With the merger, the two large industrial companies had a combined network of 100+ branch locations. The companies had overlapping territories and supply chains in most areas of the United States. Each company had a complex array of truck & rail transportation lanes & shuttles to consider.

We built & exercised a network design model to optimize the combined network of the 100+ branch locations. Combining the two companies allowed for economies of scale in inter-branch & inbound transportation (e.g. leveraging rail). We identified over 7% savings in the network for the large industrial company, focused on inter-branch only