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Networks
Networks in Network Designer can be built to reflect real-
● 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 Network Designer 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.
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.
Infor Network Design
Infor Network Design 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.
Graphics
As well as providing detailed reports on sites, flows and costs, the powerful map-
If you are modelling CO2, reports can be produced of the emissions associated with customers and products.
Cost Models
Network Designer 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
● 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.
Emissions Models
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-
● re-
Optimisation
Network 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-
● 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 Network Designer allows the modeller to keep track of the many changes to data, cost models and settings that take place in a project.
A simplified network may look like this:
Paragon
Delivery Costing
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