VCO: Expanding Network Design to Meet Strategic Goals
Network Design is at the core of River Logic’s Value Chain Optimization (VCO) solution—a comprehensive solution designed to quantify and optimize the full potential of your current and future network, delivering holistic, timely answers to complex supply chain questions. VCO broadens the scope of network design optimization beyond traditional transportation and logistics to provide insights that align supply chain strategy with financial and sustainability objectives.
This expert solution is powered by River Logic’s Digital Planning Twin™ technology, uniquely capable of capturing all relevant input variables, constraints, and objectives.
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Optimizing Nework Design For Supply Chain: River Logic’s VCO Solution
River Logic’s Value Chain Optimization (VCO) is a comprehensive tool designed to maximize the potential of network design while aligning with financial and sustainability goals. This video delves into the power of our Digital Planning Twin™ technology and explores the four pillars of VCO that transforms network design optimization for supply chain: End-to-End Modeling, Data Management, Advanced Scenario Generation, and AI Integration. Don’t miss out on this game-changing solution.
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Value Chain Optimization (VCO) is a comprehensive solution designed to quantify and optimize the full potential of your current and future network design. It expands the scope of network design beyond the traditional transportation and logistics focus to provide insights that ensure supply chain strategy aligns with financial and sustainability corporate objectives.
This expert solution is powered by River Logic’s Digital Planning TwinTM technology, which is uniquely capable of capturing all relevant input variables, constraints, and objectives.
The resulting model is deployed in a secure and scalable cloud environment leveraging the full suite of Microsoft Azure services, including Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Active Directory, Azure Service Fabric, Power Apps, Power Automate, and more.
With an exciting roadmap focused on innovation and ease of use, River Logic is building on its long-standing partnership with Microsoft to fully integrate AI functionality to help users more easily identify, configure, and analyze what-if scenarios aimed at maximizing the full potential of network design optimization for supply chain.
KEY FEATURES
END-TO-END MODELING
Flow Path Optimization
Analyzes all possible product flow options within a single model, considering suppliers, inventories, DCs, and more, to find the optimal flow to meet an objective function as SLA.
Multi-level Manufacturing Optimization
Capabilities for product substitutions an utilization.
Financial Modeling and Reporting
Rolls up plans into financial statements to constrain or bias the solution towards line items (e.g., working capital constraints, COGS, operating profit) or ratios (e.g., margins, NPV); manages and optimizes the financial aspects of the supply chain (capital required to support growth, portfolio optimization, costing model, sustainability accounting, capacity planning) to achieve corporate goals (margin/profit/SLA).
Sustainability Integration
Addresses sustainability concerns with CO2e constraints, options for free/paid CO2e credits, and clear objectives for environmental impact minimization.
User-Defined Constraints
Allows users to define custom constraints such as ratios and inequalities to tailor the optimization process to specific business needs.
Objective Functions
Supports multiple/user-defined objective functions to align optimization efforts with business goals, such as profit, margins, and NPV.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Predefined Templates
Facilitates easier data integration and management, minimizing setup time and effort.
Data Validation
Offers a standard set of configurable data validation rules to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
Automation and Transformation
Automates data management tasks, including Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) processes, with ADF
ADVANCED SCENARIO GENERATION
Utilize powerful tools such as Monte Carlo simulation and multi-scenario filtering to generate comprehensive insights. Gain insights and quantify risk exposure effectively by leveraging
Enhanced User Experience (UX/UI)
New Geo Mapping Features
Visualize source/destination data and route flow options with additional
filtering capabilities for improved decision-making.
Expanded VCO Reports
Access a wider range of reports facilitating easier root cause analysis,
seamlessly transitioning from summary to detailed scenarios.
Configurable Dashboards, PowerBI and maps
A Closer Look: VCO Interface
AI INTEGRATION
Leverage the potential of artificial intelligence across the value chain with our VCO solution’s integrated AI capabilities, encompassing
Stage 1 AI Assistant – Facilitating Interaction with the Model
Empower decision-making by enabling functionalities such as data modification, basic decision support, scenario management, and auditing, alongside querying, search, and summarization features.
Stage 2 Decision Support AI – Interpretating Model Results
Enhance analysis through scenario interpretation, differentiation, comparison, strategic simulations, stochastic evaluations, and variable optimization.
Stage 3 Modeling Copilot – Enhancing Model Development
Stay ahead with our forthcoming modeling copilot, offering VCO model fine-tuning, advanced solve diagnostics, automated tunings, configurations, data validation rules generation, and data transformation script generation for optimal performance and adaptability. (Future feature details available upon release.)
SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE
