Logico’s Supply Chain solutions focus on the strategies, processes and technologies required to minimize cost and increase profitability across the entire supply chain. Logico combines experienced professionals and best-of-breed technologies with a proven project methodology to help our clients achieve optimal supply chain performance. Learn More

Supply Chain Network Design

Supply chain network design simultaneously considers the trade-offs between the multitude of costs and interdependencies in your network, including; acquisition, sourcing, production, transportation, facility and inventory, in order to determine your optimal supply chain strategy.

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Transportation Network Design

Transportation Network Design allows clients to objectively evaluate the multitude of options, constraints, service requirements and carriers in their transportation network. From this evaluation, Logico can develop a comprehensive, integrated strategy & operational plan for every type of transportation (inbound, inter-facility & outbound) your network requires.

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Transportation Procurement

Transportation procurement is one of the most important & potentially complex initiatives in the development of a comprehensive logistics strategy. Effective procurement strategies designed by Logico can simultaneously yield your enterprise more effective service levels AND reduced expenditures.

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Supply Chain Network Design

Logico’s Approach:

  1. Follow a proven methodology & work plan
  2. Utilize the industry’s finest modeling & optimization technologies
  3. Address multiple supply chain design factors simultaneously
    • Facility location and sizing
    • Transportation strategies including mode alternatives
    • Inventory stocking alternatives
    • Production capacity allocation
    • Customer sourcing alternatives
    • Vendor sourcing alternatives

Transportation Network Design

Logico helps your organization answer the following questions:

  1. How should my transportation network be configured to support my overall Supply Chain strategy?
  2. What modes, carriers and equipment types offer the best value (service versus cost)?
  3. How should I consolidate my shipments in order to improve my asset utilization?
  4. What amount of capacity commitment will I need from my carriers to support my operation?
  5. Where are the leverage points in my network for rate negotiations?
  6. How will a change in my transportation rates affect my overall transportation budget?
  7. How will seasonal fluctuations in my business affect my transportation capacity requirements?
  8. What freight allowance should I include in my delivered pricing?

Transportation Procurement

  1. Development of a tailored RFI/RFQ process best suited to the client’s strategy, operational capabilities, timeline and network.
  2. Utilization of advanced multi-round auctioning approaches where appropriate
  3. Designed to reduce shipper transportation costs by helping the carrier community improve asset utilization
  4. Employment of optimization technologies to test lane award strategies and evaluate improvement against “baseline”.
  5. Our RFQ capabilities include ability to evaluate the following…
    • Conditional & Bundled pricing
    • Seasonality in the network
    • Consideration for equipment alternatives
    • Consideration for mode alternatives
    • Corporate transportation purchasing policies

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