Operations Improvement

Supply Chain Design (SCD)

• Where and when should a company expand its physical capacity: warehouses, equipment, plants, etc.?
• Should operations be centralized or decentralized?
• What are the most profitable products and customers?
• Which are the optimum scenarios for maximizing cash flow?
• How do we improve plans for supply, manufacturing and distribution?
• How many distribution centers should we have?
• Where should we locate each DC?
• What is the cost of increasing service levels?
• For which routes should we hire third party transportation carriers?
• What are appropriate inventory levels?

These and other related questions have a significant impact on infrastructure costs, operations costs and service levels. Depending on their magnitude, we can't always rely on estimates or intuition to make these decisions. Processes and tools exist that analyze circumstances and data to demonstrate the options and enable the right decisions. We refer broadly to the methodologies that provide these answers as Supply Chain Design (SCD).

Tsol participates in every aspect of the SCD process including data collection and cleaning, definition of metrics and objectives, and analysis of options. Our team works with any number of analytical tools which use linear programming and/or heuristics to derive possible solutions and display them in an intelligible manner.