To better serve its numerous distribution channels, Radeberger Group mapped and optimized its end-to-end supply chain with the Supply Chain Suite from Siemens Digital Logistics.
in creating models and adapting them to changing conditions. This should be achievable within about six months. For the experts at Siemens Digital Logistics, this marks the nal stage of a special project. “We’ve had only a few situations in our long experience where we had to adapt a solution to all the brands of a corporate group and their underlying logistics,” says Simon. With this solution, the Radeberger Group says it is ready to face the challenges of today and tomorrow. “The digital twin gives us the big picture of the entire breadth and depth of our brewery group’s supply chain,” says Wagner. “We can also respond to day-to-day changes and simulate and plan for future changes.” MORE THAN PUTTING OUT FIRES Future operations are simulated in detailed models that can be ne-tuned at any time. This is exactly what the brewery group was looking for. “I need to be able to manage the supply chain, not simply put out res,” says Wagner. “Supply chain disruptions are a recurring and increasingly common problem. So it’s all the more critical that we, as a company, have the capacity to control it.” n
of runs overall, for example, and we were able to obtain secure analytics to shore up our location planning,” says Wagner. Radeberger now uses the tool for two standard applications: to examine and analyze detailed issues (tactical analyses) and to obtain an overview of the highly complex supply chain of the brand portfolio (strategic analyses). The brewery group is now poised to begin rolling out the solution internally. Experts from Siemens Digital Logistics have been conducting in-depth training since fall 2023, providing employees with direct support during implementation. “There have already been several training sessions on the various modules,” says Fabienne Zachwieja, who is working alongside Kay Liebsch to support the SCS implementation and application. “We also planned a workshop with the core team.” The aim is to enable the Radeberger team to use the software independently— developing, adapting, and evaluating their own models and generating reliable simulation results. “The Supply Chain Suite is a powerful tool, which is why we’re still not able to work with it entirely on our own,” Wagner concedes. The plan, however, is for the team to soon be completely autonomous
Siemens provided Radeberger with a demo version to help them understand the software and its mathematical approach. “The demo version allowed us to take our time trying everything out,” says Kay Liebsch, head of supply chain project management at the Radeberger Group. “Before, the idea of working with Supply Chain Suite had still been too much of an abstraction.” QUICK ROLLOUT The digital twin made it possible to quickly generate the rst studies and models. Just six months after the consultation began, Radeberger used SCS to optimize the entire distribution eet and plan several truck hubs near a brewery. The Radeberger Group uses the tool to plan its delivery runs, which by their very nature are constantly changing. The digital twin enables them to scrutinize all downstream effects of each action, examine supply chain capacities and breaking points, and work out every detail—such as how to optimize logistics work ows in brewhouses, tank sites, and storage facilities. “Supply Chain Suite helped us generally optimize outbound deliveries to our network and reduce the number
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