The existing network maze Flogas is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to homes and businesses throughout the UK. When the company’s steady organic growth was compounded by the acquisition of two other, major suppliers, Flogas’s distribution network quadrupled in just 12 months. The company now had thousands of customers across the country, many in dispersed areas beyond the National Grid, and a distribution network that comprised third-party supply facilities, its own teams and the legacy of acquired depots. The Flogas primary supply chain involved the collection of propane and butane from refineries for delivery into depots, which varied in terms of what they could handle. Once bottled, the cylinders passed into the secondary supply chain, eith

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