Consumer-product companies have traditionally performed network planning every year or so. But their monolithic order systems are seldom tuned to allow such things across the network as daily:
- Work-load balancing
- Space management
- Least cost sourcing. As an example, a customer located between 2 DC’s (“A” & “B”) might order the preponderance of product that is made close to DC “A” – but be shipped from DC “B.” Our analysis shows this to cost 2-4% of supply chain costs
We are solutioning this problem. Who is interested in working with us?
In the news:
- Britain’s exit from the EC is causing its own problems:
- IKEA apologized to British customers after stock shortages due to congestion at U.K. ports
- Exporters worry that customs infrastructure is untested and will fail on Jan 1 when it appears to be needed in a “hard exit”
- Why is oil at $47/barrel? An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by an “external source”