PearlChain

PearlChain is a software and service company offering customer-specific real-time planning and execution solutions.

In 2004, the need arose in the automotive industry to plan business processes over the long term and to adapt them easily in the short term, as suppliers needed to be found abroad for cost reduction purposes. Both visibility over the suppliers and over the own business processes were needed. This resulted in a unique chain of orders ('pearls'), where each order has its own place in the chain. It was here that PearlChain was founded. PearlChain developed the idea of real-time planning and execution, leading to a production flow of over nine days in full visibility. Material costs as well as inventory dropped significantly. Since 2004, PearlChain implemented and refined the same Real-Time planning principles in a wide range of industries, a.o. the production-, maritime- and construction industry.