• True optimization by automatically creating patterns and cutting plans (LP=Linear Programming, robust solver)
• Optimally combine orders
• Easy to learn with innovative user interface
• Visually appealing and clear graphical user interface

• Reduce trim loss/waste with the help of trim optimization
• Minimize setup times by assigning penalty costs for knife changes
• Produce the optimum quantity to best serve your customers
• Reduce stock with integration of existing stock, production or purchases as part of the optimization
• Avoid mistakes by integrating checks on order attributes and technical restrictions of your resources

• Integration in PP/DS (APO) heuristics
• Integration in PP/DS detailed planning board
• Integration in MES CAT: automatically creates new cutting plans during running production if needed
• Display cutting plans using combined orders in SAP standard
• Optional and binary optional planning of orders (stock supplement, future orders)
• Single stage for reel and sheet (simplex, multiplex)
• Multiple stage optimization
• Existing stock and planned production or purchases are accounted for
• Quality Trim: takes defects of existing stock into account automatically during optimization
• Automatically create sets of solutions, in dialogue or background
• Create and compare multiple solutions by varying penalty costs or technical restrictions

TRIM SUITE is a full-featured optimization application for creating patterns and cutting plans for reels, sheet, corrugated products, and long products. It is an exceptionally efficient tool for trim optimization.

TRIM SUITE is an application running inside SAP, based on SAP technology. In SAP PPDS Trim Suite is offered as a heuristic that can be utilized from any planning application such as detailed planning board, product view, or planning run. Combined orders are created as a result to reflect what dimensions and quantities will be produced in parallel. Cutting patterns are stored with respect to those combined orders. Cutting patterns are integrated with a Manufacturing Execution System such as MES CAT.

TRIM SUITE allows optional and binary optional planning of orders, single-level and multi-level optimization (primary and secondary cutting operations). It automatically considers existing stock during optimization and, in the case of quality trimming, defects in existing stock. It supports the production planner by automatically creating sets of solutions and by creating and comparing multiple solutions.

Planning processes in Excel are error-prone and time-consuming. TRIM SUITE provides easy, efficient, and fast trim optimization by automatically creating patterns and cutting plans with one click - it supports production planning to optimally combine orders. TRIM SUITE is easy to learn with an innovative user interface and has a visually appealing and clear graphical user interface that makes trim optimization a simple task.

The benefits of using TRIM SUITE for trim optimization include reducing trim loss and/or waste with best-in-class planning functionality, minimizing setup times by assigning penalty costs for knife changes, maximizing production efficiency and resource utilization, producing the optimum quantity to best serve the customer, reducing inventory by integrating existing inventory, production, or purchases as part of the optimization, and avoiding errors by integrating checks on order attributes and technical limitations of resources.

TRIM SUITE can be used for trim optimization in reel and sheet production, e.g., in paper, board, film, metals, and fiber production. Trim optimization also enables efficient and sustainable production of long products such as profiles, tubes or poles cut from any type of material.

Beside the functional benefits (quality of optimization results, full coverage of detailed technical requirements) there are benefits for an IT perspective and from a user perspective.

For users/business: Trim Suite is fully integrated into SAP’s planning application and is just another planning feature (in PPDS: another heuristic) within SAP standard. Planners start trimming from their main planning applications, they stay inside their SAP system (same look and feel), and results from trim optimization are automatically modelled within SAP planning by using SAP standard features. There is no logon to any other software tool, no data transfer, no delay, no loss of data.

From an IT perspective a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) is a main advantage. No additional hardware/servers are needed for trim optimization, as Trim Suite is running entirely on the SAP technology stack. Installation and setup are also done in fully alignment to SAP standard (master data and customizing). Even project specific enhancements are done in alignment with SAP’s enhancements concept (Appends, BAdI), and can even be done by IT staff on customer side.

The implementation of T.CON's TRIM SUITE usually takes about one week. This depends on the complexity of the project and the existing systems. Our expert consultants are available to work with you to ensure a smooth implementation process.

Yes, TRIM SUITE is long product ready and works with Long Product Planning.

T.CON's TRIM SUITE is the optimal solution for companies looking for a comprehensive optimization application for creating patterns and cutting plans for reel and sheet goods. The suite is designed to help reduce trim loss/waste and minimize setup times. It can also create combined orders, produce optimum quantities, reduce overall inventory costs, reduce inventory, and eliminate errors. Companies in the millwork industry, as well as those producing one-dimensional products such as rods, tubes, and profiles, can benefit from this software.

TRIM SUITE works with both SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. It can be utilized within PPDS as a planning heuristic. It can be utilized in PP from the production order information system.