Our Story
We believe that planning and scheduling is an untapped opportunity
to significantly improve plant and company performance.
Nine years ago, the people behind Phenix started sister company Zinata as a supply chain advisory company. We quickly began to realize that production planning and scheduling at the plant level was a blind spot in the supply chain. Our customers were experiencing major performance losses due to unoptimized changeovers and incorrect inventory levels.
We started to help our customers implement Product Wheel scheduling in Excel, and we typically saw 20 – 30% throughput increases in 3 – 6 months. The problem was that the gains were not sustainable. The Excel-based solutions were brittle and complicated. Rescheduling to accommodate changes was particularly inefficient.
We looked around for suitable scheduling software solutions and, finding nothing, decided to build our own. By 2018 our software solution was ready for production, and we have had customers using it since. So in early 2020, we spun off Phenix Software as a stand-alone entity with the mission to develop the best planning and scheduling software for process manufacturers.
We engaged a team with world-class experience scheduling everything from small production sites to billion-dollar global businesses, and world-class software expertise. We’ve built and proven the best Product Wheel based scheduling software out there. And we’ve introduced Aligned Product Wheels, extending traditional Product Wheels with inventory and production design capabilities.
We make excellence in scheduling accessible to all.
Our customers are up and running in weeks, not months. We’ve taken a fragmented, complex picture and come up with an integrated, easy to understand approach.
Our People
Alan Nall
Head of Delivery
Former P&G, DuPont ,
CI, Supply Chain Integration
John Peberdy
CTO
Former CTO Charly
SaaS architecture expert
Noel Peberdy
Founder and Co-CEO
Founded successful manufacturing
and supply chain advisory companies
Mac Jacob
Head of Product
Former P&G Group Director
Global Supply Network Ops
Eric Van Roekel
Phenix Implementation Consultant
Former P&G Human Resource Director, Value Stream Manager, Materials, Process and Delivery Leader
Peter King
Principal Consultant
Internationally recognized lean
scheduling expert and author
Oleksandr Velykoivanenko
Principal Mathematician
Former P&G supply chain
optimization expert
Tim Ollivier
Sales Executive
Former IAG Consulting, SAP account exec
Kathy Skinner
Phenix Implementation Consultant
Former P&G Global Process Leader for Supply Network Pillar, DRP, and Site Integrated Planner
Tracy Koosiarek
Head of Customer Operations
Former P&G Director Site Supply Chain, Logistics, & Packaging
Tony Alonso
Head of Integration
Former P&G IT Senior Manager
Cheryl Boerjan
Phenix Implementation Consultant
Former P&G Supply Network Operations Director
Phenix Board of Advisors
Mike Wittman
Former VP Supply Chain J&J Consumer, Former Chief Supply Chain Officer, Pinnacle Foods
Peter King
Internationally recognized lean scheduling expert & author, former DuPont lean expert
Doug Lawson
Current CEO at ThinkIQ, experienced entrepreneur with a track record of creating successful businesses
John Theron
Started and grown multiple successful manufacturing software companies
Trevor Miles
PhD in planning, former thought leader and VP Strategy for Kinaxis. Advisor to SAP for supply chain planning
Tony Martins
Accomplished supply chain turnaround artist. Expert in simplification, and breakthrough digital – people capabilities
175+ Years of Combined Expertise in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Improvement
Our team has worked for some of the most respected supply chain organizations, including P&G and DuPont.
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We would love to hear from you! For more information about Phenix Planning and Scheduling and the value it brings to companies like yours, please get in touch.