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VirtECS® PlanIt


Project Portfolio Optimization

VirtECS PlanIt is a project portfolio analysis package which provides powerful capabilities for portfolio optimization, simulation and risk assessment, and exploratory data analysis. VirtECS PlanIt organizes the data you need to make informed decisions, simulates a large number of scenarios to mitigate uncertainty, and optimizes project selection in a manner guided by the analyst. VirtECS PlanIt handles very detailed project plans and large pipelines with unrivaled speed and power.

VirtECS PlanIt modules can be implemented at many levels in a project or pipeline and these different levels can be coordinated so strategic and tactical decisions are consistent. This system can be used with spreadsheets and commonly available project management software so that users can manage their data in a comfortable environment. VirtECS PlanIt can be used for strategic planning and can take advantage of as much, or little, information as is available. VirtECS PlanIt takes the guesswork out of the dizzying combination of decisions and allows management to focus on strategy and see its consequences in detail. The heart of VirtECS PlanIt is an optimization engine that is powerful enough to manage thousands of tasks automatically.


How Can VirtECS® PlanIt Increase Your Portfolio Value?

Rational Portfolio Selection

Selection of projects for a portfolio is a difficult process due to uncertainty, lack of good analytical tools, unclear metrics, and competing resources. VirtECS PlanIt addresses these difficulties head-on to help maximize the value of your portfolio


Multiple Resource Constraints

Simple techniques are effective when there is only a single resource and single value metric with no competing strategic factors. Optimization subject to multiple resource constraints and non-financial constraints pose a major challenge. The proprietary engine in VirtECS PlanIt excels under these difficult conditions.


Leverage Your Judgment

No one wants a set of equations to make their decisions for them. VirtECS PlanIt was designed to leverage your unique business judgment by allowing you to impose your own decision, constraints and preferences, to provide strategically guided optimization. Let the powerful automation of VirtECS PlanIt provide insight to guide your key decisions.


Manage Uncertainty

Dealing with uncertainty is not an afterthought for VirtECS PlanIt. It was designed from the start to let you manage technical & market uncertainty, as well as data which is less than perfect.


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Benefits | Features

Lilly Uses VirtECS® STAR

This journal article describes the use of VirtECS as an enhanced capacity management system. In this implementation, VirtECS draws data from SAP. In general, VirtECS can draw data from a variety of sources.

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VirtECS® Scheduler Designs Bristol-Myers Squibb Biologics Facility

A journal article from Biopharm International demonstrating the use of mathematical programming methods for automated generation of production schedules in a large industrial biologics facility.

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VirtECS® Scheduler Gets Folgers Coffee Plant Back in Business

Technology developed by West Lafayette-based Advanced Process Combinatorics, Inc., a Purdue Research Park company, has helped Procter & Gamble Co. get its massive coffee manufacturing facility in New Orleans back in business.

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Have Questions?

Feel free to contact APC with general questions, to discuss a decision problem in detail, or to see a demo of a product.

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