Transform your operations with strategic supply chain design.

THE CHALLENGE

Are rising costs, poor customer service, or lack of resilience dragging you down?

Many companies today struggle with inefficient supply chain networks, resulting in high operational costs, slow response times, and unhappy customers. Poorly positioned facilities, suboptimal transportation set-up, and underutilized resources can all lead to delays, increased costs, and lost market opportunities. Without a well-designed supply chain network, businesses risk losing their competitive edge.
THE SOLUTION

Reduce costs and improve service levels.

Supply Chain Design (SCD) is the key to building a resilient, cost-efficient, sustainable, and customer-focused supply chain. By strategically optimizing the locations of manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and warehouses, as well as planning the ideal transportation setup, you can significantly reduce costs and improve service levels. Using advanced modeling and data analytics, SCD evaluates scenarios to guide decisions on facility placement, capacity planning, sourcing strategies, and much more. This holistic approach ensures your supply chain is optimized for both cost efficiency and flexibility, enabling your business to adapt quickly to market changes, disruptions, and evolving customer demands.
BUSINESS VALUE

Cut Costs, boost efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction.

 An optimized supply chain network unlocks significant business value. With the right network design, you achieve a supply chain that’s agile and ready for the future – keeping you competitive in an ever-changing market.

  • Lowering logistics costs: Reduce transportation expenses and optimize resource allocation.
  • Improving delivery times: Minimize delays to meet customer expectations and strengthen satisfaction.
  • Optimizing inventory levels: Maintain balance – reduce excess stock while avoiding shortages.
  • Enhancing scalability and resilience: Adapt quickly to demand fluctuations and supply chain disruptions.
  • Driving sustainability: Build an efficient and environmentally conscious supply chain.
  • Enabling strategic decision-making: Run hundreds of models and sensitivity analyses with advanced what-if scenario management tools.

Key Features & Benefits

Strategic facility location

Optimize the placement of production plants, distribution centers, and warehouses based on demand patterns – close to suppliers, customers, and transportation infrastructure. This will result in lower total network costs, shorter delivery times, and more efficient supply chains.

Sourcing optimization

Keep operations smooth and scalable by balancing supply capacity with demand. Dynamically optimized sourcing rules ensure your facilities and suppliers are neither overwhelmed nor underutilized – avoiding bottlenecks and improving resource efficiency.

Cost-effective transportation set-up

Design transportation systems that balance cost and delivery speed by optimizing the use of carriers and transport modes. This will lower transportation costs while maintaining reliable delivery timelines, improving both efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Risk mitigation & resilience

Build redundancy into your supply chain by diversifying suppliers, locations, and routes. This reduces the impact of disruptions, whether caused by natural disasters or geopolitical events. The result is improved resilience and fewer costly delays or shutdowns.

Sustainability integration

Incorporate CO2 footprint reduction and circular supply chain principles into your network. What-if and scenario management are key to understanding and balancing your CO2 footprint, risk, service, and cost to achieve goals and comply with regulatory standards.

Additional supported areas

Streamline budgeting, CapEx planning, cost-to-serve analysis, site selection, mergers and acquisitions, reverse logistics, taxes, duties, and more. With these tools, you can design a supply chain that’s not only efficient and resilient but also prepared to meet future demands.

Empower your organization with strategic planning.

A well-designed supply chain helps you lower costs, improve service levels, boost resilience, and advance sustainability goals. With an effective planning process, cross-functional teamwork, and leading technology, you can unlock your business’s full potential – and position your business for long-term success in today’s competitive market.

  • Create a future roadmap: Develop and compare different scenarios to enhance your business insights and break down organizational silos.
  • Reduce risk and uncertainty: Anticipate disruptions and recover faster to keep operations running smoothly.
  • Simplify complexity: Understand and manage the intricate events in your supply chain across all functions quickly and flexibly.
  • Align actions with strategy: Identify the necessary steps and decisions to achieve your organization’s vision and goals.
  • Assess consequences and risks: Evaluate the impact of actions across the entire supply chain to make informed decisions.
  • Make informed recommendations: Navigate through numerous potential solutions to choose the best path forward, considering different organizational objectives.

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80%
SHARE OF A COMPANY's CO2 EMISSION RELATED TO SUPPLY CHAIN

80% of a company’s CO2 emission is related to the Supply Chain. It is important with a transparent overview of where in the Supply Chain the emission is created.

30%
COST SAVINGS

By utilizing Technology for Supply Chain planning it is easier to understand and visualize the complex and uncertain world. At it’s best it will provide you with a significant cost saving.

15%
TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATION

Streamlined transportation can provide you with not only a reduction in CO2 but also a cost reduction. We can help you streamline not only your masterdata, but also the transportation policies and design.

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