Designing your ideal supply chain network requires increasingly sophisticated modelling solutions that can cope with the challenges that companies face in a world of global operations. We know that every challenge you face has a number of solutions, only a handful of which could be right for your business. Teamed with our unique methodology, our specialist network modelling software CAST will allow you to identify the right strategic path, when standing at the crossroads.

With over 200 licenses & 1000 trained users, clients typically achieve a 10-15% saving on their supply chain costs through the application of network optimization.

Leading solution

Widely recognized as one of the leading solutions in the market, CAST functionality facilitates global supply chain network modelling with mapping, locations and road network databases for any combination of countries in the world.

Flexibility is a key feature that allows CAST to model specific parts of a supply chain, for example demand modelling alone or alternatively all elements of a global supply chain can be considered within one model. Fixed business constraints can be integrated with optimization methods to produce outcomes that are both customized and cost minimized to specific business criteria.

CAST software

CAST is a powerful, PC based application used for global supply chain modelling, network design and optimization. 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.

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. Globalization brings greater complexity thereby raising the need for software that can consider all components of the supply chain. 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 visualize 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 & optimization: CAST uniquely offers 2 solving approaches, a cost minimizing 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.

CAST-CO2

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.

ComBined approach

Our inventory-optimization modelling tool Optimiza complements CAST by identifying and quantifying the causes of, and requirements for, inventory at each point within your supply chain and can be used in combination with or independently of our CAST software. We also offer a full suite of professional services, designed to allow you to reach your full supply chain planning potential. These can be used in tandem with or independently of our software.