Case Study: Leading Department Store Chain achieves distribution network optimization with Chainalytics

Strategic Realignment Enabled by Distribution Optimization for Department Store Chain

Leading Department Store Chain faced intense retail disruption, with an aging supply chain that no longer matched changing customer behavior, e-commerce growth, or new partnership demands. Its network of more than 1,000 stores, multiple area logistics hubs, and store management facilities needed a major redesign, and the company partnered with Chainalytics and its supply chain design expertise to determine how to realign distribution for future competitiveness.

Chainalytics analyzed more than 200 scenarios and sensitivity tests, evaluating inbound costs, facility costs, handling, last-mile delivery, and e-commerce capacity to identify the best operating model. The work uncovered five outdated or poorly located facilities, guided a shift of the main U.S. port of entry to a West Coast distribution center, and led to ongoing managed analytics services; the result was lower costs, better delivery speed, and a more responsive, continuously optimized supply chain.