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Solutions to Optimize Your Supply Chain Operations INTRODUCTION Executive Summary Strategic optimization of your end-to-end If the Supply Chain and Manufacturing operations were supply chain produces significant savings optimized, many companies could reduce their total and improves your operational service manufacturing and logistics costs by as much as 20% while levels. Effecting this optimization requires maintaining, or even significantly improving, their customer a carefully-considered modeling and service levels. analysis approach and an incremental implementation. Best-in-class companies are continually looking to drive down costs and improve their performance in the face of rapidly- LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru? is the changing market conditions, volatile costs, and dynamic key tool for evaluating supply chain sourcing options. network structures, supply chain policies, and integrated operations to: Strategic optimization or realignment of channel flows and ? Optimize Supply Chain Structure to structural network changes are recognized to be the biggest achieve the lowest cost or the highest source of major cost reductions in global supply chains. But to profit achieve these savings, a company must take a holistic approach to Strategic Planning and Optimization. ? Optimize Supply Chain Policies to minimize operational costs and Supply Chain Network Design is a powerful modeling approach improve service rates which has been proven to deliver significant improvements in ?Simulate Performance to validate the supply chain cost structures and service levels. It incorporates feasibility of supply chain strategies fixed and variable costs for all the main activities and cost drivers in a manufacturing and supply chain network: ?Analyze Risk and Robus