Shipment Flow Optimizer
Plan smarter shipment flows across both location and time.
The optimizer builds a dynamic time-space network where each site exists across multiple periods, enabling consolidation, controlled dwell, and capacity-aware routing that cuts costs while protecting service performance.
How a Manufacturer Monetized the “Hub vs. Direct” Dilemma: Use Case
A real-world example of how intelligent hub vs. direct decision-making can cut transport costs, improve truck utilization, and maintain JIT performance across a complex supply network.
What it is
- Optimizes end-to-end shipment movement across your network.
- Balances transport, storage, timing & capacity.
- Evaluates shipments together for the most efficient flow.
- Finds where consolidation saves money.
What it delivers
- Best routing across direct, hub, or multi-step paths.
- Capacity-aware plans that avoid overloads.
- Clear visibility into bottlenecks, dwell time & cost impact.
- Fast cloud-based scenarios from simple Excel inputs.
What are the benefits
- Reduce transport, handling and storage costs with smarter orchestration.
- Avoid bottlenecks and protect service levels during volume peaks.
- Replace rules and gut feeling with consistent, data-driven decision making.
- Enable planners to test scenarios and act with confidence.
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Optimize Shipments Through Time & Space
Dynamic Time-Space Network
Optimize when shipments move, not just where
A dynamic network where each location exists across time periods, enabiling lead-time-aware routing, smart consolidation, controlled dwell, and capacity-driven flow decisions.
when is the app essential?
Use Case Overview
Deliver freight through hubs, DCs & final customers efficiently.
Optimal Path Selection
Find the lowest-cost journey across multiple hops – direct or indirect.
Service-Aligned Routing
Meet delivery windows even when flows aren’t straightforward.
Mixed Network Support
Consolidation, cross-dock, transload – model them all.
Lower Cost per Mile
Avoid unnecessary stops and reduce empty movement.
Use time flexibility to protect margin and move smarter.
Intelligent Hold/Release
Wait just long enough to build profitable Freight loads.
Load Building Guidance
Know where consolidation makes sense – and where it slows you down.
Dwell Awareness
Balance storage cost vs. transport savings dynamically.
Lower Frequency, Higher Efficiency
Reduce carrier runs without hurting service.
Safely experiment before committing spend.
Mode Comparison
Evaluate road, air, rail, intermodal or express side-by-side.
Lane Impact Analysis
See how adding (or removing) a lane shifts flows elsewhere.
Cost vs. Service Modeling
Know exactly what you gain – and what you trade off.
Smarter Capacity Allocation
Point volume to the most appropriate mode at every step.
from shipments to storage
How the Optimizer Thinks
Decisions it Makes
Defines optimal path, timing, consolidation strategy, and transport mode for each shipment.
Goals it Respects
Minimizes total supply chain costs by evaluating thousands of routes to find the plan with the lowest total costs.
Gives Actionable Results
Gives insights into exact multi-leg journey for each shipment including timing, shows vehicle & warehouse utilization, and dropped shipments.
the results
What You’ll Get
Design Shipment Routes
Model end-to-end shipment flows across suppliers, hubs and customers and test routing strategies before they hit the network.
Optimize Cost vs. Service
Let the optimizer choose the best mix of transport, timing and warehouse touchpoints to minimize cost while meeting delivery goals.
Balance Space & Time
Plan flows not just across locations, but across periods, meaning consolidation, storage and routing decisions work together to reduce cost and congestion.
Testimonials
Our Customers
Vinit Desai, Associate Consultant at KAIZEN Institute
Log-hub took the time to understand my requirements, with seamless communication. They went the extra mile to ensure I was delighted. The quality of their solutions exceeded my expectations. Log-hub has set the bar incredibly high, and I won’t hesitate to work with them in the future.
Vivek Srivastava, Program Manager at Unilever
Log-hub enables broader teams, including business analysts, data analysts, and non-modelers, to efficiently perform network optimization analysis and enhance supply chain performance with ease. Supply Chain Apps improve supply chain performance, with minimal efforts and data modeling requirements.
Joe Miller, Consultant at Argon & Co
The Supply Chain Apps has been a fantastic tool has been fantastic tool: easy to use, and fast. It is brilliant for desktop CoG modelling, isochrones, customisable maps etc. The customer service (Franjali Kinathi) has also been very good, going the extra mile to find solutions for me when I had a problem with my account subscription.
Florence Miranda, Asst General Manager – Procurement at Mahindra Logistics
Supply Chain Apps by Log-hub are a useful and helpful Supply Chain Analytics Tool, impacting the way we tackle complex projects. What used to take us hours to complete can now be accomplished in just minutes, thanks to the efficiency and power of these apps.
Gabriel Mondragon Cedillo, CEO at Canvas Supply Chain Consulting
Log-Hub had become an essential tool for my consultants to show a problem in logistics or supply chain to people not related to this areas within companies. Data, Analytics & AI Solutions for digital twins projects had being a breakthrough to offer this advance analysis to our clients in USA Canada and Mexico.
Martin Baker, Senior Manager at EFESO
From Log-hub’s Supply Chain Apps portfolio, the Network Design Apps offer a fast, user-friendly, and cost-effective solution for managing 2-tier supply chains. The Network Design Apps enable businesses to quickly model and improve their supply chain efficiency without the need for complex, expensive software.
Stephan Verheijden, Teamleader Continuous Improvement at Ewals Logistics Control
Within Ewals Logistics Control, we use Log-Hub’s Supply Chain Apps for both visualization and optimization purposes. This user-friendly application allows us to create and present interesting supply-chain solutions in an efficient and professional way.
Christian Balduhn, Senior Consultant at IO Consultants
The Supply Chain Add-in from Log-hub offers an exceptional suite of tools for conducting advanced Network Design studies. You can start simple with the Center of Gravity App. For more intricate network analysis, the Network Design Plus App offers advanced functionalities to tackle complex supply chain challenges.
Piet van Leest, LSO Goods Flow Management at ASML
Supply Chain Add-In Portfolio is constantly evolving! We mainly use network design visualization and optimization tools that allow for detailed and dynamic analysis. These powerful apps come equipped with extensive modeling capabilities, and offer the flexibility needed to achieve fast supply chain visualization.
Fabian Bodenbender, Business Advisor at 4PL Central Station
Supply Chain Apps have empowered us to effortlessly uncover opportunities for cost savings and service enhancements throughout our supply chain. By integrating advanced analytics directly within Excel, Supply Chain Apps make it simple to apply sophisticated methods without the need for complex software.
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