Network Optimization + Route-to-Market
Reaching your customers through a network that is both effective and efficient is now a fundamental requirement within a competitive business environment.
Some of the challenges faced include:
- What is the optimal number and location for your plants, distribution centres and depots?
- Where each product should be made?
- What transport assets should be employ and how to optimise their utilization?
- Outsourcing vs Insourcing
- How to assign customers to distribution centres and depots?
- What if my business changes?
The LCA Difference
LCA is the consulting partner of one of the world’s leading Network Optimisation Software provider.
Map Displays: CAST uses advanced GIS mapping functionality to visualise and validate the supply chain, thereby enhancing visibility & understanding of supply and demand data.- Centre of gravity modelling: Used to identify new warehouse locations & warehouse configurations given supply and demand volumes by location.
- Service Lead Time Analysis: Used to consider service levels and transport lead-times across global road networks for each warehouse configuration tested.
- Cost modelling & optimization: CAST uniquely offers 2 solving approaches, a cost minimising heuristic and a Mixed Integer Programming Optimizer (MIPO). Both are used to evaluate & identify the ‘preferred’ or optimal supply chain configuration and to calculate the Total Cost to Market for each customer product group record.
- Carbon Emissions Modelling: CAST-CO2 allows a user to calculate the carbon emissions of any given supply chain. This allows the comparison of cost, service level and CO2 across scenarios.
- Reporting: The Report Generator permits viewing of detailed PDF reports, customised exporting of results into Microsoft Excel, Access or CSV file format and interrogation of unit costs by supply chain component for each scenario in the Scenario Comparison Browser.
LCA brings to the table the depth of experience in planning, transport, distributor network operations and network modelling. We work with our client’s team to develop practical scenario models that clearly demonstrate the ‘as is’ situation and the impact of each viable alternative. We will help you design your supply chain for maximum profitability and service.
In most cases, these models are left with our clients – for re-use as and when their situation changes again.
Successful Projects
View a sample list of projects we have successfully completed for our clients.