Supply Chain Engineering

Our cold supply chain expertise can be a high-value resource in re-engineering a lowest cost/highest service logistics solution. Working closely with your management, logistics, production and customer service team, we can develop a thorough, real world model of your current supply chain, and identify next steps in achieving best practices for improvement, both fundamental and continuous. Our skills and our investment in modeling software and technologies are enhanced by our experience with food and food products. In short, we know what is achievable.

We can address legacy issues and provide innovative options:

• Short term: are there savings opportunities within your existing logistics network?
• Core competency: are there functions that should be handled in-house or are there outsourcing opportunities that create greater value for the organization?
• Infrastructure and network configuration: are distribution facilities, transportation assets, information systems, and logistics processes configured for greatest utilization at lowest cost?
• Are inbound and outbound transportation strategies ideal for your supply chain and are they managed for optimum efficiency?
• Are there opportunities for improving the order-to-delivery process with solutions such as Vendor Managed Inventory and Reverse Logistics?
• Are their collaborative relationships among trading partners, vendors and customers for shared savings?

NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
Hanson also offers top-tier Network Optimization through an agreement with Supply Chain Optimizers, Buffalo NY and Toronto ON. Supply Chain Optimizers provides in-depth supply chain analysis and engineering for many of the world’s foremost consumer product companies and logistics providers. The company’s expertise encompasses all aspects of the supply chain, including domestic and international operations, packaging, transportation and network optimization. This expertise, together with comprehensive transportation pricing data, gives clients an achievable, real world model of best-of-class supply chain performance.

Supply Chain Optimizers utilizes SAILS software to accurately represent a company's current business practices, from raw materials sourcing to capacity planning through delivery to the end customer. Using cutting-edge optimization technology, SAILS determines the best current network and strategically plans the best future network.

Customers can use SAILS to tackle large, complex studies or to focus in on a specific business issue. With the added benefits of a powerful data management system and an intuitive user interface, SAILS is an ideal tool for any company looking to gain competitive advantage through designing a better supply chain.

• Facility location & size
• Facility capability
• Global sourcing analysis
• Capacity planning & budgeting
• Distribution methods and policies
• Make vs. Buy
• Seasonality & growth analysis
• Inventory Analysis
• Cost vs. service tradeoffs

Contact Hanson Logistics to discuss our supply chain management services in great detail.