Enterprise software provider Infor today announced general availability of a new version of its SCM Network Design product, a modeling tool used to help manufacturers and other companies evaluate options for optimizing their supply chains for cost, revenue, and service while reducing their carbon footprints.
Infor’s SCM Network Design works by analyzing variables within manufacturing and distribution facilities as well as available transportation options across a supply network.
“Network Design helps users make decisions about which products to produce at which sites, which suppliers to use, and how to [transport] those products,” said Wilson Rothschild, Infor’s director of supply chain management, in an interview with Managing Automation.
New functionality included in the “environmentally friendly” 9.1 release of SCM Network Design enables companies to measure carbon emissions related to supply chain nodes, such as plants, warehouses, and transportation systems, the company said. The new version also includes a 64-bit modeling solver designed to streamline what-if analyses, as well as wizards that enable users to easily add new information into their existing supply chain models, Rothschild said.