Profit Network
Introducing Profit Network 4.6
Now with Unlimited Scenario Modeling
Simplified Data Entry and
Improved Excel and Tableau Analysis
About Profit Network
Profit NetworkTM is a stand-alone planning software package that is used to design the most profitable supply chain network. Profit Network can be used to analyze the placement and location of production facilities, distribution centers, and warehouses over a multi-period planning horizon. Profit Network is used to help firms restructure their supply chains after mergers, periods of rapid growth and in anticipation of geographic or product preference shifts in the market.
Profit Network allows the user to model their existing or proposed supply chain for a geographic area, with its locations, flow limits, and costs. Input data include raw material sources and costs, plant locations, plant production rates and costs, warehouse and distribution center locations and costs and customer locations and anticipated demand.
Want to get the most out of your software? All of our supply chain consultants are seasoned veterans that have years of management-level experience solving complex planning needs for Fortune 500 companies across a range of industries for businesses around the globe. We apply that depth of experience and proven optimization techniques to ensure that your supply chain maximizes customer service and profitability.
Benefits
Network Design TeamWith a state-of-the-art optimization engine powering your model, Profit Network incorporates your real-world operational, sustainability and capital constraints to develop the lowest cost implementable solution. By ensuring an implementable solution, Profit Network helps you focus on practical solutions in your “what if” scenarios. With Profit Network, trading off the sometimes competing priorities of operating cost, sustainability priorities and capital spending limits has never been easier.
Model results can be viewed as tables of flows and costs, in Tableau, Microsoft Access or Excel, and the system provides a visual display of the manufacturing plant, warehouse, and customer locations in service region. Profit Network will also displays your network results in either MS MapPoint or the MapInfo framework.
Features
- Automatically generates an optimal solution for lowest cost or maximum profit
- Use for strategic planning and tactical planning
- Multi-period planning horizon
- Compare multiple scenarios using Excel or Tableau (sold separately)
- Enhanced facilities modeling
- Option to simplify demand data using sales forecast and geographic weighting
- Simplified DC throughput planning using one or many constraints
- Integrated capital planning
- Include tax incentives in the model
- Comprehensive sustainability initiative planning
- Visually see a representation of solution
- Input Data and output data can be read and written to MS Excel, MS Access or SQL Server
- Mapping analysis and presentation
- Greenfield analysis
- Automatic data validation and error alerts
- Even more reporting options
- Easy-to-use interface
Network Design Case Studies
When it comes to designing an optimized supply chain network, there are no cookie-cutter solutions. Every business has a unique set of requirements and those requirements shift often.
Profit Point has been optimizing infrastructure plans across a wide variety of industries and for businesses of all sizes. Below is a sampling of just a few success stories:
- Read about how the Rohm and Haas network optimization plan was able to achieve a 38% reduction in the total number of shipping sites used, resulting in annual savings of several millions of dollars.
- Find out how a Global Beverage Bottler improved their infrastructure planning decisions using Profit Point’s products and services.
- Discover how a Roofing Materials Manufacturer’s Supply Chain Infrastructure was changed to generate achievable annual savings of $1M.
- Understand how a Specialty Chemicals Company identified $700,000 in annual savings by using analytics and optimization-based technologies to support the rationalization of a global warehouse locations and distribution network.
