Network study | Chocolate factory


Branche

Consumer & Food

Company size

1,500 employees

Project duration

5 months

Dimension

Cost-optimised location networks

Baden-Württemberg

Customer

Our customer produces high-quality chocolate since 1912 and generates annual sales of approx. 500 million euros in more than 100 countries.

Services

Network study of warehouse, transportation and packaging structures to improve delivery services and to optimise costs:

  • Collecting transport and warehouse data
  • Analysis of distribution structures
  • Modelling and evaluation of models 
  • Software based simulation of inbound and outbound transportation costs 
  • Approximated dimensioning of involved warehouses to estimate yearly cost for staff, building and equipment
  • Simulation of the transportation and warehouse costs in every simulation scenario
  • Network analysis 
  • Evaluation of the preferred model and ecological footprint