Optimize logistic networks

Optimised logistics networks are essential for the long-term economic success of a company. Strategic alignment and ongoing review of the chosen supply chain management strategy are essential. How does your logistics management make decisions? Unfortunately, important strategic decisions are too often made under time pressure or without sound information. This inevitably has an impact on the company’s costs.

Logistics networks under the microscope

ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH puts your logistics networks to the test and develops sustainable concepts to increase efficiency.

As a logistics consultant, ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH is happy to help you achieve planning reliability and cost efficiency through strategic simulation. Our extensive know-how and the use of highly developed simulation systems ensure a comprehensive assessment of all risks and answer all your questions.

Typical questions

• Is the existing logistics structure still optimal by today’s standards?
• Which locations and logistics networks will still make sense in the future?
• What are the implications of future influences?
• How can risks be assessed and minimised?

 

Optimization of logistics networks – Range of services:

• Simulation of
  • greenfield scenarios (modelling of logistics networks)
  • with limited degrees of freedom (definition of actual locations) and optimisation of the entire supply chain
• Investigation of alternative supply concepts
• Site evaluation
• Centralisation versus decentralisation decision making
• Design and development of new network structures
• Strategy development – from ACTUAL to GOAL
• Merger and expansion planning
• Implications of outsourcing and/or integrating businesses

The goal of any logistics optimisation and sustainable logistics network design can be summarised in a few words:

“The aim is to balance competing objectives in an overall cost-optimised logistics structure while ensuring the best possible service level for the customer.”

Logistics management with care

The major challenge for logistics management in optimising logistics networks is to take into account the often conflicting individual objectives and to achieve an optimum in terms of total costs. The potential lever for reducing total supply chain costs is set at the outset. Due to a lack of transparency, many companies are unaware of the specific costs and risks in their logistics networks, which can lead to costly wrong decisions over months and years. Achieving visibility into transport logistics, from procurement to delivery to the customer and any returns, is becoming the key to cost optimisation. Farsightedness is essential in logistics management, as time constraints and the flexibility of individual processes are also of considerable importance.

With the simulation systems developed by ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH, all relevant variables are taken into account in different bandwidths in order to analyse their impact on the company’s objectives for sustainable logistics networks. Professional simulation helps your company to minimise the costs of all processes and to identify potential risks in good time. In this way, logistics networks are optimised as models for their future viability.

Reduce potential risks by optimising logistics networks

These risks for logistics networks include, in particular, variable factors that affect the form or cost of logistics processes. Logistics management or supply chain management must take this into account. Typical examples are rising energy prices or fluctuations in labour availability and costs, which are difficult to predict for months and years ahead. ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH helps you to realistically assess these high-risk situations and to incorporate them into strategic considerations for your transport logistics and the entire supply chain.

Potential risks

Long-term commitment through property or staff

• High capital expenditure / long-term payment obligations
• Supply risk / protection against redundancy

Excessive costs in logistics network due to wrong choice of location

• Excessive transport logistics costs
• Sub-optimal location factors

Poor service levels in the logistics network

• Too long response times
• Too long transport routes
• Loss of sales potential

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Conclusion: Any logistics optimisation must take into account the sustainable reorientation of your logistics network. Supply chain management must take into account potential risks for the selected logistics locations as well as strategic disadvantages in transport logistics.

More efficiency for logistics networks – strategies from ACTUAL to TARGET

Supply chain management and sustainable logistics networks: So that strategies can be further developed: First, we use logistics network models to establish the medium-term target situation as part of network optimisation. On this basis, we design one or more locations in the network. Then, based on the current situation, we design a development strategy to achieve the target.

This is done, for example, by reviewing existing leases and notice periods. The same applies to the sensible planning and implementation of expansions, conversions or new buildings on the site, without jeopardising ongoing operations.

Logistics networks are constantly changing, which is why we determine the investment and the resulting impact for each observation period and each measure.

The end product is a professionally prepared supply chain management plan. This shows the client in detail how the current situation can be transformed into the medium-term logistical target situation of its logistics network.

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Unlock the full potential and optimise your logistics operations

Decide for yourself and see if you can answer the following questions with confidence for your current logistics network:

• Are my yields right and am I competitive?
• What are the cost structures of my peers?
• Is my supply chain already optimised or is there room for improvement?
• What opportunities for efficiency and cost savings have already been taken or are still needed in the future?
• What aspects are relevant for creating sustainable transport logistics?

ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH can help you answer these questions, which are crucial to the long-term success of any logistics company. With ORGAPLAN Logistik GmbH, you will not only review the status quo of your logistics network, but you will also develop well-founded programmes of measures to exploit all optimisation potential in the supply chain. With more than 35 years of experience in the evaluation of logistics services, versatile software tools for site simulation and relevant market and industry knowledge, we would like to become your trusted partner!