LOGISTICS SIMULATION LTD

Warehouses that are choked with SKUs or filled to throughput capacity are often experiencing changes such as acquisition, business growth, increasingly frequent orders, more variable demand, drive to save costs, or a move to a new facility. Logistics Simulation Ltd. analyses the impact of the change allowing a window into the future and better resource management.

Optimising current facilities involves auditing the current site to review the layout and operating practices. We will analyse detailed despatches and receipts data for productivity benchmarking, labour hours and service level. For existing proposals we can cost out alternative layouts, equipment and systems changes.

The day to day running of an existing transport network may require sub-optimisation, and the operational staff may not have the resources to review the whole network. Logistics Simulation Ltd. are experts in transport modeling and network optimisation, and will strategically analyse your network regardless of size or complexity.

By taking existing despatch data and constructing the entire network inside a model, transport costs can be calculated, either based on industry standards and distances travelled, or based on the clients own costs and distances. The model interacts with routing and scheduling software as part of the analysis. By equating costs to distance travelled, it is possible to change the network structure and calculate a set of new transport rates for new routes formed. The database model consolidates drop points together onto a single load within a set of pre-defined regions, and for multiple warehouses customers can be assigned to a warehouse based on the optimum fit, for lowest total costs.