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Logistics Network Configuration
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Outline
• What is it?• Methodology
– Modeling– Data Aggregation– Validation
• Solution Techniques.
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The Logistics Network
The Logistics Network consists of:
• Facilities:Vendors, Manufacturing Centers, Warehouse/ Distribution Centers, and Customers
• Raw materials and finished products that flow between the facilities.
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Supply
Sources:plantsvendorsports
RegionalWarehouses:stocking points
Field Warehouses:stockingpoints
Customers,demandcenterssinks
Production/purchase costs
Inventory &warehousing costs
Transportation costs Inventory &
warehousing costs
Transportation costs
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Logistics Design Decisions
• Determine the appropriate number of warehouses
• Determine the location of each warehouse
• Determine the size of each warehouse
• Allocate space for products in each warehouse
• Determine which products customers will receive from each warehouse
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Decision Classifications
• Strategic Planning: Decisions that typically involve major capital investments and have a long term effect
1. Determination of the number, location and size of new plants, distribution centers and warehouses
2. Acquisition of new production equipment and the design of working centers within each plant
3. Design of transportation facilities, communications equipment, data processing means, etc.
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Decision Classifications
• Tactical Planning: Effective allocation of manufacturing and distribution resources over a period of several months
1. Work-force size
2. Inventory policies
3. Definition of the distribution channels
4. Selection of transportation and trans-shipment alternatives
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Decision Classifications
• Operational Control: Includes day-to-day operational decisions
1. The assignment of customer orders to individual machines
2. Dispatching, expediting and processing orders
3. Vehicle scheduling
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Network Design: Key Issues
• Pick the optimal number, location, and size of warehouses and/or plants
• Determine optimal sourcing strategy– Which plant/vendor should produce which product
• Determine best distribution channels– Which warehouses should service which customers
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Objective of Logistics Management
Design or configure the logistics network so as to minimize annual
system-wide cost subject to a variety of service level requirements
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Network Design: Key Issues
The objective is to balance service level against
• Production/ purchasing costs
• Inventory carrying costs
• Facility costs (handling and fixed costs)
• Transportation costs
That is, we would like to find a minimal-annual-cost configuration of the distribution network that satisfies product demands at specified customer service levels.
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Network Design Tools:Major Components
• Mapping– Mapping allows you to visualize your supply chain and solutions
– Mapping the solutions allows you to better understand different scenarios
– Color coding, sizing, and utilization indicators allow for further analysis
• Data– Data specifies the costs of your supply chain
– The baseline cost data should match your accounting data
– The output data allows you to quantify changes to the supply chain
• Engine– Optimization Techniques
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Mapping Allows You to Visualize Your Supply Chain
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Displaying the Solutions Allows you To Compare Scenarios
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Data for Network Design
1. A listing of all products
2. Location of customers, stocking points and sources
3. Demand for each product by customer location
4. Transportation rates
5. Warehousing costs
6. Shipment sizes by product
7. Order patterns by frequency, size, season, content
8. Order processing costs
9. Customer service goals
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Too Much Information
Customers and Geocoding• Sales data is typically collected on a by-customer basis• Network planning is facilitated if sales data is in a
geographic database rather than accounting database
1. Distances
2. Transportation costs• New technology exists for Geocoding the data based on
Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Aggregating Customers
• Customers located in close proximity are aggregated using a grid network or clustering techniques. All customers within a single cell or a single cluster are replaced by a single customer located at the centroid of the cell or cluster.
We refer to a cell or a cluster as a customer zone.
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Impact of Aggregating Customers
• The customer zone balances
1. Loss of accuracy due to over aggregation
2. Needless complexity
• What affects the efficiency of the aggregation?
1. The number of aggregated points, that is the number
of different zones
2. The distribution of customers in each zone.
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Why Aggregate?
• The cost of obtaining and processing data
• The form in which data is available
• The size of the resulting location model
• The accuracy of forecast demand
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Recommended Approach
• Use at least 300 aggregated points
• Make sure each zone has an equal
amount of total demand
• Place the aggregated point at the center of
the zone
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Testing Customer Aggregation
• 1 Plant; 1 Product• Considering transportation costs only• Customer data
– Original Data had 18,000 5-digit zip code ship-to locations
– Aggregated Data had 800 3-digit ship-to locations
– Total demand was the same in both cases
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Comparing Output
Total Cost:$5,796,000Total Customers: 18,000
Total Cost:$5,793,000Total Customers: 800
Cost Difference < 0.05%
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Product Grouping
• Companies may have hundreds to thousands of individual items in their production line
1. Variations in product models and style
2. Same products are packaged in many sizes
• Collecting all data and analyzing it is impractical for so many product groups
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A Strategy for Product Aggregation
• Place all SKU’s into a source-group– A source group is a group of SKU’s all sourced from
the same place(s)
• Within each of the source-groups, aggregate the SKU’s by similar logistics characteristics– Weight– Volume– Holding Cost
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Within Each Source Group, Aggregate Products by Similar
Characteristics
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Test Case for Product Aggregation
• 5 Plants• 25 Potential Warehouse Locations• Distance-based Service Constraints• Inventory Holding Costs• Fixed Warehouse Costs• Product Aggregation
– 46 Original products– 4 Aggregated products– Aggregated products were created using weighted
averages
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Sample Aggregation Test:Product Aggregation
Total Cost:$104,564,000Total Products: 46
Total Cost:$104,599,000Total Products: 4
Cost Difference: 0.03%
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The Impact of Increasing the Number of Warehouses
• Improve service level due to reduction of average service time to customers
• Increase inventory costs due to a larger safety stock
• Increase overhead and set-up costs
• Reduce transportation costs in a certain range
– Reduce outbound transportation costs
– Increase inbound transportation costs
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Industry Benchmarks:Number of Distribution Centers
Sources: CLM 1999, Herbert W. Davis & Co; LogicTools
Avg.# ofWH 3 14 25
Pharmaceuticals Food Companies Chemicals
- High margin product- Service not important (or easy to ship express)- Inventory expensiverelative to transportation
- Low margin product- Service very important- Outbound transportationexpensive relative to inbound
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A Typical Network Design Model
• Several products are produced at several plants.
• Each plant has a known production capacity.
• There is a known demand for each product at each customer zone.
• The demand is satisfied by shipping the products via regional distribution centers.
• There may be an upper bound on total throughput at each distribution center.
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A Typical Location Model
• There may be an upper bound on the distance between a distribution center and a market area served by it
• A set of potential location sites for the new facilities was identified
• Costs:– Set-up costs– Transportation cost is proportional to the distance– Storage and handling costs– Production/supply costs
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Complexity of Network Design Problems
• Location problems are, in general, very difficult problems.
• The complexity increases with
– the number of customers,
– the number of products,
– the number of potential locations for warehouses, and
– the number of warehouses located.
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Solution Techniques
• Mathematical optimization techniques:
1. Heuristics: find “good” solutions, not necessarily optimal
2. Exact algorithms: find optimal solutions
• Simulation models: provide a mechanism to evaluate specified design alternatives created by the designer.
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Heuristics and the Need for Exact Algorithms
• Single product
• Two plants p1 and p2
– Plant P1 has an annual capacity of 200,000 units.
– Plant p2 has an annual capacity of 60,000 units.
• The two plants have the same production costs.
• There are two warehouses w1 and w2 with identical warehouse handling costs.
• There are three markets areas c1,c2 and c3 with demands of 50,000, 100,000 and 50,000, respectively.
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Heuristics andthe Need for Exact Algorithms
Table 1Distribution costs per unit
FacilityWarehouse
P1 P2 C1 C2 C3
W1W2
05
42
32
41
52
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Why Optimization Matters?
D = 50,000
D = 100,000
D = 50,000
Cap = 60,000
Cap = 200,000
$4
$5
$2
$3
$4
$5
$2
$1
$2
Production costs are the same, warehousing costs are the same
$0
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Traditional Approach #1:Assign each market to closet WH. Then assign
each plant based on cost.
D = 50,000
D = 100,000
D = 50,000
Cap = 60,000
Cap = 200,000
$5 x 140,000
$2 x 60,000
$2 x 50,000
$1 x 100,000
$2 x 50,000
Total Costs = $1,120,000
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Traditional Approach #2:Assign each market based on total landed cost
D = 50,000
D = 100,000
D = 50,000
Cap = 60,000
Cap = 200,000
$4
$5
$2
$3
$4
$5
$2
$1
$2
$0
P1 to WH1 $3P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $7P2 to WH 2 $4
P1 to WH1 $4P1 to WH2 $6P2 to WH1 $8P2 to WH 2 $3
P1 to WH1 $5P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $9P2 to WH 2 $4
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Traditional Approach #2:Assign each market based on total landed cost
D = 50,000
D = 100,000
D = 50,000
Cap = 60,000
Cap = 200,000
$4
$5
$2
$3
$4
$5
$2
$1
$2
$0
P1 to WH1 $3P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $7P2 to WH 2 $4
P1 to WH1 $4P1 to WH2 $6P2 to WH1 $8P2 to WH 2 $3
P1 to WH1 $5P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $9P2 to WH 2 $4
Market #1 is served by WH1, Markets 2 and 3are served by WH2
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Traditional Approach #2:Assign each market based on total landed cost
D = 50,000
D = 100,000
D = 50,000
Cap = 60,000
Cap = 200,000
$5 x 90,000
$2 x 60,000
$3 x 50,000
$1 x 100,000
$2 x 50,000
$0 x 50,000
P1 to WH1 $3P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $7P2 to WH 2 $4
P1 to WH1 $4P1 to WH2 $6P2 to WH1 $8P2 to WH 2 $3
P1 to WH1 $5P1 to WH2 $7P2 to WH1 $9P2 to WH 2 $4
Total Cost = $920,000
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The Optimization Model
The problem described earlier can be framed as the following linear programming problem.
Let• x(p1,w1), x(p1,w2), x(p2,w1) and x(p2,w2) be the flows
from the plants to the warehouses.• x(w1,c1), x(w1,c2), x(w1,c3) be the flows from the
warehouse w1 to customer zones c1, c2 and c3.• x(w2,c1), x(w2,c2), x(w2,c3) be the flows from
warehouse w2 to customer zones c1, c2 and c3
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The problem we want to solve is: min 0x(p1,w1) + 5x(p1,w2) + 4x(p2,w1)
+ 2x(p2,w2) + 3x(w1,c1) + 4x(w1,c2)
+ 5x(w1,c3) + 2x(w2,c1) + 2x(w2,c3)
subject to the following constraints: x(p2,w1) + x(p2,w2) 60000
x(p1,w1) + x(p2,w1) = x(w1,c1) + x(w1,c2) + x(w1,c3)
x(p1,w2) + x(p2,w2) = x(w2,c1) + x(w2,c2) + x(w2,c3)
x(w1,c1) + x(w2,c1) = 50000
x(w1,c2) + x(w2,c2) = 100000
x(w1,c3) + x(w2,c3) = 50000
all flows greater than or equal to zero.
The Optimization Model
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The Optimal Strategy
Table 2Distribution strategy
FacilityWarehouse
P1 P2 C1 C2 C3
W1W2
1400000
060000
500000
4000060000
500000
The total cost for the optimal strategy is 740,000.