Network design
Your distribution network was built for a business you no longer run.
The plants, the DCs, the flows between them were set by decisions made years ago, under costs, tariffs, and demand that have since moved. The network still works. The question is whether it still fits, and what it's quietly costing you to leave it as it is.
Below are the questions that bring operators here. Find yours, and we'll show you how to see the answer before you commit the capital.
Which of these is your question?
You didn't wake up thinking "we need network design."
You woke up with one of these. Find yours, and it'll take you to the page that answers it.
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Is our network still the right shape?
The map was drawn years ago, and then it drifted, or something outside moved it. Either way the shape is back in question.
- Where should our plants and DCs sit, given where demand is now?
- What is it costing us to serve each customer from where we serve them today?
- A tariff shift blew up our landed cost, and we're fixing it one country at a time
- We merged two networks and we're paying for two of everything
- We hit the cost number and missed the carbon one, and service is caught in the middle
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Is the network making and moving the right things in the right places?
Not where the sites sit, but what runs through them.
- We've always made this product at this plant, and no one knows if that's right
- Returns get dumped at the nearest DC and we sort them by hand
- Sales promised next-day, and our network was never built to deliver it
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Will the network hold when it's tested?
Looks right on a normal day. The question is the day it isn't.
- The plan only works when everything goes right, and we can't see what happens when it doesn't
- Our cold chain holds temperature by luck and diligence, and I can't prove it holds
- Our critical spares sit where they've always sat, and downtime pays when they're wrong
How we answer all of them
Different questions, one method.
Whether you're redrawing where the sites sit, reassigning what gets made where, or stress-testing what you already run, the work rhymes: we build a model of your distribution network as it behaves, run the scenarios you're weighing, and show you the tradeoffs on the metrics you care about. Cost. Service level. Carbon. Tariff exposure. What holds under a shock.
The model doesn't hand you one right answer. It shows you what each option costs and what it buys, so the call is yours to make with the tradeoffs in front of you instead of behind you.
How we engage
Where you start depends on what you already know
Four ways in. You pick the one that matches where you are, not a track you have to walk from the beginning.
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You're not sure which network question to attack first
Decision workshop. A focused session that surfaces and ranks the network decisions where modeling pays off first, so your first project is the right one.
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You know the decision, and you want it answered once
Scoped project. You bring a specific, high-value question. We handle discovery, build, and validation, then deliver a working model of your network and the tool your team runs on top of it. You keep both.
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You know the decision, and you want your own team to own it
Licensing and training. We license the right tools and train your team to build and run the models in-house, so the capability becomes yours rather than something you keep buying.
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The network question comes back every planning cycle
Managed services. Networks don't sit still. We maintain and evolve the models alongside your team, so scenario runs become part of normal planning instead of a study you commission again each time the ground moves.
Get started
The network you have is the one someone chose years ago.
The fastest way to know whether it still fits is to put your own network in front of the question. Book a call and we'll tell you straight.