No matter how good your supply chain planning is, you can’t plan your way out of a bad supply chain design. With supply chain design you can step back and assess the full supply chain picture, ask “what if?” and test the limits, and shift your efficiency curve to a new level.  

Supply chain designers need effective software solutions that address these common supply chain design frustrations:

• Risk ignorance: Most supply chain design solutions focus on delivering adequate service at the lowest cost—and ignore risk. 
• Limited scalability and sharing: Traditional supply chain design software ties users to a desktop computer, limiting the ability to share, update, and scale. 
• Lack of processing power and speed: Sensitivity analysis is cumbersome and often neglected due to limited processing power available to test multiple scenario variations. 
• Frustrations with current provider: The software provider you use now isn’t focused on supply chain design and does not have the expertise needed to move your organization forward. They are slow to introduce new features and don’t prioritize your needs. 
• Expensive and no way to test: Traditional supply chain design software can be cost prohibitive and difficult to test it out before making a purchasing decision.

At Optilogic, we say there are two types of supply chains: the one you have, and the one you need. Cosmic Frog’s supply chain design software allows you to explore the “what ifs” of your supply chain and build systems that can withstand inevitable disruptions. Run scenarios, rate and quantify risk, and create the optimal supply chain design for your unique needs and priorities. 

This post explores how the right supply chain design tools can optimize your network design and help you achieve your KPIs. 

Are you looking for supply chain design that considers all aspects of a profitable, sustainable network design? Create your free trial Cosmic Frog account today to get started with the fastest, most powerful supply chain design software on the market.

Cosmic Frog

Cosmic Frog is the better way to design your supply chain. The Optilogic solution is 100% SaaS-based for easy access and collaboration and uses hyperscaling technology to allow hundreds of models and scenarios to run in parallel, including automated sensitivity analysis at the click of a button.  

Let’s take a closer look at the particulars that differentiate Cosmic Frog from the rest.

Key Feature 1: Cosmic Frog Risk Engine Considers Risk and Includes a Risk Rating for Every Scenario

Most design platforms optimize for cost and ignore other crucial factors like sustainability and risk.  

Cosmic Frog is the only supply chain design solution that allows users to evaluate trade-offs across cost, service, risk, sustainability, and other factors, and provides an automatic risk rating for every scenario.  

Cosmic Frog’s risk engine is integrated to external data sources for natural disaster, political and economic stability, nuclear and biolab proximity, and more.

The risk engine also identifies areas of high demand concentration, single sourced products, and other factors that introduce potential risks. 

All this rolls up into a Opti-Risk score, providing a clear comparison of risk associated with all scenarios—with a simple click of the ‘Run’ button.

Use Cosmic Frog to answer these risk-related questions: 

• How does the number of suppliers servicing a customer or percentage of storage capacity used impact your supply chain risk? 
• How does the physical location of a supplier or facility impact your overall risk (e.g. considering potential for floods, droughts, etc.)? 
• How are service and cost affected if demand increases and you run out of capacity at a high-risk DC, or a supplier goes offline? 

Cosmic Frog makes risk awareness simple. No extra work is required to measure and quantify these risk scenarios. Your Opti-Risk score is calculated automatically when you run your Cosmic Frog model. 

After you’ve received your score, you can identify the scenarios that minimize risk while maintaining profitability and service. Then, proactively create contingency plans to prepare for any disruption.

Key Feature 2: Cloud-Based Cosmic Frog is Fast, Hyper Scalable, and Runs Hundreds to Thousands of Scenarios Simultaneously

Your current supply chain design software likely relegates your models to a desktop, limiting your ability to share and scale your network design. Cosmic Frog operates 100% in the cloud and delivers results 40 percent faster than any other solution on the market. Instead of running individual scenarios like typical software (wasting valuable time and resources), our platform can evaluate thousands of possibilities at once, exploring the vast possibilities for your supply chain design. 

Cosmic Frog network optimization models work harder, run faster, and deliver more output data than the competition. All our network optimization runs include risk ratings and cost-to-serve, yet still outperform competitor solutions in model run times. 

That’s because Optilogic algorithms are tuned using the latest technology to solve supply chain problems better than ever, running faster and providing richer outputs.

Cosmic Frog allows you to use Sensitivity at Scale, simulation and sequential optimization to sense and validate future policies, pinpointing the optimal configuration of facility number and locations, warehouse design, inventory management, transportation mode, etc., according to your company’s KPIs. 

Cosmic Frog network optimization helps you: 

• Understand and analyze the movement of products through the supply chain—from sourcing to delivery of goods to customers—to look for opportunities to reduce cost and risk and improve service 
• Weigh the trade-offs of nearshoring strategies 
• Decide how to best to merge multiple supply chain facilities and policies for M&A activities 
• Identify the best transportation routes and modes to minimize cost and maximize service 

To answer questions like these, simply 

Step 1: Create a new model or select a template 

Step 2: Upload your data 

Step 3: Build and run scenarios 

Step 4: Analyze and share scenarios with vivid maps and analytics 

Cosmic Frog streamlines your network design process. Our models empower you to explore unlimited scenarios and hit the ground running with bespoke supply chain design.