Why ILOG Supply Chain Applications?

ILOG’s Supply Chain Applications are a packaged suite, called LogicTools, of optimization-based decision support solutions designed to complement and enhance existing investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solutions. These applications help companies make better decisions faster, addressing global supply chain design and sourcing strategies, transportation planning, and the optimal flow and placement of inventory across the end-to-end supply chain.

The LogicTools Suite

The LogicTools Suite of Supply Chain Applications is a robust, easy-to-use and integrated set of planning and scheduling solutions. It helps decision makers quickly build scenarios and troubleshoot models, efficiently optimize large-scale supply chains, and effectively identify and explain the drivers of key supply chain costs. Optimization-based decision support and operations solutions improve the overall decision-making process for an organization’s supply chain.

Key benefits

The LogicTools Suite of Supply Chain Applications helps companies:

• Design the overall supply chain to optimize the number, size and location of plants, warehouses, ports and cross-dock facilities that provide the lowest total supply chain costs

• Develop an optimized sourcing plan when products can be made at multiple sites across the globe

• Develop seasonal build plans that optimize production, inventory, warehousing and logistics costs

• Understand the logistics and warehousing implications of rising fuel prices

• Improve traditional rule of thumb inventory targets and service level policies

• Feed ERP and APS solutions optimal inventory targets on an on-going basis, driving further performance from these systems

• Create transportation plans and schedules that balance transport costs and service in complex freight networks

• Improve production planning and detailed scheduling to better incorporate tank management, cleaning in place (CIP) processes, and multi-dimensional changeovers unique to food and beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industry verticals