Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. Logistics supply, infrastructure, support and processing functions, are joined together by transport links of various modes to form a network. Your network is made up from pieces of the supply chain that you have control of and can influence its effectiveness to serve your customers.
As businesses evolve with changes to store portfolios, multichannel ordering facilities and ever-changing customer demographics, logistics networks often become inefficient over time. As a result they cannot deliver required customer propositions as effectively and efficiently as needed in today’s competitive trading environment.
The challenge businesses face with increasing fuel and land costs is determining the right balance between the number of distribution centres and transport costs to form the optimum logistics network solution that will serve your customers today and for the future.
For any network design assignment, we will determine the optimum logistics network for your logistics operations by typically running simulation models of a variety of workable network options to include some of the following:-
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