Designing better circular manufacturing scenarios
Circular manufacturing involves choices across factories and supply chains. Materials, processes, suppliers, buffers, products and scrap flows all influence how circular production can be organised.
SCOPT helps analyse these choices through supply chain optimisation.
Within CIRCULOOS, SCOPT supports the identification of effective intra-factory and supply chain configurations. It uses life-cycle assessment and cost indicators to help users explore production scenarios that balance operational efficiency with circular manufacturing objectives.
Connecting cost, sustainability and production flows
SCOPT brings together different dimensions of decision-making. Cost indicators help users understand operational feasibility. Sustainability indicators help assess environmental performance. Factory and supply chain models help show how materials and products move between actors.
This makes SCOPT especially relevant for companies and support organisations exploring circular production pathways. It allows users to think about how different configurations may perform before implementation.
Part of the CIRCULOOS tool ecosystem
SCOPT works in connection with other CIRCULOOS tools.
It can use data from the Supply Chain Digital Twin to construct models of factories and supply chains. It can retrieve sustainability indicators from GRETA through the Data Platform. Its results can then be published back to the Data Platform and visualised through SCDT.
This creates a connected workflow: visualise the system, assess sustainability, optimise configurations and share results.
A practical resource for training and mentoring
For DIHs and EDIHs, SCOPT can be introduced through scenario-based activities.
Participants can map a production process, identify material inputs and outputs, define possible circular alternatives and discuss which cost and sustainability indicators would matter. This helps make optimisation understandable before entering into technical detail.
For manufacturing SMEs, SCOPT supports clearer conversations about circular strategy. It helps structure decisions around resources, processes, partners and measurable indicators.
Optimisation for circular value chains
SCOPT shows how circular manufacturing can be planned and compared. By connecting supply chain optimisation with cost and lifecycle indicators, it supports more informed decisions across circular manufacturing ecosystems.