Optimize your supply chain network with agentic AI
Find new opportunities in your network, test scenarios and continuously optimize your supply chain with a digital twin.
- Use agentic AI built with over 25 years of supply chain expertise
- Turn complex data into faster decisions and lower costs
- Balance service, resilience and sustainability
Network transparency for better decisions
Cost and performance pressures are rising for global supply chain networks. Disruptions and volatility force teams to focus on operational challenges, and complex data landscapes make true visibility seem impossible.
Empower your team to make confident strategic decisions in your supply chain network. Data-driven analysis and interactive visualizations with what-if scenario comparisons make it easy to test reactions and see their impact in record time.
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Recognized by Gartner five years in a row
4flow has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools for the fifth year in a row.*
Bring your network to the next level
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Make better network decisions faster
Accelerate decision-making with AI-powered insights that help teams evaluate alternatives and act with confidence.
Accelerate decision-making with AI-powered insights that help teams evaluate alternatives and act with confidence.
- Reduce manual analysis effort
- Compare alternatives faster
- Improve decision confidence
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Reduce costs across your network
Identify opportunities to lower transportation, inventory and facility costs while maintaining operational performance.
Identify opportunities to lower transportation, inventory and facility costs while maintaining operational performance.
- Visualize suppliers, sites, inventory and flows
- Identify bottlenecks, risks and inefficiencies faster
- Enable data-driven decisions across stakeholders
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Improve resilience and service
Prepare for disruptions, growth and market changes without compromising customer service.
Prepare for disruptions, growth and market changes without compromising customer service.
- Evaluate risks before implementation
- Improve service levels by 10%+
- Strengthen supply chain resilience
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Scale continuous optimization
Move beyond one-time studies with a platform that continuously supports network evaluation and improvement.
Move beyond one-time studies with a platform that continuously supports network evaluation and improvement.
- Connect to enterprise systems
- Continuously evaluate opportunities
- Scale across regions and business units
Real-world results with 4flow VIA®
4flow VIA® in practice: key use cases
Transparency and analytics
Network design and planning
Transportation planning
Inventory management
Understand how your network operates today
Gain a complete view of your network, costs, flows and performance in a single digital environment.
- Get an overview of your network with interactive network maps and digital twin visualization
- Zoom in from network KPIs to individual flows and locations
- Analyze sourcing, distribution and cost-to-serve structures
Model and optimize your network with a digital twin
Design future-state networks, compare alternatives and evaluate trade-offs before implementation.
- Optimize both greenfield and brownfield networks
- Compare scenarios using quantified impact
- Simulate facility, sourcing and flow changes
Reduce transportation costs and improve efficiency
Optimize transportation networks, flows and routing strategies while balancing cost and service objectives.
- Model lane, mode and routing alternatives
- Optimize transportation networks and flow structures
- Analyze cost, utilization and emissions impacts
Network-wide inventory allocation optimization
Determine optimal inventory positioning and allocation strategies to balance availability, responsiveness and working capital.
- Improve inventory levels with multi-echelon inventory optimization
- Position inventory ideally across your network
- Optimize for service level and working capital
See 4flow VIA® in action
Meet the 4flow VIA® decision intelligence agent
Where supply chain expertise meets agentic AI
Investigate performance, compare scenarios, identify opportunities and understand network trade-offs faster. Built on 25+ years of optimization expertise, the decision intelligence agent turns complex network questions into decision-ready answers.
Automotive manufacturer
4flow and Schaeffler optimize intercompany network and reduce transport costs
With around 110,000 employees and more than 250 locations in 55 countries, Schaeffler is one of the world’s largest family-owned companies and one of Germany’s most innovative companies. Tens of thousands of tons of goods are moved annually between its plants, suppliers and warehouses.
Schaeffler manages a highly complex intercompany transport network. These transport flows are essential to the company’s core manufacturing operations, which rely on daily deliveries and synchronized material availability to maintain production schedules and service performance.
The solution:
Development and implementation of a comprehensive transport network optimization process using 4flow network design software. The scope included baseline analysis, tour structure redesign, simulation of transport scenarios and rollout of optimized logistics operations across two plants. The scalable approach will be applied across Schaeffler’s broader intercompany network.
The results:
Implementation of 4flow network design software and enablement of existing team of network design experts
Significant reduction in tour count with same service level
Significant cost reduction across intercompany shipments
Tens of thousands of tons of optimized transport volume
What our customers say
What our customers say
What our customers say
FAQ
Supply chain network optimization is the continuous process of improving network structures, inventory policies, facility locations and transportation flows to balance cost, service and resilience objectives.
4flow VIA can start to model, analyze and optimize your network with just two types of data input. That means the software is usable for most businesses – even if all you have are addresses of your network sites and shipment data from recent weeks. If you have additional data, you can add data types for an even fuller picture.
The timeline can vary depending on the project’s complexity, data availability and objectives. Thanks to modern tools, project timelines have decreased significantly. What once took up to six months can now be done in under two months—sometimes just a few weeks—with advanced supply chain software like 4flow VIA®.
Today’s supply chains face rising complexity, shifting customer expectations and constant cost pressure. Optimizing your network enables cost control, increased flexibility and improved service delivery while supporting long-term sustainability and growth.
You should reassess your network after events such as:
- Major supply chain disruptions
- Product or technology launches
- Regulatory or trade shifts
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Market entries
4flow VIA® is designed for flexible integration and ease of use. You typically need:
- A stable internet connection and standard modern web browser
- Access to your company’s ERP, TMS or data sources (e.g., SAP, Kinaxis or Excel)
- IT support for data integration and user access setup
- No special hardware is required, and cloud deployment is available for faster onboarding
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.
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*Gartner, Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools, Vicky Forman, Pia Orup Lund, February 16, 2026
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