Supply Chain Guru Software
Data Structure
The following data is needed to input into Supply Chain Guru to model and optimize and simulate strategic supply chain designs:
Network Structure
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Products - weight, cubic and sales price
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Sites - location, type of site, costs and capacities
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Demand - time and place it occurs, customer ordering site, order quantity and required product and required delivery date
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Network Policy
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Inventory Policy - where (if at all) is inventory stocked, how often is it counted, when is it reordered, inbound handling costs, outbound handling costs
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Sourcing Policy - where do orders for re-supply get handled, which site supplies which products
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Transportation Policy - how are products transported (LTL, full truckload, scheduled shipments) and how much do shipments cost
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Manufacturing |
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Black box: simple manufacturing lead time and production costs are used
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Process submodels: manufacturing process is modeled using work centers with specific capacities, shared resources and simple set up delays
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Detailed material handling submodels: every detail of the manufacturing process is modeled, including material handling and labor, detailed setup and work times, labor on scheduled shifts
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The layout map, a feature of Supply Chain Guru, showing various sites throughout the United States and Mexico.
A layout map view of sourcing policies between several sites in the United States, South America, Europe and Africa.
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Optional Modeling Elements
There are many other optional modeling elements that can be included to increase the accuracy and detail of the supply chain design to be evaluated. Once the model has been simulated, the user can get detailed statistics on almost every aspect of the model's performance. Some of the standard outputs produced by the model include:
Financial Summary Report
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Network profits, total revenues and total costs.
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Detailed network wide expenses, including production costs, transportation costs, inventory carrying costs and warehousing costs (inbound and outbound)
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Detailed financials split out by site (for all products), and by product (for all sites): production, warehousing, inventory and transportation costs
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Inventory Levels |
Detailed time series graphs of actual inventory levels by product and site and as far as the model is run
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Data tables of inventory actual levels by product and site for the entire run
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Aggregated inventory investment, by site and for the entire network and the entire model run
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Warehousing space utilization, in cubic units for each site in the model and the entire length of the run
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Customer Service Rates/Levels |
Customer sales, aggregated by network, product or site
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Customer service rates, based on set due date or order cycle time target
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Lost sales due to stock outs, split out by network, products or sites
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Time series graphs of units back ordered, by product by site or aggregated
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Data tables of units back ordered, by product by site or aggregated
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Additionally, statistics about specific manufacturing work center utilization, work resource utilization, transportation lane utilization and transportation asset utilization are available.
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The Supply Chain Guru single scenario graph feature with the ability to display inventory levels, order up to, reorder points and more. |
Supply Chain Guru can operate as a completely stand alone application. It uses ProModel's market leading simulation program as the simulation component "under the hood." Supply Chain Guru essentially builds ProModel models, runs them and reads the output, performing the role of "simulation expert" for the user. The user never writes any code or does any programming. If a user wishes to examine the actual model code, or perhaps even modify and change the underlying model, they can simply open the Guru-generated simulation model in ProModel. A run time version of ProModel is included with every Guru installation to support this additional modeling capability.
With Supply Chain Guru, important and potentially risky strategic changes to the network can be quantified, evaluated and selected in a safe modeling environment.
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For more information, please email PMC's Supply Chain Guru team:
or telephone 313-441-4460 x1180.
