How Log-hub uses Hexaly for large-scale supply chain optimization
Company Overview
Log-hub helps organizations transform complex supply chain challenges into data-driven decisions. Through its Supply Chain Apps Portfolio and custom Data, Analytics & AI Solutions, Log-hub enables logistics providers, manufacturers, and global enterprises to optimize transportation networks, inventory strategies, facility locations, and end-to-end supply chain performance.
Its portfolio combines supply chain analytics, network design, transportation optimization, forecasting, and digital twin technologies to support better planning decisions across increasingly complex supply chain environments.
The Challenge
Supply chain networks are becoming larger, more dynamic, and more interconnected. As organizations face ongoing disruptions, geopolitical uncertainty, shifting demand patterns, and sustainability requirements, planning teams must evaluate an ever-growing number of scenarios while balancing cost, service levels, and operational constraints.
Many of Log-hub’s applications involve solving large-scale optimization problems, including transportation planning, network design, facility location optimization, freight cost modeling, and shipment flow optimization. As customers began modeling more detailed and realistic supply chain networks, the size and complexity of these optimization models increased significantly.
To continue pushing the boundaries of supply chain optimization, Log-hub expanded its platform with dynamic network models and time-space optimization capabilities. This evolution required an optimization engine capable of handling larger models, richer constraints, and more sophisticated planning logic while maintaining practical solution times.
To support these next-generation capabilities, Log-hub selected Hexaly as the optimization engine behind several of its advanced supply chain applications.
The Solution
Hexaly was integrated into multiple applications within Log-hub’s Supply Chain Apps Portfolio, strengthening solutions focused on transportation optimization, supply chain network design, hub-versus-direct decisions, SKU-level planning, and freight tender management.
The integration allows Log-hub to leverage the most effective optimization techniques for each use case while preserving the existing user experience. End users continue working in the same applications and workflows while benefiting from enhanced optimization performance behind the scenes.
By combining advanced mixed-integer programming (MIP) techniques, nonlinear optimization, and set-based modeling, Hexaly enables Log-hub to solve highly complex, constraint-rich planning problems faster and with greater scalability. This provides the foundation for supporting dynamic network architectures, larger transportation models, and increasingly sophisticated supply chain planning workflows.
Results
The evaluation demonstrated Hexaly’s ability to consistently generate high-quality solutions across a broad range of supply chain optimization problems while reducing the time required to explore and compare planning scenarios.
By accelerating optimization workflows, Hexaly enables planners to evaluate more alternatives within the same planning horizon, identify cost-saving opportunities faster, and make better decisions across transportation and network design applications.
The adoption of Hexaly also improves Log-hub’s ability to address increasingly complex optimization challenges, including large-scale network design, transportation planning, and multi-echelon supply chain optimization.
Key benefits observed during the evaluation include:
- Faster access to decision-ready planning scenarios
- The ability to evaluate more alternatives within the same planning window
- Greater potential for transportation and network cost savings
- Improved scalability for large-scale optimization models
- Support for increasingly complex and constraint-rich planning problems
- Continuous optimization improvements that unlock additional value over time
Looking Ahead
For Log-hub, adopting Hexaly represents more than a solver upgrade. It establishes a foundation for the next generation of supply chain optimization capabilities across its product portfolio.
Future developments will focus on increasingly advanced supply chain planning and logistics optimization applications, enabling customers to model dynamic, interconnected, and large-scale supply chain networks with greater accuracy and flexibility.
Beyond Supply Chain Apps, Log-hub continues to deliver custom analytics, simulation, and optimization solutions for logistics providers, industrial companies, and manufacturers. Hexaly will further strengthen these capabilities by supporting larger optimization models, richer business constraints, faster scenario analysis, and next-generation digital twins.
Together, Log-hub and Hexaly are helping organizations transform complex supply chain data into actionable decisions through scalable, high-performance optimization.
By combining advanced mixed-integer programming (MIP) techniques, nonlinear optimization, and set-based modeling, we can solve highly complex scenarios with new levels of speed and scalability. This enables real-world solutions built around dynamic network models and next-generation planning architectures.
