Balance demand and capacity at all stages of the supply chain
W2MO enables transparency, whether you want to secure your production supply, optimize your distribution network, or monitor and control the capacities of your supply chain. Innovative and powerful algorithms boost your efficiency.
Digital Twin of Supply Chain
Lack of transparency in supply chain operations often causes inefficiencies. Consolidation potential, stock requirements and supply options are observed locally and separately. W2MO enables complete visibility throughout the entire supply chain, efficiently minimizing risks and elements of uncertainty. It reduces stock and helps to make optimal decisions in terms of costs and capacity. The W2MO integrated resource monitor helps to achieve an overview of stock and capacity. Shortages or overstocks as well as bottlenecks are made visible in all the processes. Data sources such as SAP can be integrated in real-time.
Regardless of whether supply chain management decisions are made centrally or locally, transparency is the key to efficiency. Through the digital twin, all existing and relevant data sources are combined once and the data is then automatically updated. Hence, the digital twin is always ready for analysis and can be used immediately as a sandbox for scenario evaluations when quick decisions are needed in an agile supply chain.
Optimized Material Flow Planning and Control
Complex cost and capacity structures, as well as interactions and constraints between individual players, present major challenges in determining optimal material and goods flows in logistics networks. W2MO calculates optimized product flows on an order basis and simulates the resulting costs, workloads and inventories. Multi-level bill of materials and material-specific production capacities are taken into account if necessary. Extensive analysis capabilities allow for quick identification of cost drivers. W2MO’s planning tools range from an interactive, heuristics-based approach to sophisticated optimization algorithms. The quality of the planning is compared and ensured by different scenarios and planning alternatives. Evaluations and visualizations can be easily integrated into presentations. Therefore, stakeholders from all areas can access the results.
Based on the optimized product flows, an optimal supply plan can be calculated for each individual customer on a tactical level. Allocation of optimal production quantities per location can be done with consideration of all necessary constraints.
Freight Cost Controlling
The most cost-effective shipping rate will be selected from the range of available transportation contracts for each package. This selection process does not only consider equivalent shipping rates but is also able to calculate and directly compare the resulting costs of weight, volume, or distance-based fees in different zones, as well as even more complex pricing structures such as number of parking places or required loading meter. The calculated freight costs per package can also be compared to the actual costs.
Freight Optimization and Package / Load Builder
Mapping of the cheapest possible packages and pallets is a challenging and mathematically complex task. On the one hand, shipping volume should be minimized to avoid shipping “air”, while on the other hand, the stability of pallets, boxes, and containers should be considered. Based on the given restrictions, W2MO automatically calculates how packages have to be constructed and creates an entire step-by-step visualization of the packaging scheme in 3D. The system considers not only exact dimensions but also criteria such as stacking factors, compressibility, and fragility. A packaging scheme can be calculated in stages, with articles packed in shipping containers, formed packages stacked on pallets, and these eventually forming a truckload.