ANN ARBOR ? Supply chain design software solutions provider, LLamasoft, has released Data Services, a new product that provides reference and benchmark data to LLamasoft customers and others in the supply chain design community.

By providing easy access to this data, LLamasoft Data Services provides significant reduction in model building time and validates model outputs against real world standards.

Data Services helps the supply chain design community:

Build models more quickly with easy access to reference data

Validate inputs and outputs against realistic standards

Interpret the benefits of future state scenarios

Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others. Users can access Data Services initially through an Excel macro interface with future direct connections planned to LLamasoft supply chain modeling software such as Supply Chain Guru and Transportation Guru, or through a Web-based interface. Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas.