Infrastructure Unleashes Performance

All sourcing, production, transportation activities of your company are bound within the infrastructure of your supply chain; i.e. your suppliers, production facilities, warehouse locations, configurations of these facilities, customer - distribution center alignments, transportation lanes, modes, and stocking locations.

A supply chain infrastructure that is designed specifically for the corporate strategy is one of the key enablers of business success. Today's dynamic business environment makes regular assessment of current infrastructure against corporate goals a necessity. Typically, changes in business strategy, market trends, outsourcing, and distribution services, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, new product introductions are some of the triggers for re-evaluation of supply chain infrastructure.

planLM Network Optimization solution provides analytical tools for designing the supply chain infrastructure that would maximize economic performance over the long term.

Key Benefits

• Enable robust analytical analysis of all strategic aspects of your existing supply chain
  — product sourcing strategy; evaluate supplier location decisions on lead time and reliability effects
  — production strategy; evaluate make or buy decisions, postponement strategies, determine locations, size, product mixes of production facilities
  — distribution network strategy; evaluate supplier direct, plant direct, consignment strategies, and determine transportation modes, lanes and customer - distribution center alignments
  — customer service strategy; evaluate the effect of service targets on profitability
  
• Rationalize your supply chain infrastructure for ever changing market trends, mergers, acquisitions, new product introductions, and and align it with your strategic goals

Key Features

planLM Network Optimization solution is specifically designed for rapid execution of our strategy solutions implementation methodology. It features an end-to-end approach; validation of the raw data used in the analysis, building baseline and future scenarios, optimization, detailed simulation, scenario analysis, and implementation planning. Key features are as follows:

• Unprecedented scalability; runs on 64bit architecture eliminating any limits on the size of the supply chain.
• Modeling uncertainty; accounts for demand and supply uncertainty, considers service level and safety stock requirements, enables one-step total cost optimization of stocking locations
• Prioritized Optimization Goals; features the capability of customizable business objectives; in addition to standard profit optimization business objective, multiple prioritized goals can be defined, presents ultimate flexibility in strategy determination
• Comprehensive cost and capacity modeling; inherently models all activities in the supply chain, eliminates configuration efforts for most projects, makes modeling as simple as loading data
• Carbon Footprint Modeling; features inherent modeling of carbon footprint of supply chain activities, enables regional footprint constraints, and footprint optimization
• Ease of data clean-up; identifies outliers and data abnormalities, features one click baseline extraction functionality to build a current-state scenario from transactional data to compare against future scenarios
• Validation of operational feasibility; features full featured supply chain simulation to validate the operational feasibility of scenarios by providing detailed information on expected behavior of key performance indicators before physically implementing them.
• OnDemand deployment option; enables you to start your network optimization project right away, without acquiring any software license or hardware. Contact us for a quick start guide.