Local improvements often shift cost or risk elsewhere. Network optimization evaluates the connected system and identifies configurations that meet demand under explicit constraints.
What belongs in the network model?
Represent suppliers, production sites, warehouses, customers, transport lanes, capacities, lead times, fixed and variable costs, inventory policies, service targets, and demand. The model must be detailed enough for the decision—not detailed for its own sake.
Use scenarios to make uncertainty visible
Compare a baseline with alternatives such as opening or closing a site, changing sourcing, reallocating volume, adding capacity, modifying service targets, or losing a supplier. Robust decisions perform acceptably across several plausible futures.
Connect strategic and operational optimization
Strategic network design sets the footprint. Tactical planning allocates capacity and inventory. Operational intelligence responds to daily exceptions. Connecting these levels prevents short-term actions from undermining long-term design.
- Total landed and operating cost
- Service level and response time
- Capacity utilization and bottlenecks
- Inventory and working capital
- Resilience to disruption
Model your supply network.
Compare footprint, flow, cost, service, and resilience scenarios.