How BASF manages thousands of supply chain decisions with AlphaEvolve
The agricultural and crop protection supply chain is one of the most intricate networks in the world. It takes up to two years to turn active ingredients into the final products farmers need, and a single change in weather or regulations can disrupt everything. Planners at BASF Agricultural Solutions navigate this reality daily across 180 production sites. To understand how local decisions ripple across their entire global network, BASF turned to AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud to build a digital twin of their supply chain.
Planning across a two-year lead time
BASF Agricultural Solutions manages a network with over 5,000 distinct value chains. Creating a single end product requires a bill of materials that can be over 30 levels deep, moving across different production sites and regions.
Currently, human planners make thousands of local decisions every day. They decide what to produce, when to produce it, and how much safety stock...
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