Supply Chain Design
Strategic decisions for a future-proof supply chain
Your supply chain design determines your performance
Changing market demand, rising costs, new products, and global disruptions make it increasingly important to take a critical look at how your supply chain is designed.
Decisions about production locations, distribution centers, inventory positions, and transportation flows often have a long-term impact on costs, service levels, and flexibility.
With Supply Chain Design, we help organizations make fact-based strategic decisions.
Costs
Insight into the financial impact of network decisions.
Flexibility
Better prepared for changes in supply and demand.
Evidence
Strategic decisions based on facts and scenarios.
Strategic decisions that impact the entire supply chain
The design of a supply chain largely determines how efficiently and flexibly an organization can operate.
Key questions include:
- How many locations do you need?
- Where should you position inventory?
- Which customers should be served from which location?
- How can you optimize transportation flows?
- How do you accommodate growth or changing market demand?
A decision in one part of the network often affects costs, availability, and service levels throughout the rest of the supply chain.
That is why Supply Chain Design requires insight into the interdependencies across the entire supply chain.
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Location strategy
Where should you produce, distribute, and store products to achieve the best balance between cost and service?
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Inventory positioning
At which locations should you hold inventory, and what role should that inventory play within the supply chain?
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Transportation flows
How should you organize the flow of goods between suppliers, production facilities, distribution centers, and customers?
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Capacity
What production, storage, and transportation capacity is needed to meet future demand?
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Network structure
How should you design your supply chain to keep it efficient, resilient, and scalable?
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Growth & scenarios
What decisions are needed to prepare for growth, market changes, and future developments?
What are the benefits of a well-designed supply chain?
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Lower logistics costs
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Higher delivery reliability
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Better capacity utilization
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Greater flexibility in response to change
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Better-informed investment decisions
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A future-proof supply chain
Curious where the opportunities lie within your network?
From network challenge to well-informed decision
An optimal supply chain network cannot be designed based on assumptions alone.
Together with your specialists, we map products, production processes, warehouses, transportation flows, market demand, and future developments. We then translate this information into quantitative models that allow us to evaluate different scenarios.
Using optimization and simulation models, we assess the impact of strategic decisions and identify which network design best aligns with your objectives and constraints.
We look not only at costs, but also at service levels, capacity, risks, and future growth.
The result is not just a better design on paper, but a supply chain that also performs in practice.
Is your supply chain still optimally designed?
Many supply chains have evolved over time. Changing markets, products, and customer expectations can mean that a network design that was once optimal is no longer the best choice.
We’d be happy to explore the possibilities with you.