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Supply Chain Designer |
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Supply Chain Designer can
help you make decisions regarding the current cost and service
levels by customer and product group, site selection and
location for manufacturing and distribution facilities, which
suppliers to use, transport modes, inventory location and
customer serving methods. |
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As well as providing
detailed reports on sites, flows and costs, the powerful
map-based graphics within CAPS allow you to understand
exactly what is happening within a logistics network.
The flow of goods and the cost to serve customers can be
displayed at product level.
If you are modelling
CO2, reports can be produced of the emissions associated
with customers and products. |
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Networks in the CAPS Supply Chain Designer can be built
to reflect real-life supply chains. Different types of
site can be defined within the model, e.g.
- Suppliers
- Production plants
- Warehouses
- Cross dock centres
- Customers
Sites may be real sites or potential sites that are
included for assessment purposes.
Lanes are defined to connect these sites, where there
is a possible transport link. As CAPS contains road
databases for most countries in the world, lanes can
contain road distances. Alternatively, times and
distances can be taken from other planning systems. |
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Plants |
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Warehouses |
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Crossdocks |
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Customers |
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Supply and demand can be defined at product level
and applied to sites and lanes, where they can
handle those products. Bills of materials can be
defined where sites convert products into other
products. |
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CAPS cost models
can be applied to either sites or lanes to reflect
the actual costs incurred in a supply chain.
Depending on the level of detail required in a
project, costs can be expressed in a simple or
complex manner. Costs can be described either for
sites and lanes, or for particular products at sites
and lanes. Examples of the cost models are.
Fixed Site Costs
- fixed
cost if open, possibly reflecting different
property costs
- fixed
cost according to the level of throughput, to
reflect different levels of production or
materials handling technology
Variable Site
Costs
- cost per
unit, possibly reflecting different labour rates
- cost per
unit according to the level of throughput, to
reflect economies of scale
Lane Costs
- cost per
unit
- cost per
unit mile
- cost per
unit according to volume
- cost per
load, one way or two way
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ferry/tunnel costs
- rail or
air freight tables
- LTL or FTL rates tables
- duty
payments and drawback
It is possible
to define a number of transportation cost models and
the software will choose the least cost for a
particular lane. Custom macros can also be written
to calculate costs during the modelling process. |
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Emissions can be described either for
sites and lanes, or for particular products at sites
and lanes, in the same way as costs. Emissions at
plants can be used to illustrate the impact of
manufacturing and when applied to lanes will show
the impact of transport. As lanes can represent
different transport modes, the different levels of
emissions associated with air, sea and road freight
can be modelled.
The system can be set up to:
- calculate the emissions of the current
supply chain
- re-design the supply chain to minimise
emissions
- re-design the supply chain to minimise costs
with a defined reduction in emissions
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| The CAPS
Supply Chain Designer contains the CPLEX solver from
ILOG, which gives a true mathematical optimisation of
the problem presented to it. In addition to the
network definition and cost models, the solver also
takes into account specific user-defined constraints, such as:
- the capacities of sites and lanes, defined
either as total flow or the flow of particular
products
- the minimum flow through sites and lanes, either
in total or at product level
- whether sites can receive supply from multiple
sources or whether they must be single sourced
- any limits to the number of sites, eg "open
no fewer than 2 and no more than 4 warehouses"
- the maximum emissions allowed
A Scenario Manager within the Supply Chain Designer
allows the modeller to keep track of the many changes to
data, cost models and settings that take place in a
project. |
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