Software
Supply chain network design software

Your supply chain network –

like you’ve never seen it before

Get end-to-end visibility and increase resilience with modeling software for strategic and tactical network design

Common use cases

Visualize
Instant supply chain network transparency
Early-stage transparency improves planning quality and contributes to better decision-making. 4flow modeling software improves visibility in the as-is network in minutes.
4flow VIA® module network visualization and analysis

Enhance communication and decision-making
Visualizing the supply chain network structure, key performance indicators and changes over time using different visualizations, including Sankey diagrams, different maps and network graphs, to enrich your team’s understanding of network structure.
4flow VIA® module network visualization and analysis

Analyze
Network analysis for improvement tips
Evaluate your transportation network’s performance over time. From there, pinpoint bottlenecks and potential for optimization in your supply chain network. Get improvement tips for your network design through a variety of analysis methods specifically designed for logistics and supply chain networks.
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Boost sustainability with a carbon emissions dashboard
Track, analyze, and reduce greenhouse gases, carbon emission intensities, exhaust emission and air pollutants with 4flow VIA®. Monitor and report progress towards sustainability goals and identify potential areas for reducing carbon emissions, contributing to a greener future.
4flow VIA® module network visualization and analysis

Sustainable cost reduction
The bulk of global supply chain costs lies in transportation, inventory, and warehousing. 4flow software supports continuous cost optimization of transportation concepts, as well as inventory allocation while improving service levels.
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Optimize
Network optimization and strategic transportation planning
It’s crucial to determine the optimal structure of supply, production, and distribution networks based on past and future requirements. 4flow software generates and compares possible scenarios to create a baseline for important decisions about optimal network structure, total cost reduction and long-term planning.
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All-in-one transportation planning
Implement continuous cost optimization of transportation concepts. Every step is done in one tool – from defining transportation structures to optimizing transportation rates and modes to planning efficient routes.
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Trustworthy product allocation decisions
Supply chain experts, planners and consultants can make quick and data-driven product allocation decisions to ensure stock availability and fulfill service level promises while reducing total cost with smart analysis and optimization algorithms.
4flow VIA® module inventory allocation optimization

Your action plan for supply chain network optimization

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“At Yusen Logistics we are committed to continuously improving the services we offer our customers. To achieve this, we have teams all around the world that are connected and support each other. For over 3 years we have been using 4flow vista® to help us to optimize our network, including greenfield and brownfield analysis. We use 4flow vista® both for internal analysis as well as for customer tenders. The software provides us with a visual representation of our projects which allows us to pinpoint any potential bottlenecks in the solution.“

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4flow vista®

Holistic optimization and planning software for supply chain networks.
Improve your network agility while maintaining efficiency and minimizing total costs with 4flow vista®.

4flow VIA®

Cutting-edge software suite for agile supply chain planning

Modular software for visualization, analysis and optimization

Easy-to-use workflow

Quick, reliable, and actionable insights

Sustainable optimization algorithms developed in-house for faster run times

Modeling and optimization of multi-leg and intermodal transportation

Total cost analysis and calculation

Suitable for all industries and all modes of transportation

4flow - trusted by businesses across industries

2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools
4flow was listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools* for the software product 4flow vista®.

*Vicky Forman, Pia Orup Lund, February 17, 2025

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4flow software offers a wide range of products to visualize, analyze, design and optimize supply chain networks from the strategic to the tactical level. Supported functions in strategic planning include determining the supply network structure and number of network levels, locating inventory, and allocating assortment. On the tactical level, functions include defining a transportation structure, efficient route planning and optimizing transportation modes and costs.

Network design solutions from 4flow software are developed to help you throughout the supply chain optimization process: from collecting relevant data and analyzing the as-is network to creating network scenarios and designing the target network.

4flow network design solutions are used by businesses from a wide variety of industries, including automotive, industrial goods, retail and consumer goods. Find a selection of 4flow software customers here.
You can learn more in these case studies featuring 4flow customers from various industries.

4flow offers modular software pricing per license. That way, you only pay for what you need, guaranteeing the greatest ROI. Contact our software experts to discuss your use case and get details about pricing.

You can try 4flow NEVA® for free for 15 days to visualize and analyze your network and calculate carbon emissions from shipments.
To take a closer look at network design and optimization with 4flow vista®, request a free demo.

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Network planning and optimization

July 11, 2024

Optimizing inventory allocation across networks to balance cost and service level fulfillment

An effective approach for complex distribution networks facing fluctuating demand

January 24, 2024

Get ready for top trends in supply chain network design in 2024

Advancements in network design will help businesses overcome volatility and respond to disruptions, environmental regulations and more

January 09, 2024

Center of gravity analysis for the location of new logistics sites

Evaluating a common network design method in today’s supply chain landscape

July 27, 2023

Sustainable cost optimization with customized supply chain network design

Six steps for an optimized supply network

May 04, 2023

“Transportation optimization is becoming critical to ensure significant cost savings and supply chain resilience”

Pave the way to improved performance and cost reduction with network design, transportation optimization, data analytics and more

November 17, 2022

Network visibility — the first step towards supply chain agility

Gain supply chain transparency and better prepare for disruptions with 4flow VIA® suite – network visualization and analysis

Are you ready to boost your supply chain with effective software?

*Gartner, Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools, Vicky Forman, Pia Orup Lund, February 17, 2025

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