{"id":10679,"date":"2025-06-19T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g7techservices.com\/site\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:45:55","slug":"alpura-milk-production-and-balance-planning-tool-pyplan-g7-tech-services-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g7techservices.com\/site\/alpura-milk-production-and-balance-planning-tool-pyplan-g7-tech-services-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"ALPURA: The Milk Production and Balance Planning Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ALPURA is one of the five most important dairy companies in Mexico. It has a portfolio of more than 200 products that it manufactures in its three plants. ALPURA sells more than 100 million kiloliters of dairy products monthly. <\/strong>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plants<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Product Families<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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200+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SKUs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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150+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dairy production ranches<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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100 million+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Milk production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

For this dairy giant, we developed the \u201cMilk Balance\u201d<\/strong> – a comprehensive Production Planning<\/strong> solution.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the words of Ricardo Cueto, Head of Business Planning and Optimization, the main challenge that Alpura faced was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe need to automate data analysis processes and other procedures to answer a fundamental question: What are the constraints on our milk supply in the short to medium term?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Milk Balance<\/strong> was developed as a solution to the problem. To provide a solution to this ALPURA requirement we developed a tool that solved the two central concerns raised:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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