Supply Chain Design

The Challenge

The importance of a successful supply chain strategy and design for the financial wellbeing of organizations has been well documented.  A successful strategy opens the doors to the most significant cost reduction opportunities in a supply chain.  On the flip side, a poor design will dampen  any tactical or operational efforts to improve profitability.

In the strategic review and design of a supply chain we must evaluate long term configuration alternatives (number and location of plants and warehouses, allocation of production capacity, etc.) and identify that particular configuration that will satisfy demand, service, capacity and business restrictions at a minimum total cost or maximum margin.

The number of combinations and permutations of decision variables that must be factored as part of these studies is staggering.  At the same time, with the increased pace of change and volatility of global markets and economic conditions, the need to re-evaluate supply chain strategies has evolved from a ‘once every so often’ to a much more frequent exercise.  Multiple scenarios need to be reviewed and the results are, more often than not, needed ‘yesterday’.

To accomplish this successfully without the help of an automated supply chain optimization tool is simply not realistic.

The Solution: Opti-Net™ for Supply Chain Design

Opti-Net™, our supply chain network design and optimization software package, is the result of 20 years and dozens of integrated supply chain optimization systems developed and implemented by Technologix for major corporations in Canada, USA and Mexico.

Opti-Net™ empowers decision makers to review, re-configure and rationalize complex logistics networks. It helps make better informed and better quality decisions on a variety of infrastructure and related issues such as:

• The optimal configuration of the network: number, size and location of plants and warehouses
• The optimal flow of finished goods from plants to markets directly or via warehouses
• Which customers should be sourced from which locations
• Current and future bottlenecks
• Optimal utilization of capacity: production, storage and throughput
• The sourcing of raw materials
• Cost-effective capacity expansion strategies
• The rationalization of a network following a merger or acquisition

Key Features

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Key Benefits:

• A reduction in overall supply chain costs
• Higher margins
• Improved return on assets
• A more pro-active, less reactive planning environment
• An objective, quantitative tool that expedites the generation and analysis of ‘What If’ scenarios