Design & Optimization
Most supply chain visibility solutions are based on the idea of viewing what is happening "now" but this can only tell you part of the story. Without understanding what is likely to happen in the future, it's impossible to make strategic decisions that will have a positive impact on your business. The Supply Chain Solutions team takes supply chain reliability, responsiveness, and agility one-step further with predictive and prescriptive design modeling, optimization, simulation, and data analysis services.
Supply Chain Solutions gives you the opportunity to design sweeping changes to your supply chain without disrupting your operations or budget. Visibility to the end-to-end performance of your supply chain can be achieved through the simulation of your physical supply chain in a virtual model, providing you insight to opportunities and understanding to the impact of change.
We offer two approaches to modeling: Single Project Modeling and Persistent Modeling. Our persistent modeling service utilizes a digital twin approach to continuously view the performance of your supply through multiple lens' and eliminates the long road of establishing a baseline per project, saving you time and money.
Single Project Modeling
- Quoted based on hourly consulting rate
- Data received with project
- Design focus
Persistent Modeling
- Subscription-based digital twin service
- Data received continually
- Visibility + Design + Control focus
- Branded the Living Model
Neutrality & Data Privacy
Supply Chain Solutions is a carrier agnostic, neutral service. The only constraint to the alternate designs is based on your operational constraints, not ours. All data is private and exclusive. Access to the dashboards requires user authorization. Rest assured your information is guarded and the best outcome for your business is prioritized.
Ever-changing market conditions and strategies require supply chains to be reliable, responsive, and flexible. Expeditors’ Supply Chain Solutions group is comprised of experts in all aspects of supply chain management, data analysis, and modeling, who devote their time to helping customers extract higher levels of performance from their supply chains through a broad range of projects.
Our customers trust us to help them make data-based decisions with thoroughly considered risks and sensitivities that move them towards a best-in-class supply chain capable of meeting the complex challenges of today’s global marketplace.
Differentiators
Insight to Impact
Our team is comprised of both data scientists and supply chain experts. With an approach to optimization that relies on both roles, we’re experts in applying design focused, model-based engineering to support your next optimization idea. We’ll help ensure the theoretical results can be applied in the real world.
Predicting the Supply Chain
We believe the customer is central to our solution, and we focus on their business needs. Through workshops and interviews, we listen, ask questions, and learn before we act. Whatever the project, we deliver the optimal solution.
Equally important, the solution will be a practical, deployable solution that our customer can execute. Our team strategy centers on driving enhanced capabilities to the front line of the company that is both practical and deployable
Creative Customized Platforms
Supply Chain Solutions relies on a technology platform that enables all facets of analytics, descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive, so that we can creatively customize each customers supply chain design requirements.
Modeling Services
Frustrated by recent disruptions and wondering if it can take the next shock? Let Supply Chain Solutions help you.
Knowledge Center
Episode 1 | Supply Chain Resiliency: Disrupting Disruptions
In the first episode of The Expeditors Podcast, host Chris Parker talks with Ian Mallison, Expeditors' Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions, to get a better idea of how supply chains have been impacted since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the resulting shift in dynamics and relationships between service providers and their customers as all parties navigate change together.
