CAST Software for Supply Chain Modelling
Why CAST?
CAST is a powerful, PC based application used for global supply
chain modelling, network design and optimisation. Driven by our
proprietary e-licensing, CAST is used world-wide by third party
logistics, manufacturing, consulting and retail companies to
evaluate and identify different supply chain strategies, leading to
cost savings & service improvements. With over 200 licenses
& 1000 trained users, our clients typically achieve a 10-15%
saving on their supply chain costs through the application of
network optimisation. CAST users are supported by experienced,
local supply chain professionals based in North America, Europe,
Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Perfect for Manufacturers and Retailers
Our manufacturing clients have been using CAST to evaluate the
cost benefits of moving manufacturing from the US & Western
Europe to low cost manufacturing bases in Asia and Eastern
Europe.
Globalisation brings greater complexity thereby raising the need
for software that can consider all components of the supply chain.
Manufacturers are not only looking at developing markets such as
India & China as a source for low cost manufacturing, but also
as domestic consumer markets for their products. The world's most
progressive retailers deploy CAST to identify optimal distribution
infrastructures for their national supply chain networks,
particularly as they expand product ranges; store configurations
and respond to changing demands and costs. Retailers are also using
CAST to design supply chains for overseas market expansion, home
delivery networks and to evaluate alternative and collaborative
sourcing strategies.
Functionality
- Map Displays: CAST uses advanced GIS mapping
functionality to visualise and validate the supply chain, thereby
enhancing visibility & understanding of supply and demand
data.
- Centre of gravity modelling: Used to identify new
warehouse locations & warehouse configurations given supply and
demand volumes by location.
- Service Lead Time Analysis: Used to consider
service levels and transport lead-times across global road networks
for each warehouse configuration tested.
- Cost modelling & optimisation: CAST uniquely
offers 2 solving approaches, a cost minimising heuristic and a
Mixed Integer Programming Optimizer (MIPO). Both are used to
evaluate & identify the 'preferred' or optimal supply chain
configuration and to calculate the Total Cost to
Market for each customer product group record.
- Carbon Emissions Modelling: CAST-CO2 allows a user
to calculate the carbon emissions of any given supply chain. This
allows the comparison of cost, service level and CO2 across
scenarios.
- Reporting: The Report Generator
permits viewing of detailed PDF reports, customised exporting of
results into Microsoft Excel, Access or CSV file format and
interrogation of unit costs by supply chain component for each
scenario in the Scenario Comparison Browser.
Please see the CAST product sheet, below