From a year of your own loads to a model your team keeps.
From the data request to a model your team keeps, with the evidence for every decision in a printable gate pack.
Run as a study with four gates, each closed by a decision you sign.
No stage starts until the one before has met its exit criteria and been signed Go, No-go or Reshape, with the evidence in a printable gate pack.
Gate 1 of 4 · Mobilise and data: confirm the measures and the candidate sites
M1 · stop point
Mobilise and data
- Data request returnedOpenMet
- Validation checks run, treatments agreedOpenMet
- Candidate sites listedOpenMet
Decision
Confirm the measures and the candidate sites
GoNo-goReshapeSignedM2 · stop point
Baseline
- Reconciles to last year, line by lineOpenMet
- Service constraints agreedOpenMet
- Every assumption bound to the modelOpenMet
Decision
Sign off the baseline as a fair picture
GoNo-goReshapeSignedM3 · stop point
Scenarios
- Each configuration run on the signed baselineOpenMet
- Both centre of gravity methods testedOpenMet
- Rejected options written up, with reasonsOpenMet
Decision
Choose the options to take forward
GoNo-goReshapeSignedM4 · stop point
Recommend
- Recommendation with its robustness rangeOpenMet
- Sequence of changes and board reportOpenMet
- Model handed over to your teamOpenMet
Decision
Take the recommendation to the board
GoNo-goReshapeSigned
At M4 the board gets a decision it can take, with the evidence for every figure in the gate pack, and your team keeps the model to re-run when the business changes.
Every site tested against where its customers really are.
Road miles a week
87,126
0% on today
Customers changing hands
0
of 122
The East hub moves 110 miles inland and 17 customers change hands. Road miles a week fall from 87,126 to 71,445, and volume within two and a half hours rises from 83.4% to 88.6%. Illustrative figures for invented demand.
Step 1 of 4: Each customer belongs to its nearest hub.
Hubshape draws the ground each site serves from modelled road miles, with every customer weighted by the pallets it takes.
What the study asks of your team, and what it hands back.
No stage starts until the one before has met its exit criteria and been signed Go, No-go or Reshape, with the evidence in a printable gate pack.
01A coded data request
Delivery points, loads, the site master and the cost ledger, each item marked essential or desirable, checked as it arrives.
02A baseline that reconciles
The model has to match last year's actual costs, line by line and within a tolerance you agree, before anyone signs it.
03Options against the base case
Each configuration tested on cost, service, miles and carbon, and against failures such as losing the main hub in peak.
04The model handed over
At the end the model stays with your team, so it can be re-run when volumes, sites or rates change.
Start with a year of your own loads.
Talk to Libra about a Hubshape study. We will scope the data request, the measures and the first gate with you.
Talk to Libra about Hubshape
Hubshape is built and run by Libra Europe, and the model stays with your team at the end.