ASCALiNet® - Delivering Network Optimality with Clarity and Detail

ASCALiNet® drives your network costs down with abosolute visibility of what brings the biggest benefits and cost risks to your network.

Deliver your Optimal Network Strategy with ASCALiNet®

ASCALiNet® is our latest innovation in Netowrk Modelling. Developed to help answer the toughest ofquestions from the most dynamic of businesses. How many DCs should we have? Where should they be? What will it cost us to achieve? But, perhaps, most importantly, how do we know the solution is right for us? Our team use ASCALiNet® to bring total , auditable clarity to your future supply chain choices. Every cost for every delivery to every costomer clearly laid out for you to see and understand.

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Plan your Growth across 15 Years

See your growth curve in terms of customer orders and deliveries.

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There is no need to resort to generic growth plans that give no detail on what changes in customer behaviour will do for your network. You know that you cannot just grow orders by say 10% per year, as you cannot sell 1.1 of a thing…you need a granualr process that plans forwards in a clear way how your growth aspiration could manifest in real orders, for New SKUs, Like-for-Like Growth and New customers, large and small.

The process built into ASCALiNet® enables us to demonstrate to you how your vision for growth will create order ines that we can cost in future, even if they don’t exist today. Some channels may grow, some may shrink These are just some of the scenrios ASCALiNet® can help you deliver.

Knowing how your growth curve has been applied is one of the areas where traditional heuristic models have struggled to justify their netowrk solution answers over the years. With ASCALiNet®, you see every order, for every year. Line-by-Line. If there is a customer or a location you know you won’t serve in later years, just take them out and see the impact on your network.

Get easy to follow results in minutes

Don’t just receive the outputs. Understand them.

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Starting with the visual representatin of your network, ASCALiNet® makes it easy to see what changes and when as your solution develops over the years. How does you network look in you base year, how does it look at year 15, how did it look in the middle? You can turn the detail on or off and to create a really clear network picture.

Our consulting team find this level of easy to follow output invaluable in demonstrating why your network strategy should be the way it is. When our clients find it easy to understand the outputs, the task shifts from explaining to optimising. You get to ask the right questons about your network instead of just trying to get your head round what the answer is. This is priceless in Network Strategy Development.

The reason ASCALiNet® exists is to provide that clarity that we know our clients need, and that is why we have invested so much in its development. Talk to our team today about how ASCALiNet® can help you deliver real change for your organisation.

Drill down into cost Year-By-Year

Answer the questions your CFO will have before they need to ask them.

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In some heuristics modelling applications it can be hard enough to understand what goes into a whole year’s costs. With ASCALiNet® you can see what any order costs. Whether you have included cost inflation, a discount rate to get the Net Present Value (NPV) the costs for shipping goods into as well as out of your etwork, ASCALiNet® shows you it all. Every Order; Every year.

When you can see those costs with absolute clarity, it makes it much easier to justify future investment decisions. And with the pace at which ASCALiNet® works, it takes very little time to re-test a specific scenario or change to the model to understand its sensitivity. When the Leadership Team ask how do we know this is right? Just click on the line and show them.

ASCALiNet® does not just change how we approch Supply Chain Modelling. It changes how our customers view strategic change. No more ‘ifs and buts’. Just hard facts, clear logic and justifiable decisions.

Talk to ASCALi now to talk to book a free 30 minute consultation to help us understand how ASCALiNet® analysis can help you achieve your optimal Logistics Solution.

Logistics Network Optimisation Case Study

Using ASCALiNet® to support Logistics Optimisation

In this Case Study we demonstrate the how our team used our own industry-leading software application, ASCALiNet® to support the delivery of significant clients savings, streamlined practices and enhanced customer service. This enabled them to reduce lead times by a full day at no extra cost to the business, and deliver new working practices that drive safety, sustainability and resilience into their supply chain.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does your ASCALiNet® application do and how might it work for us?
ASCALiNet® has been developed over a long period of time to enable you to understand what your optimal Logistics Network is, for now and for up to the next 15 years. It presents all its findings in a clear, and easy to follow way where you can fully audit every single line of the cost metrics that have led to the modelled scenario results. It is a real game-changer when it comes to planning out how your Logistics and Supply Chain infrastructure needs to adapt to meet your future business needs.
What outputs will ASCALiNet® give us?
ASCALiNet® produces line level detail for every order you distribute, across the whole time horizon. That is 15 years of fully auditable and traceable cost information that shows Outbound Transport Cost; Depot and Satellite DC Handling Costs; Inter-Site Trunking Costs; Location Fixed Costs; Site Start-Up and Exit Costs; Inbound Supply Costs from Factories or Supplier Locations. You can even select customers to see how much it will cost you to serve that customer or any of its specific locations for up to 15 years. The power to inform is what sets ASCALiNet® apart from other modelling tools and models.
Isn't Logistics Network Design just for big Companies? Can ASCALiNet® work for us?
Traditionally, Logistics Network Design has been a privilege of large multi-site companies with deep pockets. That is partly why ASCALiNet® now exists, because we wanted to plug that gap, to bring real big-business competitiveness to the small to mid-sized company landscape. Please don't misunderstand the power of ASCALiNet® though. We have used it for huge organisations distributing millions of pallets annually to good effect, but the logic and rules engine that sit behind it are so flexible, quick and easy to use that we know it can add value to those companies that are desperate to grow, but just don't know how.
Does ASCALiNet® tell us how much inventory to hold?
ASCALiNet® lets you completely understand the impact of decisions relating to your stock holding. When you will need more stock holding capacity (for peak and all year round), when you may be better off using direct-injection from supply into your remote DCs versus receiving into your primary sites; how much the storage of product will add to your costs over the time horizon. Ultimately, your stocking policies are your commercial decision, and we have another proprietary application SKUBE® that can help you establish what your SKU and stock policies should be.