Supply Chain Guru is the only supply chain design application that integrates all of the following supply chain optimization and analysis algorithms into a single tool, with a unified database and user-interface. With a single dataset and interface, it supports an iterative, end-to-end modeling cycle for continuous improvement of the supply chain.

Network Optimization

Model building is easier in Supply Chain Guru than with other solutions. Its non-proprietary database can be accessed in Microsoft® Access™ or Microsoft® SQL Server™, and users can create models using actual product and site names rather than using an application generated IDs

Scenario Manager allows users to test multiple what ifs and sensitivities quickly, without the need for copying, pasting and building several models individually. Updates are painless since only a single dataset needs to be refreshed. Make comparisons between scenarios easily from a single dataset that houses all scenario outputs

Custom constraints provide the flexibility to adjust the solver to the algorithm needed for key behaviors such as product flow, facility capacity, inventory, transportation and production

Input pipes keep dynamic external model data fresh by allowing users to take complex data such as transportation costs for source/destination/products or product/plant production costs and create automated links into Supply Chain Guru, without the need for re-creating the tables

Included advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities allows users to map, geocode, route and solve for distance and transit time globally, with support for local languages

Built-in supply chain visualization reports and mapping overlays such as service area and risk metrics can reduce the time it takes to understand complex information

Step functions allow users to easily model different configurations for supply chain elements such as facilities, work centers and transportation assets

Can include multi-time period analysis for use in both long-term capital planning (yearly, five year, etc.) and short term tactical planning (monthly, weekly, etc.)

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization/Demand Classification

LLamasoft inventory optimization doesn’t assume that all demand is “normal”, as other tools do, which can result in either too much or not enough inventory. LLamasoft Inventory Guru, powered by Adaptive Intelligent Inventory Optimization (AI+IO) technology, thoroughly analyzes and automatically classifies the underlying demand patterns. Once the demand patterns are analyzed and classified, the technology applies the appropriate inventory optimization algorithm to set the proper reorder points and quantities that will be required to meet the user-defined service targets.

Key Technology Differentiators

The majority of the global companies recognized as part of the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2013 have designed with LLamasoft.

Source: Gartner, Inc., The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2013, Debra Hofman, Stan Aronow, Kimberly Nilles, May 22, 2013

Developed and supported by the largest organization solely dedicated to supply chain design, LLamasoft® Supply Chain Guru® was created to directly impact user productivity, quality of analysis and the long-term sustainability of modeling and design in your organization.

Supply Chain Analysis Algorithms & Techniques

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Because Inventory Guru is a fully-integrated module in Supply Chain Guru, analysts can test out new inventory strategies using discrete event simulation and perform detailed what-if analysis across the entire end-to-end supply chain.

Includes a true multi-echelon modeling engine that uses the “guaranteed service” algorithms for determining safety stock

Includes multi-time period modeling capabilities to incorporate capacity constraints and determine pre-build or pre-positioning inventory requirements due to seasonality or demand variability

Includes calculations for in-process and in-transit inventory levels

Includes demand analytics to identify variability by product by location

Includes product categorization/segmentation tool to do 2D and 3D segmentation of key product attributes including Velocity, Margin, Demand Variability, Demand Quantity, Cost, Lead Time, etc.

Provide recommended re-order points and order quantity levels for numerous inventory strategies, including RQ, SS, and DOS (days of supply)

Multi-Objective Optimization

Integrated tool within LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru that allows users to quickly view the trade-offs between multiple competing objectives in order to select the best solution

Quickly presents an automated, big-picture view of possible choices, enabling users to optimize the supply chain with a broad view of business goals

Automates the analysis of trade-offs across 19 available objectives

Product Flowpath Optimization

SKU-level MIP/LP optimization solver that scales to handle all products in the supply chain

Can trade off multiple transportation modes, replenishment frequencies, inventory holding costs, and cycle stock to determine a lowest “total landed cost” per product

Includes multi time periods to determine flow changes based on seasonality or capacity constraints

Greenfield Analysis

Determines optimal locations for new plants and distribution facilities

Choose center-of-gravity or service-based (identify minimum quantity and location of DCs along with associated customers based on service distance requirements) optimization

Can consider existing as well as new facilities in a single greenfield model

Inventory Guru graph showing demand profiles

Select the best points on the curve for full scenario analysis

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Modeling

Emissions associated with transportation modes, facility energy usage, and supplier-based emission factors are incorporated directly into the model formulation

Constrains optimization based on emissions

CO2 emissions modeling at vehicle routing level—for total route or for segments

Includes ability to incorporate offset prices and cost of carbon in the model formulation

EPA (US) and Defra (UK) benchmark data available

Discrete Event Simulation: Testing Optimized Scenarios with Real or Forecasted Data

LLamasoft’s integrated discrete event simulation engine is easier to use and more powerful than standard simulation engines and is part of the standard LLamasoft supply chain design workflow

Enables users to take existing Supply Chain Guru models and test them under the stress of real-world day-to-day variability such as transportation delays, production lead times and demand variability

Incorporates probability distributions for all key time, cost and quantity variables

Handles hundreds to thousands of SKUs and annual demand records

Useful for testing network and inventory optimization outputs and for supply chain risk management planning and prediction

Production Modeling

Works with network optimization to right-size production footprint and optimize production capacities across the supply chain

Modeling of all production related data structures such as work centers, work resources, production processes, bill of materials and related production rates, costs and yields

Balancing of production capacities globally and within each facility

Perfect architecture to create what ifs for forecast versions

Platform for optimizing both production capability and capacity at a detail level

Optimize for maximum utilization or highest margin (max profit)

Supports S&OP modeling for near-term realignments

Use simulation to introduce business logic and lead time and demand variability

Facility volumes and demand

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Vehicle Route Planning (VRP)

Detailed transportation network and route modeling

Optimizes inbound and outbound consolidations

Offers solutions for periodic scheduling of vehicle routes

Evaluates cost of travel, cost of fixed assets, road distance, loading/unloading time, possible pickup and delivery time windows, and vehicle characteristics to create more efficient routes and schedules

Balances DC outbound workloads across the week for better labor planning

Helps evaluate routing options offered by 3PL and other logistics providers

Backhaul optimization identifies the most efficient in-bound pick-ups following the last outbound delivery to reduce the overall drive time required

Cloud Solving

For models that are too large, too complex, or involve too many different scenarios to quickly run on a desktop or laptop workstation, LLamasoft offers the K2 Cloud Solver, providing licensed users with a remote solving solution for more processing power and the ability to run multiple scenarios concurrently.

Reduces the need for high power computing resources locally

Take advantage of over 500 solvers to process many scenarios simultaneously

Remote user monitoring and e-mail notifications

K2 Enterprise™ Design Platform

LLamasoft K2 Enterprise is an optional centralized supply chain design platform for Supply Chain Guru users that elevates supply chain modeling from a personal workstation function to an enterprise-wide collaborative design environment. Designed to support supply chain design centers of excellence and global design teams, K2 Enterprise:

Enables centralized, secure access to enterprise data, models and project information for knowledge retention

Saves time and offloads work from individual workstations by running dozens or hundreds of scenarios in parallel in an internal or managed cloud

Is seamlessly integrated with LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru, enabling LLamasoft customers to quickly advance to an enterprise-wide modeling environment

Backhaul optimization identifies the most efficient inbound pick-ups following the

last delivery of an outbound route

Supply Chain Guru leads all other supply chain network design tool in the area of data integration, editing and error checking, which leads to improved modeling speed and accuracy. Centralized project documentation captures all meeting notes, raw data and other important contextual information related to each project and model in one central location for easy access and archiving.

Data Integration Utilities

LLamasoft® Data Guru™ speeds and simplifies the transformation of model data from any external source and creates documented, repeatable, time-saving workflows

Automated Microsoft Excel import/export

Connection to external data sources via ODBC connection or input pipes, which keep dynamic external model data fresh with automated links into Supply Chain Guru

Available connection to SAP® software via Data Guru

LLamasoft® Data Services™ offers modeling reference and benchmark data to reduce model building time

Data Editing

Data filtering and batch editing

Data translation tools

Visual editing and creation of new model data elements

Scenario generation utilities

Error Checking

Data verification and error handling utilities highlights errors in model/data structure and provides hyperlinks directly to the problem areas

Infeasibility detection and troubleshooting tool solves infeasible problems and provides direct links to missing sites, capacity problems, missing transportation lanes, etc.

Data Integration, Data Editing, & Error Checking

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Supply Chain Guru provides a significantly improved user experience with regards to data visualization and reporting, leading to faster and more reliable analysis and communication of results. It is also the only tool that includes a “Visual Modeler” that enables rapid model building and editing directly on a user canvas.

Visual Modeling

Flowchart views of supply chain operations

Ability to edit or “draw” the model with changes incorporated directly into the model database

Ability to visualize the network optimization outputs in a flowchart layout

Visualization and Reporting Tools

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Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping

Global geo-coding capabilities

Global road distance and transit time calculations

Global satellite images or map views with configurable layers for risk indices, service areas, etc.

Includes 11 standard baseline maps, including satellite images, topographical, street level and terrain maps, as well as user-importable baseline maps

Supply Chain Guru supports mapping using Google, Esri, Bing, PC*MILER and nearly any other provider using a simple API connector

Scenario Generation and Reporting:

Ability to create multiple scenarios within a single model database

Ability to adjust any combination of key cost or model element to do sensitivity analysis

Ability to do easy side-by-side reporting of all different modeling scenarios

Update models with a single data refresh rather than refreshing all previous scenarios

Communicate ideas and what ifs via explicitly defined changes to the baseline in Scenario Manager

Pre-Configured Graphs and Reporting

Supply Chain guru includes five reporting metrics (logistics, financial, risk, sustainability and service) for each of the reporting areas below:

Rolled up financials

Production details

Transportation details

Product landed costs

Facility costs

Inventory details

Ad-hoc Reporting

Configurable charts and graphs with access to all cost data

Ability to name and save “favorite” reports

Ability to publish reports to external Microsoft applications

Tabular reports allow users to create pivot tables to auto repopulate data within a model

Integration with Third-Party Reporting Packages

Ability to connect and push data to external data packages such as Tableau, Visokio and Google Earth

Open database for direct reporting on raw data

Service area mapping precisely displays service distance to various geographic regions

Key Technology Differentiators - Supply Chain Guru

LLamasoft is the only company on the market with a 100 percent focus on supply chain design. This fact contributes directly to an improved user experience through better one-on-one support, increased speed of innovation, and an overall knowledge of supply chain design best practices. LLamasoft invests greater than 30 percent of annual revenue in research and development, and typically introduces one major upgrade and two interim releases each year.

Professional Services

LLamasoft offers a full range of professional services, ranging from training to fully executed projects. Our experienced engineers and coaches help clients build models or supplement their existing staff. In addition to basic support we offer:

Senior consultants help companies assess their strategic modeling approach and to suggest alternatives

One-day supply chain design workshops

Data experts to assist in automation of models, connecting to ERP, and analytics outputs

A skilled development team to create new solutions to unique supply chain modeling challenges

An extended network of respected service partners trained in LLamasoft technology and experienced in real-world projects

Training

The new LLamasoft training facility in Ann Arbor, Mich. features expert-led product training courses as well as instruction in strategic supply chain modeling techniques and methodologies. It's the perfect setting for coursework, networking with peers, learning from industry experts and meeting members of the LLamasoft team. In addition to classroom instruction, LLamasoft can also deliver any course on site at the customer's own facility. Visit www.llamasoft.com/training for full course listing.

User Support

LLamasoft has a large, well-trained support staff

LLamasoft provides the www.SupplyChainGuru.com resource center and the support.llamasoft.com self-service customer support website for all users

LLamasoft SummerCon is recognized as THE industry event for supply chain design and attended by hundreds of leading supply chain organizations each year. 425 professionals attended the June 2013 event.

Continuous Product Development & Innovation

LLamasoft's self-service support website

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Product Development

Forty percent of LLamasoft employees are solutions and development focused, making our customers’ success top priority.

LLamasoft has a large, dedicated development staff of both software developers and applied research (AR) scientists

LLamasoft maintains and delivers on an aggressive product development roadmap

LLamasoft can deliver custom product features and functions on-demand

The LLamasoft Design Platform Whether you’re starting your first design project or building a global initiative, LLamasoft provides the technology and expertise to support the design of better supply chains.