Network Design

Raise saving potentials while improving service quality.

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What it is

The Network Design App is a great tool for optimizing your end-to-end Supply Chain.
It allows you to calculate the optimal number and locations of your warehouses.
Determine the optimal product flows through your Supply Chain.

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What it delivers

Find the global optimum – regarding transport and warehouse costs.
Regard minimum and maximum warehouse capacities
Define service level requirements for each customer that have to be fulfilled.

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What are the benefits

Run network design studies by your own and simulate the effects of future demand changes on your Network Design.
Solve complex models through processing power from the cloud.
Reduce modeling and processing time of Network Design studies up to 70% due to optimized workflow.

Network Design vs. Network Design Plus?

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What’s the difference?

Network Design

Data input structure for in and outbound transport costs is specialized on road transportation
Detailed costs functions for road transportation can be modeled

Network Design Plus

Modeling of in and outbound transportation costs is possible for different modes of transport (air, road, sea)
Transportation costs can be modeled separately for each relation

Model your Supply Chain end-to-end

Use detailed modeling options to regard all relevant elements influencing your Supply Chain Design. Start with the factories, model in- and outbound flows of warehouses and take your customers into account.

Improve service levels for your customers

Define the maximum allowed distance to the next warehouse for each customer. The optimizer will take these restrictions into account while minimizing total costs. So, you can combine cost and service optimization.

Take optimized sourcing decisions

You can specify from which factory the goods for a customer are coming from. It is also possible that the optimizer takes this decision for you. Integrate optimized sourcing decisions in your Network Design model.

Optimize your network based on beeline or street-level distance

You can choose whether optimization of your network will be done based on beeline or street-level distance.

Network Design Tutorial

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Learn how a US beverage company uses the Network Design App to optimize their network.

Processing power from the cloud

Profit from processing power from the cloud to reduce solving times.

Auto generated interactive maps and dashboards help you to understand optimization results immediately.

Optimize global Supply Chains with geo and map material up to house number level worldwide.

Visualize your results on animated Supply Chain Map

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Add an animation layer to Supply Chain map to visualize your flows interactively.

Combine Network Design with other tools

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Achieve better results with our recommendations.

Center of Gravity

Calculate the weighted centers of your customers.

Transport Optimization Plus

Optimize your shipment planning within a given time constraint.

Flow Visualization

Visualize your Supply Chain flows with Sankey Diagrams.

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