Network Design

Raise saving potentials while improving service quality.

Log-hub Supply Chain Apps, Network Design
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What it is

  • Network optimization engine that models your supply chain from factory to customer.
  • A simulation tool that uses real costs, distances, and service constraints.
  • Visual and data-driven app for strategic supply chain design decisions.

What it delivers

  • Optimized distribution networks that balance cost and service levels.
  • Scenario comparisons that reveal the impact of different network setups.
  • Clear sourcing and fulfillment strategies based on your actual data.

What are the benefits

  • Reduce transportation and warehouse costs without sacrificing service.
  • Make smarter, faster decisions using realistic, road-level simulations.
  • Build a more resilient and scalable supply chain network.

Why use Network Design Apps?

Define optimal number and location of distribution centers
✔ Reduce costs while increasing service levels
✔ Compare scenarios side-by-side
✔ Model real-world constraints and customer needs
✔ Visualize your network and decisions with intuitive maps and dashboards

Simulate your current setup, explore new scenarios, and uncover cost-optimal solutions – all with detailed modeling options and interactive road-level maps.

Network Design App

What you get:

Finds optimal number and location of DCs.

✓ Provides Cost Optimal Solution

✓ Enables fixing centers in the solution

✓ Market expansion simulation

✓ Advanced sourcing logic

Network Design + App

What you get:

All from regular Network Design App, plus:

✓ Accounts for product segments.

✓ Enables cost adjustment for realistic simulation & optimization.

✓ Accounts for service levels.

✓ Street-level optimization.

✓ Allows sourcing customers from multiple warehouses.

✓ Turn on/off inbound or outbound consolidation.

✓ Accounts for penalties incurred when warehouse capacity is exceeded.

✓ Accounts for inbound & outbound replenishment frequency.

Great minds think alike

Romuald Jaworski

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. 

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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.

CP Van Vuren

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.

Scenario Comparison – See the Impact Clearly

Make decisions with clarity. Our Scenario Comparison feature allows you to simulate and compare multiple versions of your network – side by side. From cost to warehouse utilization and service levels, you’ll see the full picture before you act.

Center of Gravity Scenario Comparison

VISUALIZE EVERY STEP

Interactive Maps with Real Street-Level Insights

Visualize your supply chain with interactive 3D maps, dynamic bar charts, heat maps, and layered views that bring your network data to life.

Center of Gravity Scenario Comparison

Scaling Up: Redesigning the German Apparel Distribution Network for Growth

Discover how an apparel retailer used Log-hub’s Supply Chain Apps to redesign their supply chain network, increase service levels, reduce costs, and drive business growth.

Geocoding analysis map

Increase service levels and cut distribution costs.

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Center of Gravity

Calculate the weighted centers of your customers.

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