'The bottom line and environment' white paper
The focus has now shifted in many organisations to be purely on the bottom line but cost cutting and saving the environment should go hand-in-hand.
Supply Chain Design
Supply chain design incorporates the design and specification of end-to-end networks, as well as detailed facility design.
Network Design
The service levels required by customers and the economics of supply are constantly changing. Interest rates, oil prices and legislation all influence network (infrastructure) design. As a result, many companies are looking to reorganise their supply chains to become more efficient and improve customer service.
By using a range of sophisticated modelling tools, including CAST and Paragon, Unipart Expert Practices can model supply chain networks accurately, from suppliers through to the end customer. Our optimisation algorithms balance service, cost and assets, and heuristic ‘what if’ scenarios to evaluate supply chain networks.
Warehouse Design
Warehouse design covers four core areas: processes, layout, systems and material handling technology. It deals with customer concerns such as:
- Optimising material and information flows
- Dealing with variability
- Identifying and removing resource bottlenecks
- Product profile changes
- Storage option selection
- Implementing automation
- System choice and implementation
Our tools and techniques allow clients to ‘see’ product flows and evaluate a number of options before making costly physical changes.
We perform detailed analysis and simulations using both peak and average throughputs. From the results, we can accurately model and simulate the impact of various options on labour, material handling equipment and storage scenarios to identify potential bottlenecks, resource requirements and business benefits.
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