Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) > Strategic Network Design

Strategic decision support for analysing and designing supply chain networks.

Supply chain masters know the secret to supply chain success—and it starts with the very design of their network. Superior performance is determined by the location and capacity of manufacturing, distribution, and transportation assets. To meet the challenges of expansion, competitiveness, and risk, companies need the ability to continually evaluate and strategically align these assets.

Infor SCM Strategic Network Design fine-tunes your supply chain, helping you determine the optimal number, location, and size of facilities necessary to meet your customer service goals. As new opportunities arise, you’ll have the essential tools to reconfigure your network to changes in demand, supply, labor, transportation, and outsourcing initiatives to sustain a strong, highly competitive supply chain.

A strategic decision-support toolset for analysing and designing supply chain networks, Strategic Network Design offers extensive modeling and optimisation features to help planners design more efficient supply chain networks. You can determine facility location and capacity requirements, evaluate different transportation and inventory strategies, select vendors, mitigate risks, and perform profitability and cost analysis. Plus, interactive map-based graphics and point-and-click functionality simplify the complexities of strategic supply chain planning.

When combined with Tactical Planner , a time-phased strategic planning application that tells you when to buy, when and where to manufacture, and where to hold inventory, you can align demand with your supply planning processes to deliver the most complete, capacity constrained—and cost-effective—supply chain plan.