The Company

Cisaplast S.p.A. is a company specialized in the design and production of glass doors and accessories for commercial refrigeration.

Expertise, dynamism, and the ability to meet the needs of each customer today position the company as a valued partner to some of the world’s most prestigious refrigeration manufacturers.

1962 – 2012: Three generations serving refrigeration: for fifty years, Cisaplast has been a major player in the refrigeration market.

Today, this experience, combined with the constant drive to innovate, allows the company to offer exclusive and unique products aimed at ensuring excellent performance while significantly reducing energy consumption, all while fully respecting the environment, a factor that has become increasingly important not only in commercial sectors.

The company’s mission is clear: to continue these values daily, offering the market high-quality products, technical improvement, and consistently effective, timely service.

The Context

“To best support our business growth strategy, we needed to enhance the software tools for Planning and Scheduling of the Supply Chain,” says Paolo Spigardi, IT Manager at Cisaplast.

In particular, it was essential for the organization to:

• Have a system that enables timely “diagnosis” of any delays in customer deliveries to ensure a high level of service (and identify the cause

of the delay: Which resource is causing it?)

• Have a work schedule for all production departments and a clear view of the load on machine tools and assembly departments
• Collect real-time production data and progress updates to ensure accurate scheduling of both internal and external resources (Contractors) and to monitor the performance of the factory in real-time.

The Solution

“So, already in 2008, after a software selection process, we decided to implement COMPASS¹⁰ by Plannet.” “Cisaplast operates with a mixed MTS (Make To Stock) and MTO (Make To Order) model; the new software is integrated with the ERP system (on AS400 platform), from which all technical product data (bill of materials and item records) and market demand (customer orders and forecasts) are acquired. While the Compass¹⁰ system defines the production cycles and all data related to finite capacity constraints, primarily concerning plant and material availability.”

On a daily basis, the Planning Department processes the production schedules and returns confirmed and released production and purchase proposals to the central ERP system. The production schedule is made visible and accessible to operators directly on touch-screen panels placed in the production departments. Additionally, all production documentation related to ongoing or scheduled orders (drawings, component lists, product images) can be consulted. Through simple and guided procedures, operators declare data related to key production events (start of work, end of work, start of downtime, etc.).

The Results

“Cisaplast’s planning process is now much more efficient, flexible, and responsive.

The time spent on preparing production and purchase plans has been significantly reduced, thanks to the system’s rapid

processing and its simulation and scenario analysis capabilities,” says Paolo Spigardi.

“Next steps will involve direct integration with the PLCs of the robotic gluing islands in order to automatically collect production data,” concludes Paolo Spigardi.