Network Designer

Continuously improve the strength and resiliency of your supply chain.

The GAINS platform’s network design capabilities empower businesses to manage and improve the performance of all the assets and moving parts of the supply chain. Through advanced modeling and simulation, the cloud-native solution gives network designers the comprehensive insight needed to understand risks, visualize scenarios and interdependencies, and evaluate tradeoffs that impact costs, delivery times, and service levels.

Discover the difference GAINS makes for finance leaders.

Enhance Visibility

If inventory matters in your business, supply chain costs no doubt significantly impact your company’s profitability. By providing a clear line of sight into the supply chain planning process, GAINS gives CFOs visibility to supply chain cost savings achieved with GAINS including streamlining inventory management, reducing transportation expenses, and minimizing stockouts or excess inventory.

Free Up Working Capital

CFOs need to ensure that the company has sufficient cash flow to meet its operational needs. By aligning supply chain planning with financial forecasting, GAINS makes it easier to predict cash flow requirements and effectively manage working capital, controlling your inventory investments across your network.

Reduce Risk

GAINS provides the insights CFOs need to assess and manage risks associated with volatile supply chain, such as supplier disruptions, geopolitical events, natural disasters, or regulatory changes. By integrating risk management strategies into supply chain design and planning, the GAINS platform empowers CFOs to mitigate potential financial risks from disruptions and ensure business continuity.

GAINS informs or automates millions of supply chain decisions a day.

Key Capabilities

Cloud-native solution

The solution is entirely based in the cloud, allowing for seamless collaboration and enhanced accessibility.

Resiliency planning

GAINS provides tools and resources to plan for disruptions, like natural disasters. Businesses can proactively identify high-risk areas and plan for alternative product flow routes.

 

Product flow optimization

GAINS takes a high-level network view to align and improve the product flow with the needs for service and cost savings.

 

Timely, immediate insight

Access clear insight into cost/service tradeoffs to optimize decisions right away — not months after implementation.

 

Scenario testing

Mitigate this risk by building numerous scenarios in GAINS to determine the one that best aligns with your corporate goals and then operationalize it. Better informed decisions based on scenario testing result in faster and better outcomes.

 

Accessible experts

Our network design team members have sat in your seat as practitioners and can bring their decades of expertise to help you maximize the value of the solution, augment your team, and build playbooks to turn to when the unexpected happens.

 

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