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. 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.

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.