Symmedian Technologies NEW 4SYTE.NET Supply Chain Data Virtualization Tool

Symmedian Introduction and 4Syte.Net.Industrial Version 1.0 Overview

Service Overview & Introduction

Symmedian is the most comprehensive resource available to optimize your supply chain through data virtualization and network optimization technologies. We integrate and evaluate all aspects of the supply chain decision and perform extensive Logistics Activity Profiling (LAP) using Symmedian ’s proprietary 4Syte technologies.

We offer a range of services to inform and enhance your procurement and sourcing strategies. We conduct a variety of network evaluation and optimization analyses, from inventory and transportation to incentives and labor performance, and more. We use these analyses to inform the business decisions that affect the eventual execution of your Distribution Center real estate strategy.

Finally, you can receive these services as one seamlessly integrated process, with no layered costs and full accountability.

How do we do it? As seasoned experts in supply chain, logistics, industrial big box real estate and finance, we use our patent pending technologies to develop and compare all possible operational and financial scenarios for the project. The result, the very best financial and operational solution for our clients.

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Imagine having a financial “crystal ball” for your site selection strategy. Imagine possessing a financial time machine that would allow you to predict your financial future and examine the past. Imagine having the capability to financially prototype infinite DC scenarios and present with confidence well thought out solutions for the CFO, CEO and Board of Directors.

The new 4Syte™ NET tool just developed by Symmedian is unparalleled in the industry. The 4Syte™ NET is all about sophisticated financial evaluation including predictive analyses, financial prototyping, balance sheet implications, cash flows, P&L impact, cost of capital, overall project IRR, NPV, amortization schedules, book value, remaining loan balances, depreciation, interest and principal paid, supply chain total cost to serve, scenario building and much, much more. All of these factors play an important role in the site selection decision.

Up until now, there were no tools available that could provide this kind of vital analyses for the project team and the key executive decision makers.

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Network re-designs create inventory optimization opportunities that need to be analyzed and rolled into the overall site selection strategy.

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Inventory profiling is an important factor in any network re-design. Inbound and outbound activity can be contrasted to exploit opportunities to improve replenishment cycles and excessive inventory builds.

4Syte™NETSpace requirements based on correct inventory planning is critical to planning for your new DC network. 4Stye can evaluate cubic or square feet projections based on minimum, maximum or average thresholds. Inventory fluctuations and standard deviation are also analyzed.

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Examine your entire real estate portfolio at a glance. Do you know what your overall Net Effective Rent Rate is for your entire building network? Sort your facilities by any cost factor? Generate aggregate budgets by facility type, size or region and compare performance? Is it even feasible that your network is flexible enough for a re-design?

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Build infinite scenarios and generate detailed budgets for each. Move project time lines, shorten or lengthen the financial time period under evaluate with the stroke of a mouse. Compare your current lease cost to current market conditions. SYMMEDIAN DOES ALL THE DRIVING!

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Powerful financial reports with no spreadsheet errors for your entire portfolio of properties, transportation, labor, overhead, and overall supply chain cost per unit by scenario.

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If your project involves container movements from ports or railroads, it is important to factor in these cost to each unique scenario.

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Examine all transportation modes of each alternative under evaluation.

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Detailed labor analytics are a must in well executed site selection strategies.

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Your site selection strategy would not be complete without factoring in the impact that economic incentives will have on your project. Incentives are typically over weighted and not properly evaluated. 4SYTE ensures the proper financial allocation of all incentive options and is fully integrated into 4SYTE’s IRR and NET modules.

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Network re-designs ultimate goal should be to lower the cost per unit through your company’s supply chain. 4Syte NET aggregates real estate, transportation, labor and inventory cost for every scenario under evaluation and breaks down the comparison to a cost per unit measurement and provides detailed variances analyses by scenario.

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Once all of the data is sanitized and captured in 4Stye.NET our experts will build MASTER BUDGETS for each scenario being considered. This allows key decision makers to have a more holistic view of the overall financial impact of a network re-design.

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Large projects often necessitate the use of company capital. It is not always obvious what the right solution is until you understand the Internal Rate of Return on the capital needed for the project. Some scenarios will require less capital than others, often leading to alternatives that are not obvious in a straight up traditional transportation or network optimization study.