Book a 30-minute Resilience Review One Plan, Every Source. One optimized, defensible production plan across every source you operate. Production Planning covers the horizon between real-time control and the capital plan, on the same model and with the same numbers. Take a 4-minute self assessment Production Planning AQUADVANCED® Water Supply Reservoirs Groundwater Imports Desalination Reuse Reservoirs Groundwater Imports Desalination Reuse One plan, every source. Optimized, defensible
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Real-time control • SCADA, automated scheduling, closed-loop control

Days to 3 years

Production planning • Where this tool works

10+ years

Strategic planning • Master plan, capital program, resource availability

The Planning Horizon Between Control & Capital

SUEZ operates water and wastewater systems for communities around the world. Optimatics has delivered planning work for utilities in more than 30 countries.

Across all of it, the same gap keeps appearing. The next 30 minutes are well covered. SCADA and real-time control handle it. The next ten years are well covered too, in the master plan and the capital program. The horizon in between, days out to three years, usually sits with one or two experienced people, a spreadsheet, and a monthly meeting.

That is not a criticism of how utilities work. It is a genuinely hard problem, and experienced planners solve it well. They also solve it slowly, which means it gets solved once a cycle rather than ten times.

Seven Conditions We See Most Often

These come up repeatedly in the systems we work on. If several look familiar, the self-assessment will show you where planning effort would pay back first.

  • 1
    You run more than three sources, and they do not behave the same way from one year to the next.
  • 2
    Your one- to three-year plan lives in a spreadsheet that one person maintains.
  • 3

    A revision takes days, so you run one or two scenarios per cycle rather than ten.

  • 4
    Abstraction and license limits, energy cost, and outage schedules are tracked in three different places.
  • 5
    Someone has approached you about a large new industrial or data center load in the last 18 months.
  • 6
    You would need time to evidence spare yield through a dry year to a regulator, a board, or a counterparty.
  • 7
    The plan is difficult to hand over, because much of it sits with the person who built it.
Take the 4-minute self-assessment

One Model. Every Source. Every Timestep.

Optimize production across the full supply system—not source by source, but as one connected network.

AQUADVANCED® Water Supply, Production Planning runs multi-scenario simulations of your supply system and produces optimized mid-term production strategies: how much to draw from each source, treat at each plant, move through each pump station, and hold in each reservoir, across every timestep in the planning horizon.

It solves a global mass balance across sources, plants, wells, pump stations, and flow control sites, so the result is one plan rather than several local optima reconciled in a meeting.

An Advanced Solution for Mid-Term Production Planning

  • Facilitates input of historical data and demand forecasts, or forecasts demand for you.
  • Calculates optimized supply strategies across every source you operate.

  • Respects operational constraints and reservoir storage limits as they actually are.

  • Ensures supply resilience and optimal source utilization under any simulated condition.

  • Minimizes treatment and water purchasing costs, energy use, and carbon impact.

  • Communicates results through web-based dashboards the whole organization can read.

How a Plan Gets Built

Four steps, run as often as the system changes, rather than a study commissioned once a year. Data entry, simulation configuration, scenario analysis, publish results.

Production Planning input/output with four steps

Inputs on the left, outputs on the right, four steps in between.

Two Real Screens

Get a clear, system-wide view of your production plan, with the information needed to spot issues before they become problems.

Production Planning Operational Results Dashboard

The plan, by source and by timestep, in a view an operations manager can act on.

Production Planning Volume Results Map

The whole system at a glance, with constraint breaches visible ahead of time.

Where Do You Sit Within Production Planning?

For Utilities & Water Authorities Managing Supply

You are accountable for supply, and increasingly, for demonstrating it. Production Planning gives your team one model for the whole supply system and a plan that holds up in front of a regulator, a board, or a counterparty. Next steps:

For Consultants & EPC Firms Delivering the Plan

Your clients commission resilience studies, master plans, and drought plans that often stop at the recommendation. Production Planning is how the recommendation gets put into practice. There are two ways to use it, in delivery or in specification, and neither asks you to sign anything.

The consultant resources area holds the full technical brief, the specification language, and the commercial detail. We run a 45-minute session for your team, and you leave with the access.

Thirty Minutes, Structured, Not a Demo

A Resilience Review is a working session. Ten minutes on how you build your plan today. Ten minutes on where the effort is currently going. Ten minutes on what a different approach would change. You will come away with a clearer view of your own planning process whether or not you ever buy anything from us.