How should our supply chain react to disruptions and special events?

Use scenario analysis to evaluate alternative responses and select designs that preserve service while managing cost and risk.

How robust and flexible is our current network design to changes in key drivers?

Assess robustness by stress-testing demand, capacity, and transportation assumptions across scenarios and comparing outcomes against objectives.

Which customers should be served from which distribution centers?

Optimize customer-to-DC assignments considering service levels, transportation modes, capacity limits, and inventory placement.

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Network Strategy & Design

Value Chain Optimization

How to Best Utilize Existing and Future Logistics Assets

Network Design, a function of Value Chain Optimization, enables our customers to move beyond traditional cost-cutting in network design by considering cross-functional impacts. This approach helps prioritize long-term resilience against demand fluctuations, process efficiencies, risk mitigation, and more.

Network design is one of the most crucial processes in driving a supply chain’s efficiency and performance.

With constantly changing supply chain dynamics, the need to reduce costs, maintain service levels, and appropriately utilize existing assets is more pressing than ever. For this reason, “what if” is a crucial phrase for every supply chain. Regarding “what ifs,” truly forward-thinking companies are thinking about their end-to-end value chain, not just their supply chain.

Primary objectives for optimizing the network design include minimizing cost while simplifying or streamlining the network footprint. But strategic Supply Chain can be enabled with trade-off analysis in extending beyond cost objectives to service, resiliency, or sustainability as objectives.

Modernize Your Supply Chain Network Design

Paradigm Shift in Network Design

Your Key Decisions Optimized

Which customers are served out of which DCs
How does product flow through the network assets (e.g., Hub/spoke, dedicated warehouses, DTC)
Which lanes and modes of transportation
How many DCs and where
Inventory placement

Solving Complex Questions

How do we respond to unexpected disruptions?
How robust, responsive, and flexible is my supply chain design to changes in key drivers?
How should my supply chain react to disruptions and special events?

Demonstrated Value

Productivity & margins

Operational costs by creating optimal production plans

Operating costs & production capacity

How Value Chain Optimization Transforms Network Design for Our Customers

Accenture

Pierre Mawet, Managing Director – Supply Chain & Operations

"COVID-19 has put a spotlight on what happens when complex global supply chains are disrupted. While COVID-19 will pass, the need to understand how to continually optimize end-to-end supply chains in the face of unexpected disruption is here to stay. River Logic provides the intelligence necessary to build more resilient and agile supply chains."

Business Modelling Applications

Rod Stout, Co-Founder

"When you combine industry experience that is respected and trusted with a unique next-generation technology, it’s not too difficult to differentiate from the competition. When a client sees a solution swiftly solve today’s problems, while adding value, and realizes that it can be applied to address future challenges, it’s not too difficult for the client to make a purchasing decision."

Microsoft

Herain Oberoi, Sr. Director Product Marketing

"The addition of River Logic to our marketplace lets a line of business executives such as those in supply chain, finance, and marketing take advantage of predictive and prescriptive analytics to better align business strategies and operational functions."

PWC

Simon Avenell, Partner

"River Logic’s Platform allows us to answer many of our clients’ most important questions. This builds trust and allows authentic conversations, and it’s in these relationships that the power of our firm can be brought to clients and unlock unmatched value for their business."

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How to Best Utilize Existing and Future Logistics Assets

Modernize Your Supply Chain Network Design

Paradigm Shift in Network Design

How Value Chain Optimization Transforms Network Design for Our Customers

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