamic Modeling, Project, Process & Product Management and Digital Delivery.

  1. Ideation & Innovation

  2. Business Process Optimization

  3. Project, Process & Product Management

  4. Digital Delivery

One partner across the lifecycle

The model ends with a decision delivery can use.

Documented objectives, assumptions and target scenarios become the decision basis for governance and delivery. The complete Somos-Co lifecycle then continues through operations, hosting and continuous improvement.

Choose your starting point

Bring us the business question—not a software specification.

Together, we will determine whether a Problem Check, Model Blueprint or Modeling Sprint is the right next move.