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Location Planning

Is your logistics network ready for current demands?

What other location arrangements would bring improvement?

XCargo location planning supports the analysis of your location structure and helps you optimize it. Data about your customers, suppliers, and orders can be used to determine the most cost-effective arrangement and places for your locations and find the optimum in customer allocation.

Software for Location Planning

  • Determine the best places and number of locations like central and regional warehouses, turnover points, hubs, and service centers, taking transport and warehousing costs into account.
  • Your supply chain model can have one or two stages.
  • Take location capacities into account.
  • Transport cost calculation uses integrated EWS and Map&Guide distance databases, country location costs and degressive cost functions.
  • Potential and fixed locations can be pre-determined.
  • Location and customer assignment based on time and distance.
  • Worldwide location planning based on integrated maps and distance databases.

 

More on Location Planning and Supply Chain Planning by LOCOM:

Planning Software for the Supply Chain
Logistics Consulting for the Supply Chain

Location Planning: Two-Stage Supply Chain

 

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