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Early access · optimize.orcavera.comOrca Optimizer
Supply-chain optimization for shippers, 3PLs, and carriers - turn your network data into the lowest-cost, lowest-carbon plan.
What it does
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Multimodal & vehicle routing
Solve vehicle routing problems (VRP) with time windows and capacity constraints across road, sea, rail, and air. Not heuristic guesses - provably optimal or near-optimal plans from an OR solver, with full route explainability.
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Network & facility-location design
Determine where to place distribution centres and warehouses using mixed-integer linear programming over your real demand, cost, and lead-time data. Evaluate consolidation, expansion, or footprint rationalisation scenarios side by side.
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Demand forecasting
Statistical and ML-based demand forecasts tied directly to your historical shipment and order data. Feed the optimizer accurate forward-looking demand rather than last year's averages.
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Multi-objective cost / CO₂ / time
Define objectives across cost, carbon emissions, and transit duration simultaneously. Orca Optimizer surfaces the Pareto-optimal frontier: not one answer, but the set of trade-off options, so your team makes an informed decision, not a black-box one.
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Sourcing optimization
Model multi-origin, multi-mode sourcing decisions against cost, lead time, and carbon constraints. Compare shifting volume across suppliers or origins before committing, with full landed-cost visibility.
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Bottleneck analysis
Identify capacity, cost, and flow bottlenecks across your live shipment graph. Pinpoint the lanes, nodes, or carriers that are constraining throughput or inflating cost, ranked and quantified, not just flagged.
Solver-grade, not black-box
Most "optimization" tools find a good answer. Orca Optimizer finds the best answer your data can support, using real mathematical optimization (MILP and OR solvers) under the hood. Every plan comes with the objective value it achieves and the constraints it satisfies, so you can audit it, explain it to a board, and act on it with confidence.
It runs on the same control-plane data already flowing through Orca Suite: routes, lanes, costs, carrier contracts, carbon factors. No manual re-entry. And because the carbon dimension is native, every routing or network decision is costed in both money and emissions from day one.
We are in active build and early access. The engine is live at optimize.orcavera.com, rolling out capabilities as they reach production quality. We are not over-promising a finished product; we are building in the open with early partners.
Who it's for
Model your DC footprint, compare sourcing origins, and find the routing plan that hits your cost and emissions targets, before you sign a contract or move freight.
Run solver-grade vehicle routing and network design for your clients. Replace spreadsheet-based planning with optimal, auditable solutions you can present and defend.
Solve load consolidation, backhaul matching, and multi-stop routing with real capacity and time-window constraints. Cut empty miles and improve margin per lane.
Part of the Orca Suite
Orca Optimizer runs on the same control-plane data as every other product in the suite. Routes, lanes, costs, and carbon factors are shared, so an optimised plan in Optimizer is immediately visible in Flow, and the carbon dimension ties directly into Orca Carbon.
No data duplication. No re-import. One network, multiple lenses.