Every Supply Chain is Unique, Capture Yours!
Every Supply Chain is Unique, Capture Yours!
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Every Supply Chain is Unique Your market, customers, products and business model dictate the requirements to your supply chain. Almost everything that distinguishes you from the competitors has an impact on the supply chain. Your supply chain is your diffeentiator as it is difficult to reproduce and it is seamlessly integrated with all of your companies specific business processes. The supply chain is the backbone of your business. This is what makes your company different and enables you to maintain your competetive advantage. To maintain a leading position within your market(s), the supply chain should be carefully designed, continuously analyzed and adjusted to changing environments. To do this, your supply chain optimization software has to be able to capture the uniqueness of your network as well as produce results as fast as possible.
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A Whole NEW Approach: Inside-Out vs. Outside-In Every supply chain is unique. Capturing yours means representing
By using the "Inside-Out" approach, simulating all aspects of
every aspect of the network and how components interact with
the supply chain by including the details from the inside and
each other is crucial. Historically analytical tools with proprietary
experimenting with models that accurately represent your supply
methods often generalize and even oversimplify the reality of the
chain lets you optimize in the virtual space BEFORE expensive
supply chain because they try to optimize from the "Outside-In".
change or investment is made reducing the risk of assumptions
You can create models and try to optimize them but are removed
by capturing all of the complexities that make your supply chain
from the details simply because the traditional methods do not
unique. In other words, you can plan for the best locations of the
allow for it. It is only AFTER the investment has been made that
faucets and outlets BEFORE you build the walls in the home!
you can actually look at the real world details. In other words, trying to optimize your supply chain from the "Outside-In" is like trying to build a home without planning for plumbing and electrical and assume you can figure out where everything will go AFTER the house has been built. This is risky as any significant change can be very expensive and limits you with minimal influence on real improvement.
Pioneering multimethod modeling technology, anyLogistix™ (ALX) enables you to utilize more than one approach to simulate and optimize every facet of your supply chains ecosystem giving you the ability to clearly make a difference and capture the performance improvements that make an impact on your business.
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Multimethod Supply Chain Optimization Software
anyLogistix™ (ALX) is the only multimethod supply chain optimization software for supply chain network design, analysis, and optimization. anyLogistix™ combines traditional analytical optimization approaches together with innovative simulation technologies offering six powerful methods that coincide to describe your supply chain with a greater level of detail. This approach empowers you with the tools for a more comprehensive analysis to give you a competitive edge with your supply chain optimization. anyLogistix™ simulation technology is powered by AnyLogic, the industry leading multimethod modeling software that is the corporate standard for simulation and modeling in many Fortune 500 companies.
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Why Multimethod?
ANALYTICAL METHODS
SIMULATION MODELING METHODS
Using analytical methods to model your supply chain will work, but do not tell the whole story. You will use formulas, equations and proprietary methodologies to get quick results, but will have to make assumptions and generalizations on many details which make your supply chain unique because they cannot be accurately represented. Subsequently this may leave you with the additional challenge of proving that your simulation produces accurate results and the model itself is relevant.
Simulation modeling methods allow you to consider all of the details and specific traits of your supply chain and its elements. Not only will you be able to visualize network operations but also trace every process inside. However, the simulation modeling software you choose must be powerful enough to easily model and simulate the complexities of the supply chains.
With anyLogistix™, you do not need to decide between the methods as you may use both of them depending on the supply chain problem you address. All this enables you to gain deeper insights into your supply chain than is not possible with traditional software solutions.
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“Simulation”… The REALITY of the Situation
In the supply chain optimization software industry, virtually every tool provider claims their software solution provides “simulation” capabilities. The word “simulation” has become a very generic term, and subsequently it does not always represent reality. In many supply chain software solutions, “simulation” simply means a sensitivity analysis, simple data input manipulation, and/or visualization. It is not truly a “simulation” that allows you to perform dynamic simulation to conduct “what-if” scenarios that allow you to optimize the results for production. A far stretch from reality! It is like saying all means of transportation are the same, but the capabilities of a bike do not come close to that of a car. Unlike other tools, anyLogistix™ provides the true power of simulation.
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Counting any restrictions
anyLogistix™ Technology
Describe restrictions as they are. Do not spend your time and effort trying to “translate” them into formulas.
Model any behavior Every supply chain is unique and comes with unique behaviors. Simulation with modeling allows you to capture the idiosyncrasies at every level of detail.
SCENARIOS
Check results instead of trusting them GREENFIELD ANALYSIS
ANALYTICAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
SIMULATION
SIMULATIONBASED RISK ANALYSIS
SIMULATIONBASED NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
Thanks to their interactivity, anyLogistix™ models not only allow you to see the outcome, but to investigate how you come to it. SIMULATIONBASED WHAT-IF ANALYSIS
Cause-and-effect dependencies Take into account causalities in your supply chain to reflect its behavior correctly.
RESULTS
DECISION MAKING
The core of anyLogistix™ is the multimethod technology – the powerful
Risk reduction analysis Simulation modeling technologies of anyLogistix™ allow you to capture the random behavior of your network, which means evaluating and reducing risks.
Visualization
using a single method for analysis is like “solving problems with the
Your model is not a black box. The animation allows you to see how the model works, which makes your results trustworthy. Also, it allows you to trace and solve problems in the model yourself, without having to call the support team.
same level of thinking that created them” - Albert Einstein. anyLogistix™
Diverse experiments
provides you with a toolkit to choose the right instruments for any supply
Change the network design, ordering and transportation policies yourself to check what-if scenarios, test sensitivity of your supply chain to environment changes, and more.
alliance of the six analytical and simulation-based modeling methods. Each optimization method is best suitable for particular tasks. However
chain problem you may face. In anyLogistix™, three analytical methods complement three simulation methods allowing you to uncover the most precise results for any supply chain planning problem.
Ultimate flexibility Quickly amend and extend the behavior of supply chain elements in anyLogistix™ or using AnyLogic™ Professional to add more details to the model.
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anyLogistix™ Technology
Extensibility and Flexibility Most of the supply chain optimization packages use only analytical modeling methods. This means they are based on mathematical formulas and are inflexible by nature – they have to be focused on solving a particular problem. If your challenge differs from the standard case, it will require a change the mathematical model. However, since this type of change is virtually impossible you will likely need to look for a workaround. With anyLogistix™, it is you who decides what factors to consider when modeling your network. It allows you to build supply chain models with a set of predefined policies and behaviors of network elements/objects/ sites/ as well as easily extending them to the level of detail required by the problem.
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anyLogistix™ Technology Add More Details to Your Supply Chain Model Thanks to its flexibility, anyLogistix™ allows you to model any element of a supply chain with any level of details you may need: • Manufacturing processes at a production site, taking into account conveyors, pipelines, workers, machine-tolls, working schedules, etc. • Warehouses and distribution centers, considering orderpicking algorithms, layouts, the number of forklift trucks, workers, the number of gates, etc. • The consumer market, discovering what influences customer decisions and what factors affect demand in the market. To sum up, anyLogistix™ can be used to optimize and analyze any supply chain as well as the processes that encompass the entire ecosystem.
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anyLogistix™ Technology Enhance Your Existing Solutions Integrate anyLogistix™ with other solutions that you use to manage your
YOU
supply chain, adding powerful multimethod optimization technology to your toolset to improve accuracy and efficiency in decision making. For example, anyLogistix™ can work together with the following software: • Supply chain management • ERP
EXPERIMENTS
• Business intelligence • Transportation management • Demand forecasting • Production planning • Inventory management Add the power of anyLogistix™ to your existing software strategy to make planning and analysis more efficient!
YOUR SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
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What Can You Achieve with anyLogistix™? anyLogistix™ supply chain optimization software allows users to address a broad range of problems: • Locate projected network elements. • Modify/redesign supply chain (close/open/modify sites). • Manage inorganic growth (merger and acquisition case). • Optimize product flows. • Measure the influence of a new product/BOM introduction. • Analyze sourcing and inventory strategies. • Improve transportation policies. • Minimize risks across the whole supply chain. • Analyze real capacity of the site (not only flows or throughput) • Do detailed supply chain budgeting
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What is Your Business? Are you a retailer, producer, distributor or logistics operator? Perhaps you combine two or more of these roles? In any case, the supply chain is the backbone of your business and efficiency directly depends on that. anyLogistix™ can help you design, modify, analyze, and optimize your supply chain taking into account all the specifics of your business, providing a framework for continuous improvements.
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Who We Are
We are the AnyLogic Company – a multinational team operating from the US and Europe. Our multimethod supply chain optimization technology has its roots in the multimethod simulation modeling, which we first ever made possible with AnyLogic simulation software in the year 2000. The idea of multimethod is simple: seamlessly integrate and combine different methods for problem-solving to overcome drawbacks of individual methods and provide powerful and flexible decision support software to users. However, its implementations took years of research and development to make AnyLogic’s success possible. Today, more than 700 companies worldwide, including many from the Fortune 500 list, choose AnyLogic for its capability with multimethod simulation. As multimethod technology grows within the business, the natural progression and customer demand has driven AnyLogic to create a powerful platform to address supply chain problems at a new qualitative level – this is how anyLogistix™ was born.
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5 Reasons Why Traditional Analytical Supply Chain Software Is Obsolete It cannot take into account all supply chain restrictions and specifics as not all of them can be described with formulas. It is a “black box”. You provide an input and get an output. The ways to verify the output are very limited and you have to trust the accuracy of the results. Visualization that could help you verify that your model describes the real-world supply chain correctly is very limited nor does it allow for you to watch the dynamics of the system in action. Model developers are restricted to pre-defined generalizations by the software vendors and often left with no way to consider additional rules and policies. Analyzing model assumptions cannot be challenged and modelers must rely on outside service providers for change management.
AnyLogic North America
AnyLogic Europe
20 N Wacker Dr. Suite 2044
67 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
Chicago, IL 60606 USA
77210 Avon-Fontainebleau, France
Phone: 312-635-3344
Phone: +33 1 60 71 60 58 +33 7 60 60 09 12
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Every Supply Chain is Unique Your market, customers, products and business model dictate the requirements to your supply chain. Almost everything that distinguishes you from the competitors has an impact on the supply chain. Your supply chain is your diffeentiator as it is difficult to reproduce and it is seamlessly integrated with all of your companies specific business processes. The supply chain is the backbone of your business. This is what makes your company different and enables you to maintain your competetive advantage. To maintain a leading position within your market(s), the supply chain should be carefully designed, continuously analyzed and adjusted to changing environments. To do this, your supply chain optimization software has to be able to capture the uniqueness of your network as well as produce results as fast as possible.
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A Whole NEW Approach: Inside-Out vs. Outside-In Every supply chain is unique. Capturing yours means representing
By using the "Inside-Out" approach, simulating all aspects of
every aspect of the network and how components interact with
the supply chain by including the details from the inside and
each other is crucial. Historically analytical tools with proprietary
experimenting with models that accurately represent your supply
methods often generalize and even oversimplify the reality of the
chain lets you optimize in the virtual space BEFORE expensive
supply chain because they try to optimize from the "Outside-In".
change or investment is made reducing the risk of assumptions
You can create models and try to optimize them but are removed
by capturing all of the complexities that make your supply chain
from the details simply because the traditional methods do not
unique. In other words, you can plan for the best locations of the
allow for it. It is only AFTER the investment has been made that
faucets and outlets BEFORE you build the walls in the home!
you can actually look at the real world details. In other words, trying to optimize your supply chain from the "Outside-In" is like trying to build a home without planning for plumbing and electrical and assume you can figure out where everything will go AFTER the house has been built. This is risky as any significant change can be very expensive and limits you with minimal influence on real improvement.
Pioneering multimethod modeling technology, anyLogistix™ (ALX) enables you to utilize more than one approach to simulate and optimize every facet of your supply chains ecosystem giving you the ability to clearly make a difference and capture the performance improvements that make an impact on your business.
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Multimethod Supply Chain Optimization Software
anyLogistix™ (ALX) is the only multimethod supply chain optimization software for supply chain network design, analysis, and optimization. anyLogistix™ combines traditional analytical optimization approaches together with innovative simulation technologies offering six powerful methods that coincide to describe your supply chain with a greater level of detail. This approach empowers you with the tools for a more comprehensive analysis to give you a competitive edge with your supply chain optimization. anyLogistix™ simulation technology is powered by AnyLogic, the industry leading multimethod modeling software that is the corporate standard for simulation and modeling in many Fortune 500 companies.
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Why Multimethod?
ANALYTICAL METHODS
SIMULATION MODELING METHODS
Using analytical methods to model your supply chain will work, but do not tell the whole story. You will use formulas, equations and proprietary methodologies to get quick results, but will have to make assumptions and generalizations on many details which make your supply chain unique because they cannot be accurately represented. Subsequently this may leave you with the additional challenge of proving that your simulation produces accurate results and the model itself is relevant.
Simulation modeling methods allow you to consider all of the details and specific traits of your supply chain and its elements. Not only will you be able to visualize network operations but also trace every process inside. However, the simulation modeling software you choose must be powerful enough to easily model and simulate the complexities of the supply chains.
With anyLogistix™, you do not need to decide between the methods as you may use both of them depending on the supply chain problem you address. All this enables you to gain deeper insights into your supply chain than is not possible with traditional software solutions.
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“Simulation”… The REALITY of the Situation
In the supply chain optimization software industry, virtually every tool provider claims their software solution provides “simulation” capabilities. The word “simulation” has become a very generic term, and subsequently it does not always represent reality. In many supply chain software solutions, “simulation” simply means a sensitivity analysis, simple data input manipulation, and/or visualization. It is not truly a “simulation” that allows you to perform dynamic simulation to conduct “what-if” scenarios that allow you to optimize the results for production. A far stretch from reality! It is like saying all means of transportation are the same, but the capabilities of a bike do not come close to that of a car. Unlike other tools, anyLogistix™ provides the true power of simulation.
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Counting any restrictions
anyLogistix™ Technology
Describe restrictions as they are. Do not spend your time and effort trying to “translate” them into formulas.
Model any behavior Every supply chain is unique and comes with unique behaviors. Simulation with modeling allows you to capture the idiosyncrasies at every level of detail.
SCENARIOS
Check results instead of trusting them GREENFIELD ANALYSIS
ANALYTICAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
SIMULATION
SIMULATIONBASED RISK ANALYSIS
SIMULATIONBASED NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
Thanks to their interactivity, anyLogistix™ models not only allow you to see the outcome, but to investigate how you come to it. SIMULATIONBASED WHAT-IF ANALYSIS
Cause-and-effect dependencies Take into account causalities in your supply chain to reflect its behavior correctly.
RESULTS
DECISION MAKING
The core of anyLogistix™ is the multimethod technology – the powerful
Risk reduction analysis Simulation modeling technologies of anyLogistix™ allow you to capture the random behavior of your network, which means evaluating and reducing risks.
Visualization
using a single method for analysis is like “solving problems with the
Your model is not a black box. The animation allows you to see how the model works, which makes your results trustworthy. Also, it allows you to trace and solve problems in the model yourself, without having to call the support team.
same level of thinking that created them” - Albert Einstein. anyLogistix™
Diverse experiments
provides you with a toolkit to choose the right instruments for any supply
Change the network design, ordering and transportation policies yourself to check what-if scenarios, test sensitivity of your supply chain to environment changes, and more.
alliance of the six analytical and simulation-based modeling methods. Each optimization method is best suitable for particular tasks. However
chain problem you may face. In anyLogistix™, three analytical methods complement three simulation methods allowing you to uncover the most precise results for any supply chain planning problem.
Ultimate flexibility Quickly amend and extend the behavior of supply chain elements in anyLogistix™ or using AnyLogic™ Professional to add more details to the model.
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anyLogistix™ Technology
Extensibility and Flexibility Most of the supply chain optimization packages use only analytical modeling methods. This means they are based on mathematical formulas and are inflexible by nature – they have to be focused on solving a particular problem. If your challenge differs from the standard case, it will require a change the mathematical model. However, since this type of change is virtually impossible you will likely need to look for a workaround. With anyLogistix™, it is you who decides what factors to consider when modeling your network. It allows you to build supply chain models with a set of predefined policies and behaviors of network elements/objects/ sites/ as well as easily extending them to the level of detail required by the problem.
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anyLogistix™ Technology Add More Details to Your Supply Chain Model Thanks to its flexibility, anyLogistix™ allows you to model any element of a supply chain with any level of details you may need: • Manufacturing processes at a production site, taking into account conveyors, pipelines, workers, machine-tolls, working schedules, etc. • Warehouses and distribution centers, considering orderpicking algorithms, layouts, the number of forklift trucks, workers, the number of gates, etc. • The consumer market, discovering what influences customer decisions and what factors affect demand in the market. To sum up, anyLogistix™ can be used to optimize and analyze any supply chain as well as the processes that encompass the entire ecosystem.
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anyLogistix™ Technology Enhance Your Existing Solutions Integrate anyLogistix™ with other solutions that you use to manage your
YOU
supply chain, adding powerful multimethod optimization technology to your toolset to improve accuracy and efficiency in decision making. For example, anyLogistix™ can work together with the following software: • Supply chain management • ERP
EXPERIMENTS
• Business intelligence • Transportation management • Demand forecasting • Production planning • Inventory management Add the power of anyLogistix™ to your existing software strategy to make planning and analysis more efficient!
YOUR SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
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What Can You Achieve with anyLogistix™? anyLogistix™ supply chain optimization software allows users to address a broad range of problems: • Locate projected network elements. • Modify/redesign supply chain (close/open/modify sites). • Manage inorganic growth (merger and acquisition case). • Optimize product flows. • Measure the influence of a new product/BOM introduction. • Analyze sourcing and inventory strategies. • Improve transportation policies. • Minimize risks across the whole supply chain. • Analyze real capacity of the site (not only flows or throughput) • Do detailed supply chain budgeting
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What is Your Business? Are you a retailer, producer, distributor or logistics operator? Perhaps you combine two or more of these roles? In any case, the supply chain is the backbone of your business and efficiency directly depends on that. anyLogistix™ can help you design, modify, analyze, and optimize your supply chain taking into account all the specifics of your business, providing a framework for continuous improvements.
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Who We Are
We are the AnyLogic Company – a multinational team operating from the US and Europe. Our multimethod supply chain optimization technology has its roots in the multimethod simulation modeling, which we first ever made possible with AnyLogic simulation software in the year 2000. The idea of multimethod is simple: seamlessly integrate and combine different methods for problem-solving to overcome drawbacks of individual methods and provide powerful and flexible decision support software to users. However, its implementations took years of research and development to make AnyLogic’s success possible. Today, more than 700 companies worldwide, including many from the Fortune 500 list, choose AnyLogic for its capability with multimethod simulation. As multimethod technology grows within the business, the natural progression and customer demand has driven AnyLogic to create a powerful platform to address supply chain problems at a new qualitative level – this is how anyLogistix™ was born.
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5 Reasons Why Traditional Analytical Supply Chain Software Is Obsolete It cannot take into account all supply chain restrictions and specifics as not all of them can be described with formulas. It is a “black box”. You provide an input and get an output. The ways to verify the output are very limited and you have to trust the accuracy of the results. Visualization that could help you verify that your model describes the real-world supply chain correctly is very limited nor does it allow for you to watch the dynamics of the system in action. Model developers are restricted to pre-defined generalizations by the software vendors and often left with no way to consider additional rules and policies. Analyzing model assumptions cannot be challenged and modelers must rely on outside service providers for change management.
AnyLogic North America
AnyLogic Europe
20 N Wacker Dr. Suite 2044
67 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
Chicago, IL 60606 USA
77210 Avon-Fontainebleau, France
Phone: 312-635-3344
Phone: +33 1 60 71 60 58 +33 7 60 60 09 12
