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Supply Chain - 3 Echelons

This application is an extension of the 2-Echelon application. It demonstrates a more comprehensive use case for optimizing multi-echelon supply chains.

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Supply Chain

Here the supply chain network includes the following:

  • 4 plants,
  • 25 potential warehouse sites,
  • 100 different customer locations,
  • 4 different products are considered.

Each plant can only produce a single product (this can easily be modified). Each customer demands one or more products. Warehouses can handle all products.

The objective is to decide on the best warehouse location to minimize the overall costs consisting of:

  • Transportation costs (from plant to warehouse, from warehouse to customer locations).
  • Warehouse costs (variable and fixed) costs.

This application can be easily tailored to suit various supply chain configurations and constraints, including changes in demand, fixed costs, and transportation costs.

Understanding the Application

In this application, you can:

  • Navigate to explore the input data.
  • Execute various scenarios and visualize/analyze the optimal solutions generated.
  • Compare your scenarios to evaluate the best option.

Data page

This first page presents the input data using:

  • a Table format (open the collapsible Panel "Data in Table Format").
  • a map displaying the various site locations.

The input Tables contain:

  • The list of all the customer sites (with their associated demand).
  • The list of the plants and which products they can produce.
  • The list of all the potential sites for the warehouses.

Data page

Scenario Management

This page allows you to create and modify scenarios. For each scenario, you can adjust parameters such as:

  • The number of warehouses to be used. You will have the option to pre-select some specific warehouses. Conversely, you will also be able to remove some warehouses as possible choices..
  • Adjust demand, fixed costs, and transportation costs as input percentages.
  • After setting the parameters, you can submit the scenario to launch the optimization engine and get the optimal solution.

Scenario Creation

The results include a solution map showing the selected warehouses and the routes used (from plants to warehouses to customers).

Scenario Map

Important KPI metrics are also displayed:

  • total carbon footprint,
  • total cost, and
  • average cost per unit shipped.

The chart at the bottom displays the volume of demand handled by each warehouse and plant and the number of clients assigned to them.

Scenario Sankey

Comparison

This page lets you compare two scenarios by displaying their solution maps and metrics side by side.

Comparison

Global Comparison

Here, you can compare all or selected scenarios using charts representing various metrics, providing a comprehensive overview of the optimization results.

Total Comparison

Admin page

The Admin page allows you to visualize all the data nodes, executed jobs, and scenarios within the application, giving you complete control over managing and monitoring your supply chain optimization processes.

Admin page