This all accounts for estimated annual savings of $950 000 to $1.

1M savings in fuel and

time costs.

There are other additional benefits which are not accounted for such as increased
ability to serve stores and deliver fresh foods.

Overall it is clear that adding a new distribution center would not only save costs in the
near term but would also enable Publix to add somewhere around 80 additional stores
in the North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia markets since the new Charlotte
distribution center is currently only serving 81 locations.

Why CARTO for Supply Chain Network Design?

You can conduct supply chain network design with any location intelligence tool, but
we're a little biased here.

As you can see in the examples above CARTO has several key advantages that allows
it to run complex Supply Chain Network Optimization analyses like the Publix use case:

 Bring your data to the platform and analyze it with ease

 Integrate with other data such as demographics and advanced optimized routing
 Visualize the optimized network and routes on a map not just the data