Logistics
Our products have significant application in the Logistics function both direct and indirect. For the Logistics players there are significant benefits from better route planning, better capacity planning, better asset planning (warehouse/vehicles) and better utilisation of assets. For other companies using logistics, our products can offer better supply chain planning and more effective and efficient Product-Plant-Warehouse-Market mapping.
Application Areas
Supply chain design and expansion (long-term)
- Least cost planning for locations, capacity sizing, and technology selection for facilities like plants, warehouses, dealer/retail outlets
- Installation of new facilities and expansion of existing ones
- Time-phase planning
Supply chain-wide simultaneous optimal planning for production, procurement, transportation, distribution, and inventory (medium term)
- Multiple objectives - maximize contribution, minimize delivered cost, minimize lead time, maximize utilization
- Optimal allocation of suppliers to plants, plants to warehouses, warehouses to markets, plants to markets
- Optimal transport-route-mode-quantity plan for primary and secondary freight
- Identifying bottlenecks
- Optimal inventory stocking plan for raw materials and finished products in plants, warehouses and dealer/retail outlets, including safety stocks
- Identifying ‘k’ cheapest or shortest routes between given origin-destination pairs
- Forecasting demands and prices