End User
LMS
Description
The Sustainable Supply Chain Optimiser generates optimised supply chain plans for multi-stage networks by simultaneously minimising cost, carbon emissions, and lead times while satisfying physical constraints. The service integrates sustainability metrics — including energy consumption and CO2 emissions per supplier and transportation mode — alongside traditional cost and service level objectives, helping organisations meet sustainability targets without compromising operational efficiency.
Core Capabilities
Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics
Optimization & Decision Support
Business Need
Supply chain networks face growing pressure from rising energy costs, carbon regulations, and ESG reporting requirements. Multi-objective optimisation balancing cost, emissions, and lead times across complex networks with multiple suppliers, facilities, and transportation modes cannot be handled effectively by manual planning or single-objective approaches. The service provides transparent sustainability-cost trade-off analysis to support strategic and tactical supply chain decisions.
Key Performance Indicators
Multi-objective improvement: ≥10% improvement in at least one metric (cost, emissions, lead time) without degrading others beyond acceptable trade-offs
Solution feasibility: feasible solutions for ≥75% of planning scenarios with clear infeasibility explanation otherwise
Scenario adaptability: ease of reconfiguring for different objectives or network configurations
Data Provided
Optimised supply chain plan: supplier selections, order quantities, transportation modes, inventory levels, delivery schedules
Performance metrics: total cost, carbon emissions, delivery performance (on-time %), service level achievement
Inputs: supplier network (locations, lead times, costs, emission factors, capacity), demand data (products, quantities, due dates)
TEF
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