Supply Chain Guru™ - Supply Chain
Optimization + Simulation

Supply Chain Guru™ is a unique software application that was developed to provide you with unprecedented capabilities to model, analyze, and optimize your supply chain network design. Network Optimization is a proven technology that evaluates millions of possible network configurations, and finds the most profitable structure that meets your constraints.

Network Simulation is a powerful approach to evaluating inventory, sourcing, transportation and production planning. Network simulation predicts financial metrics, inventory levels over time, customer services rates, individual order fill times, availability rates and many other performance measures.

The power of Optimization + Simulation together is greater than the sum of the parts!

Supply Chain Guru™ uses a single data model. You only need to model the supply chain once, and then apply simulation or optimization as you need to solve your problem.

However, the real power of simulation and optimization together is in the combined approach. With Supply Chain Guru, you can tackle strategic planning projects that are currently either impossible, or take too long to be feasible. A typical supply chain strategic planning project takes a lot of model building effort, often 80% of the project is spent on model building, leaving only 20% on analysis.

Guru automatically builds the simulation and optimization models for you. Model building and data input in Guru lets you spend 20% on model building, and 80% on analysis, where the real value and benefits are to be achieved.

Data Structure
The following data is needed to input into Supply Chain Guru to model and optimize and simulate strategic supply chain designs:

Network Structure
Products - weight, cubic and sales price
Sites - location, type of site, costs and capacities
Demand - time and place it occurs, customer ordering site, order quantity and required product and required delivery date

Network Policy
Inventory Policy - where (if at all) is inventory stocked, how often is it counted, when is it reordered, inbound handling costs, outbound handling costs
Sourcing Policy - where do orders for re-supply get handled, which site supplies which products
Transportation Policy - how are products transported (LTL, full truckload, scheduled shipments) and how much do shipments cost

Manufacturing
Manufacturing can be modeled using one of three different approaches:
Black box: simple manufacturing lead time and production costs are used
Process submodels: manufacturing process is modeled using work centers with specific capacities, shared resources and simple set up delays
Detailed material handling submodels: every detail of the manufacturing process is modeled, including material handling and labor, detailed setup and work times, labor on scheduled shifts

Optional Modeling Elements
There are many other optional modeling elements that can be included to increase the accuracy and detail of the supply chain design to be evaluated. Once the model has been simulated, the user can get detailed statistics on almost every aspect of the model's performance. Some of the standard outputs produced by the model include:

Financial Summary Report
Network profits, total revenues and total costs.
Detailed network wide expenses, including production costs, transportation costs, inventory carrying costs and warehousing costs (inbound and outbound)
Detailed financials split out by site (for all products), and by product (for all sites): production, warehousing, inventory and transportation costs

Inventory Levels

Detailed time series graphs of actual inventory levels by product and site and as far as the model is run
Data tables of inventory actual levels by product and site for the entire run
Aggregated inventory investment, by site and for the entire network and the entire model run
Warehousing space utilization, in cubic units for each site in the model and the entire length of the run

Customer Service Rates/Levels
Customer sales, aggregated by network, product or site
Customer service rates, based on set due date or order cycle time target
Lost sales due to stock outs, split out by network, products or sites
Time series graphs of units back ordered, by product by site or aggregated
Data tables of units back ordered, by product by site or aggregated

Additionally, statistics about specific manufacturing work center utilization, work resource utilization, transportation lane utilization and transportation asset utilization are available.
Supply Chain Guru operates as a stand alone strategic analysis application. In addition to optimization capability, LLamasoft's proprietary simulation program will simulate the performance of the optimized Supply Chain network. Supply Chain Guru automation builds models, runs them and reads the output, performing the role of "simulation expert" for the user. The user never writes any code or does any programming. If a user wishes to examine the actual model code, or perhaps even modify and change the underlying model, they can simply open the Guru-generated simulation user interface.

With Supply Chain Guru, important and potentially risky strategic changes to the network can be quantified, evaluated and selected in a safe modeling environment.

screen shot of Supply Chain Guru

Supply Chain Guru is a Windows-XP, Windows Vista and Windows 2000 compliant application for network modeling, simulation, and optimization in supply chain strategic planning projects. You can download and install Supply Chain Guru directly from this web site.

Supply Chain Guru uses a built in GIS system, simulation engine, and optimization solver. Additionally, all models are contained in SQL compliant databases, making data import and export extremely easy.


 

 

 

 

Layout Map with sites in US & Mexico

The layout map, a feature of Supply Chain Guru, showing various sites throughout the United States and Mexico.

 

Layout Map with sites in the US, South America, Africa, & Europe
A layout map view of sourcing policies between several sites in the United States, South America, Europe and Africa.

 

 

Single Scenario graph

The Supply Chain Guru single scenario graph feature with the ability to display inventory levels, order up to, reorder points and more.



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