Center of Gravity

Center of Gravity is part of SC Navigator. Its purpose to determine optimal locations for Distribution Centers in your network design.

The app finds the so-called Center of Gravity with respect to the customer and supplier locations, based on the amount of demand/supply that these locations have. Each customer/supplier that is considered in the calculations has its own demand/supply load. All these location loads pull on the Center of Gravity, until the model finds optimal location(s) to put a distribution center.

You can use Center of Gravity results as input for Network Design.

Center of Gravity is configured in Data Navigator and then proceeding to the app, it has three stages: Setup, Run Scenario and Compare Scenarios.

• Start Application
  • Load Configuration
  • Load Dataset
  • Workflow
  • Status bar
  • Help
• First Phase - Setup
  • Select Products
  • Fix Locations
  • General Settings
  • Settings - Drive Time Scenario
• Second Phase - Run Scenario
  • Arriving to page Run Scenario
  • Determine Center(s) of Gravity
  • Scenario Details
• Third Phase - Compare Scenarios
  • Separate View:
  • Combined View:
  • Map View Side Panel
  • Legend Side Panel
• Attribute Name Change
  • Center of Gravity 2.24.01