Event: CAST Aurora 2012 Showcase Series – Long Range Enterprise Planning
CAST Aurora webinar: Long Range Enterprise
Planning
Thursday 31st May 2012 at 08:00 and 15:00 UK Time
(Duration: approx 60 minutes)
This is the 12th CAST Aurora showcase webinar, aimed to provide
insight into next generation, network optimisation
functionality:
The Challenge:
From FMCG, to Aggregates, to Chemical companies, manufacturers
must constantly review their capacities in line with future market
projections, to ensure they invest at the right time, and in the
right place, to meet growing demand. Alternatively, they must
rationalise or 'mothball' manufacturing assets in falling markets
in order to save fixed costs and maintain the efficiency of the
network. Often manufacturing investment & rationalisation
decisions get made in isolation from the demand allocation
decisions arising in the outbound logistics network. Without
holistically considering Production, Warehousing & Distribution
in the same planning environment, companies can implement
sub-optimally, committing millions of capital funds to new, long
term infrastructure assets that can lead to higher supply chain
costs elsewhere in the network.
The Opportunity:
'Best in Class' companies are using multi-time period network
design software to model future annual demand, in order to
understand WHERE & WHEN to invest in or divest manufacturing
capacity in their national, regional & global supply chains.
This capacity planning also optimises the production mix, in terms
of what product is produced where, and trades off manufacturing
capacity against stock building in order to meet demand or supply
volatility. The optimisation of this manufacturing footprint
coincides with the optimisation of demand to the logistics network,
in a single integrated solution that minimises costs or maximises
profits across the entire supply chain.
The Solution:
Core to an effective S&OP process, CAST Aurora can be used to
build an integrated Production & Distribution planning model
that optimises both, the manufacturing set-up & the logistics
network, as well as identifying WHERE & WHEN to invest in
additional capacities in the network to meet future changing market
volumes.
Another Must-Attend webinar from Barloworld
To register for this free event and receive joining instructions
then please select which webinar you prefer to attend:
Register for the 08:00 UK time session at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/246033569
Register for the 15:00 UK time session at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/199331585
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again.
Enjoy!