Primarius Resource Management

P-SCOPE Supply Chain Optimisation

 

Optimisation Solutions in

Primarius Resource Management provide specialised solutions to improve supply chain networks - from individual warehouse design and analysis (P - SCOPE Distribution Centre Optimisation Service) to complex multi-modal distribution network design (P-SCOPE Supply Chain Network Optimisation Service). Primarius utilises leading optimisation technologies combined with simulation software to enable testing and further trialling of design concepts.

Primarius’ P-SCOPE Services provide solutions for manufacturing organisations where line feed rates, production layouts, machine and manning configurations and other inputs can impact the efficiency of production lines. Primarius’ Manufacturing Flow Optimisation Service - Advanced Production Scheduling (APS) enables manufacturing facilities to improve efficiencies and costs by optimising production runs (read more).

Supply Chain Optimisation - Network Design Solutions

Supply chain optimisation is all about supporting the business by getting the…

· Right product

· To the right location

· At the right time

· In the right amount and

· At the right cost.

Having too much or too little product, or product that is too costly, can devastate a business. The financial and operational impacts can be immense but difficult to analyse amongst the noise created by the problem. The number and complexity of issues impacting the ability of a business to reach anywhere near optimum levels of efficiency are immense. Primarius recognise this complexity and have developed specialised modelling tools to solve sophisticated planning problems. Primarius’ solution centres around the utilisation of improved Supply Chain Network Design to model and develop best in class systems.

Supply Chain Network Design is an important area requiring the balancing of many factors to produce best results. Network Design delivers significant operational and financial benefits to an organisation by simultaneously modelling many different criteria and planning scenarios and providing optimised solutions such as:

• How many stocking locations for product are required?
• Where should the Production or Assembly facilities be located?
• What are the optimum product replenishment modes?
• How many Suppliers should be utilised?
• What Markets should have more - or less - focus on?
• What are the impacts if business drivers like growth or costs change?

P-SCOPE Supply Chain Network Optimisation Service

To enable businesses to optimise and gain visibility all of these factors and more, Primarius have designed P-SCOPE “Primarius - Supply Chain OPtimisation Engine”.

P-SCOPE simultaneously looks at all costs, revenue and constraints to determine the best supply chain for a given set of circumstances. A business can use this to drive down costs, synchronise its supply chain or understand where the threats and weaknesses of a business lie using ‘What-if’ scenario planning.

P-SCOPE can model incredibly large and complex systems. Although impossible to outline comprehensively as each system is different and would use structures differently, some examples are:

Resource cost structures which could have conditional minimum use, and/or marginal cost for increased use,

Complex production recipes for resource and product use including multiple echelons to allow for sub-assembly,

Positioning of resources, for example hire/de-hire of empty shipping containers,

Unlimited supply chain lengths to allow reverse logistics and value-adding activities, like pack-to-store, or bulk-to-package bagging

As well as understanding the supply chain, P-SCOPE can answer burning strategic questions to allow an organisation to anticipate changes to the market or events. Examples could be…

What is the best supply chain if demand grows by X% in markets A, B & C and decreases by Y% in markets D, E & F or any mixture?

What if Road Transport rates increate by Z% in response to fuel increases?

What cost is the organisation incurring or saving by placing stock close to the market in a number of locations rather than in a central DC?

What cost would be incurred as a result of a change in customer service expectations? and

What impact would a change in the mix of product and lines/quantity per order have?

P-SCOPE handles large complex systems which can’t be effectively modelled in spreadsheets.