Network Design & Utilization

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Network Design & Utilization

Intelligent, end-to-end network design, modeling, redesign and optimization can help you optimize for new channels while using what-if analysis to reduce risk and identify best-case scenarios.

Overview

Redesign your supply chain network for better results

Blue Yonder's supply chain network design solutions help you rapidly make significant changes to fulfill new customer demands and navigate new risks, while lowering costs. 
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Supply Chain Network Cost Reduction

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Increased Gross Profit from Operations

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Network Inventory Reduction

Features & Capabilities

Faster Network Design with Blue Yonder

End-to-end network design

Expand, mitigate disruption, or simply optimize your current network resources with Blue Yonder’s network design capability. Get the strategic, end-to-end functionality you need to evaluate, design, optimize and ultimately transform your supply chain network.

Network Modelling

Model network performance based on business scenarios over multiple time horizons to optimize both strategic and tactical designs. Integrate with planning solutions for speed and convenience.

Dynamic Network Design

Predict common supply chain configurations by SKU, product sector or segment with dynamic segmentation.

What-if Scenario Analysis

Run what-if scenarios of the full network or parts of it to compare performance to cost, profit and business outcomes over different time horizons.

Key Benefits

What’s Possible with Blue Yonder

Better Decisions

Align your planning and execution systems based on detailed analyses of network design changes so you can quickly deploy financial and service improvements while mitigating risk and business disruption.

In-depth Analysis

Blue Yonder’s network design makes both continuous decisions (e.g., “How much of a specific product should be made in Chicago?”) and discrete decisions (e.g., “Should we choose Philadelphia or Newark for a new distribution center location?”) in the same optimization.

Flexible Scenario Planning

Investigate a wide range of what-if scenarios with flexible modeling to make optimizations, prioritize critical customer situations and reduce risk across all industry sectors from high-tech, food, beverage, consumer durables and apparel to life sciences, aerospace, automotive and OEMs and more.

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Improved network resilience

Create a robust network design tailored to meet your organization’s strategic goals. Balance supply resilience with the flexibility to adjust to changing market dynamics.

Enhanced KPI reporting

Monitor network performance and respond to changing network conditions through dynamic KPI reporting.

Optimized outcomes

Align planning and execution systems to the optimized decision, enabling your business to achieve financial and service improvements while mitigating risk and disruption. 

Case Studies

Success stories in Network Design & Utilization

    • ITC  Reduces Cost of Goods Sold by 1% and  2 Month ROI on Network Design Investment for its Biscuit Business
      ITC  Reduces Cost of Goods Sold by 1% and  2 Month ROI on Network Design Investment for its Biscuit Business

      After experiencing significant growth in its packaged goods sector, multi-billion-dollar conglomerate ITC Limited realized their existing spreadsheet-based planning tools were no longer meeting its needs. Learn how Blue Yonder’s network design capabilities helped ITC save nearly one percent of cost of goods sold, resulting in a full return on investment in less than two months.

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