Advanced Center of Gravity (Addresses)

This node can be used to optimize your supply chain network by determining the optimal locations for distribution centers (DCs) while meeting service level requirements for different product groups.
For this node four input tables are needed. The first table contains detailed information about your customers, including their locations, demand weights for specific product groups, and any pre-assigned centers or sources. The second table lists all potential supply sources, including their locations and the product groups they can supply. The third table contains the locations of centers that are fixed and must be included in the optimization. The fourth table specifies the product groups involved in the optimization and their respective service level requirements.
Please specify the distance unit, minimun and maximum number of centers and outbound/inbound factor in the configuration dialogue.

In case input and output data need to be saved on the Log-hub Platform, please set save scenario flag to true, fill the workspace id for the workspace in which the scenario should be saved, and give name to the scenario. In case existing scenario should be overwritten, set the overwrite scenario flag also to true, otherwise leave to false.

To use this node you need an API Key from Log-hub Supply Chain Apps. This key you can generate with an Supply Chain Apps Pro Account. More information you can find on www.log-hub.com.

Log-hub video for API key generation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgOn1IZ1Bk&t=255s

Input ports

1. Type: Table
   Customers
   The customer input needs to contain name, country, state, zip, city, street, product group, weight, assigned center and assigned source. Mandatory fields are country, product group and weight. One of the columns zip or city should be filled. Please map the fields accordingly in the configuration.
2. Type: Table
   Sources
   The sources input needs to contain name, country, state, zip, city, street and product group. No mandatory fields. Please map the fields accordingly in the configuration.
3. Type: Table
   Fixed Centers
   The fixed centers input needs to contain name, country, state, zip, city and street. No mandatory fields. Please map the fields accordingly in the configuration.
4. Type: Table
   Product Groups
   The product groups input needs to contain product group name, service level and service level distance limit. All fields are mandatory. Please map the fields accordingly in the configuration.

Output ports

1. Type: Table
   Assigned Centers
   The assigned centers output contains information about centers, assigned product group and weight.
2. Type: Table
   Inbound
   The inbound output contains information about sources and assigned centers, their product group, weight and distance.
3. Type: Table
   Outbound
   The outbound output contains information about customers and assigned centers, their product group, weight and distance.