Distribution Network Design Optimization uses AI to simulate and optimise the warehouse, distribution centre, and transport lane configuration that minimises total logistics cost while meeting service level requirements, enabling strategic network decisions grounded in data, by modelling demand flows, transport costs, and facility economics under scenario constraints, across distribution planning and supply chain strategy workflows.
Distribution network design decisions are made using manual scenario analyses in spreadsheets, covering a small number of alternatives over weeks of analysis. Changing demand patterns, new customer locations, and fuel cost shifts make the network configuration suboptimal within years of a design decision, but re-optimisation is too expensive to run frequently.
The AI models the distribution network as a cost-flow optimisation problem and evaluates large numbers of facility configuration and transport lane scenarios against service level and cost objectives. Pareto-optimal alternatives are presented with cost and service trade-off breakdowns for strategic decision review.
Total end-to-end logistics cost decreases; service level compliance rate improves.
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