Model Supply Chains provides specialist consultancy in strategic supply chain design.  We help to generate shareholder value for our clients by applying consulting, analytical and modelling expertise to inform a robust end-to-end supply chain strategy.

Our rigorous, yet pragmatic, approach to analysis reveals insights into the drivers of key business metrics – such as customer service, cost, environmental sustainability and risk – and identifies opportunities to exploit such insights.  Model Supply Chain's clients can harness our expertise to address a wide range of business issues, including:

Supply chain network design and optimisation
- How many facilities?
- Where?
- Supplying how much of which products to whom?
- What is the benefit of restructuring the supply chain network?
- How to rearrange the network post merger and acquisition?
- What is the appropriate trade-off between one-off costs, recurring costs, customer service, environmental metrics and risk?

Capital investment and capacity planning
- When to invest to support growth and innovation?
- Where?
- Which technology to use?
- What level of automation?
- In- or out-source?

Cost modelling
- What are the key cost drivers for a bought-in material?
- Or of a manufacturing operation?
- Or of distribution and warehousing costs?
- What is the relationship to scale?
- What are appropriate manufacturing benchmarks?
- What are the improvement opportunities?
- What is the cost to serve a particular customer?
- What is the impact of portfolio complexity?

Policy optimisation and simulation
- How should customers be segmented?
- What manufacturing run strategy should be adopted to optimise customer service and inventory trade-offs?
- What is the optimal transportation strategy?
- What is the impact of shortening lead times?
- Where should inventory be held?  How much?
- How much to pre-build?

Greenhouse gas emissions analysis
- What is the greenhouse gas impact of restructuring my SC network?
- Or of new technologies?
- Or of new products?
- What is the right trade-off between greenhouse gas emissions, cost and service?


Risk and robustness analysis 
- What if volumes do not grow as expected?
- What if labour, transport or material costs increase faster than predicted?
- What if import duties fall between certain countries?
- What if there is a natural disaster or civil unrest in a key manufacturing or sourcing location?
- What are the non-financial risks / benefits?
- What uncertainty is associated with these risks?