News: Supply chain students at Cranfield to use CAST software from Barloworld SCS
Global supply chain planning company, Barloworld Supply
Chain Software (Barloworld SCS), will be taking a number of
sessions at Cranfield School of Management to support its logistics
and supply chain courses.
The CAST Aurora software from Barloworld SCS
will be used in both the full time MSc in Logistics and Supply
Chain Management and the Executive (part-time) MSc in Logistics and
Supply Chain Management.
"We believe that the use of market leading technology, CAST
Aurora software from Barloworld SCS, will enrich our logistics and
supply chain courses," says Dr Andrew Palmer of Cranfield School of
Management. "It will support the academic theory of supply chain
planning with 'hands-on' problem solving experience in an advanced
supply chain planning software environment."
CAST Aurora, a decision support software application used for
supply chain modelling, strategic network design and
optimisation, is the next generation in CAST Supply Chain Modelling
software. CAST Aurora helps companies across various business
sectors to identify savings and enhance efficiency within their
supply chains, and users can typically expect to achieve a 10-15%
saving on their supply chain costs.
Barloworld SCS specialists, including Jim Wilson, Strategic
Planning Product Manager, will take sessions at Bedfordshire's
Cranfield School of Management, part of Cranfield University and
one of the world's leading business schools, to demonstrate the
software to the students and provide expert answers and practical
advice.
"These hands-on sessions will be supported by a case study and
project examples" explains Jim Wilson of Barloworld SCS. "By
offering tangible, real-world examples of how companies have
re-engineered their supply chains, through the application of
advanced supply chain planning theory and optimisation software, we
hope to enhance the delegates' learning experience."
After a short introduction to the concepts and application of
network design the candidates will be challenged with a spread
sheet based exercise where they must find optimum distribution
locations to service a European demand. They will then look at how
this problem is constructed and solved using CAST software.
Barloworld SCS specialists will cover the fundamentals of the
different optimisation techniques, before allowing the candidates
to access the CAST software to model a range of network
optimisation challenges focussing on cost, service level and
capacity utilisation.
"The knowledge and expertise that the Barloworld SCS specialists
can offer will be invaluable to the students," adds Dr Andrew
Palmer. "Having the experts that use and have developed that
software, is going to be a real asset to the course."