The Benefits of Decision Support Systems (DSS)

An InterDynamics Decision Support System benefits your business by analysing complex systems as a whole as opposed to individual components or silos. This enables you to investigate and understand the complex interactions at interfaces where system losses commonly occur.

Another way a decision support system benefits your business is through applying the deep knowledge of our developer team to your operation. The broad experience and expertise of our team covers many industries which means we speak your language. When you engage with InterDynamics you get:

• a software toolkit including simulation, AI, data analysis and optimisation
• a focus on practical solutions that will be useful given real world uncertainties
• the ability to animate time based activities and situations
• corporate data converted into animated visualisations
• discovery and mitigation of risk
• simulations to investigate and justify alternative strategies, equipment acquisitions, resource allocation options and more.

You will also gain a deeper understanding of your operation as we take you on a journey that explores your processes in detail

Decision Support Systems remove the guesswork from your planning process. A business with many moving parts has a wide range of variables. Process times can fluctuate, assets can break down or perform multiple tasks. Example industries where a decision support system has helped include:

• Rail operations modeling for a below rail customer to determine infrastructure upgrades required as throughput increased
• Pit to Port supply chain model that gave the customer the ability to test and create monthly plans factoring in recent performance and reliability across a port, rail network and a host of mines.
• Port logistics model that could test berth and channel capacity while also testing truck and rail landside movements and terminal storage requirements

Our systems let all of your possible parameters be varied to enable you to create endless scenarios. A supply chain model will allow you to answer questions such as:

• Will larger trucks increase throughput?
• Will larger stockpiles reduce queuing?
• What is the capacity of our supply chain?
• How much does variation cost us?
• Where is our system bottleneck?
• Can we respond to significant interruptions?

We understand that not all companies have the resources to configure and run complex logistics models. InterDynamics not only creates models but also have the ability to run your scenarios, analyse results and create reports as required.

Through the process of creating your Decision Support System we learn how your operation works which gives us the ability to become your trusted analysts. We have performed this role for several clients who needed answers but couldn’t spare the people or just didn’t have the right skillset available. Our knowledge of your business and our systems makes InterDynamics a valuable resource that can be called upon when you need help.