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Ann Arbor, MI - June 9, 2008 LLamasoft, Inc., the leading provider of supply chain network design software, today announced the release of new functional enhancements for its Supply Chain Guru™ product, including significant advances in transportation modeling.
Leveraging Supply Chain Guru’s unique integration of optimization and simulation technologies, and its scaleable architecture for handling extremely large models, LLamasoft is continuing to establish the benchmark for advanced transportation modeling and analysis.
“Advanced transportation modeling technology has proven to be an underserved area of focus throughout the supply chain industry,” noted Donald Hicks, CEO of LLamasoft. “Requests for these new analytical tools have accelerated as our clients face the rising pressures of high fuel costs and transportation capacity limitations.”
In addition to existing capabilities for optimizing transportation networks for cost and/or service, users of the latest release of Supply Chain Guru™ are now able to:
- Optimize the number of transportation assets required (containers, pallets, trucks, railcars, etc.), assess the proper positioning of these assets throughout the supply chain, and consider seasonal demand variations
- Model pooled truckload and multi-stop strategies to test the feasibility of a new supply chain network design
- Accurately optimize, analyze, and predict a supply chain’s service behavior, including: on-time shipments, on-time orders, shipments filled from inventory, and individual orders filled from inventory
- Simulate route schedule output from Transportation Management Systems to validate feasibility and predict service levels
- Incorporate detailed return trip behavior and statistics in supply chain network design and analysis
- Access on-demand the latest LTL freight rates for all North American supply chain models – Integration with RateWare XL from SMC3
- Calculate accurate freight routes and miles for all global regions throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, & Australia – Integration with PCMiler™ from ALK
- Include embedded carbon emissions benchmark data for all major transportation modes to calculate a network’s carbon footprint and to use as a constraint in carbon reduction activities
All enhancements are available at no additional fee to LLamasoft maintenance subscribers; new users will find these features integrated into the standard Supply Chain Guru™ application. About LLamasoft
LLamasoft provides software and expertise to design and modify supply chain network operations. Supply Chain Guru™ is the leading supply chain strategic planning application available in the market today. It enables companies to model their supply chain operations, optimize the structure for cost and profitability, and simulate proposed changes, allowing users to implement their changes with confidence.
Clients use LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™ to identify major financial and operational improvements in transportation, inventory, sourcing, and production applications.
The privately-held company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was founded in 1998 as the first company to combine enterprise-level simulation with full-feature network and inventory optimization within a single modeling structure.
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