Coffee co-pack
Should a roaster sign co-pack contracts, or roast everything in one place?
A roaster in Trieste sells worldwide. Co-pack contracts in Atlanta and Singapore would put roasting closer to customers. Step the price of diesel from $2 to $7 a gallon and see which footprint the optimizer picks.
The question it answers
Is one central plant still cheapest when freight gets expensive? Roasting in one place keeps fixed costs low. Co-packers near customers add contract costs but cut the truck miles to them. Which one wins depends on the price of fuel, which nobody can promise for the life of a contract.
What you’ll see
Green-coffee suppliers, the Trieste roaster, the two co-pack options and customers on a world map. The demo holds 44 saved runs of the AMOS optimizer: four footprints at each of eleven diesel prices. The dashboard shows the choice at the selected price and how each footprint holds up across the whole range.
What to change
- Step diesel from $2 to $7 a gallon and watch the chosen footprint change.
- Compare the footprints across the range rather than at one price.
- Ask the assistant when one central roaster is cheapest, or what a higher contract cost would do.
Where it leads
A decision that flips with one input is worth testing across that input’s whole range. Tariff network redesign applies the same idea to duty rates, and the tariff demo runs it.
Run Coffee co-pack
It opens in the Sandbox with sample data. No signup, no install.
Run it →Or see all eleven network demos.