Next Generation Network Optimisation - Barloworld SCS launches CAST Aurora

March 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Barloworld Supply Chain Software is launching its latest modelling software, CAST Aurora, and says that businesses using it can expect 10-15% savings from their supply chain with faster and more complex modelling capabilities.

Global supply chain planning company, Barloworld Supply Chain Software (SCS) is launching CAST Aurora, the next generation in CAST Supply Chain Modelling software, for companies across various business sectors to identify savings and enhance efficiency within their supply chains.

“CAST Aurora is a decision support software application used for supply chain modelling, strategic network design and optimisation” says Fraser Ironside, of Barloworld SCS, adding that CAST users can typically expect to achieve a 10-15% saving on their supply chain costs.

CAST Aurora will be officially launched at Multimodal 2011, at Birmingham’s NEC on Wednesday 6 April, where visitors to the Barloworld SCS stand will have opportunity to trial the software.

The latest addition to Barloworld SCS’s suite of supply chain modelling and inventory optimising software products, CAST Aurora can be used by third party logistics, manufacturing, consulting and retail companies to evaluate and identify different supply chain strategies, leading to significant cost savings & service level improvements.  

“Technological developments have helped to enhance the software’s capabilities.  Scenarios that previously may have taken hours to run through the software, can now be carried out in minutes, in a single sitting” says Fraser, explaining that users are now trying more scenarios, more regularly.  

A key feature offered by the new CAST Aurora, is the multi time period function, which enables companies to not only identify the ideal location for warehouses, for example, but also the ideal times to open and close warehousing facilities, based on seasonal peaks in demand and seasonal falls in supply. “CAST Aurora can flex capacities in the network and tactically size resources by time period” Fraser says.

Barloworld SCS’s suite of software solutions helps companies to enhance their entire supply chain, through the application of warehouse location planning, carbon emissions modelling, service lead-time analysis, stock profiling and classification, inventory forecasting, demand planning and excess stock management.

Barloworld Supply Chain Software is a leading global supply chain planning company, helping companies to optimise their supply chain networks, inventory and transportation.  Visit http://www.barloworldscs.com.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Barloworld Supply Chain Software is a leading global supply chain planning company, providing expertise, tools and solutions to help companies optimise their supply chain networks, inventory and transportation.

It has over 20 years’ experience in supply chain planning, with more than 400 software installations across over 600 international clients, supported from offices in the UK, USA, Africa, U.A.E, China and partners worldwide.

Barloworld Supply Chain Software provides planning software and methodologies to support supply chain efficiency and continuous performance improvement. It offers global solutions in: Network design, Demand planning and forecasting, Inventory management, Inventory strategy, Integrated demand and supply planning, Carbon emissions optimisation and Transportation management.

Barloworld Supply Chain Software is part of the Logistics arm of Barloworld Plc, a South African multinational with over 18,200 employees and a turnover of more than $5.9 billion.

For further information please visit http://www.barloworldscs.com

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About Barloworld Supply Chain Software: Barloworld SCS is a leading global supply chain planning company, providing expertise, tools and solutions to help companies optimise their supply chain networks, inventory and transportation.
It has over 20 years’ experience in supply chain planning, with more than 400 software installations across over 600 international clients, supported from offices in the UK, USA, Africa, U.A.E, China and partners worldwide.
Barloworld SCS's software and methodologies support supply chain efficiency and continuous performance improvement.
Solutions include: Network design, Demand planning and forecasting, Inventory management, Inventory strategy, Integrated demand and supply planning, Carbon emissions optimisation and Transportation management.
Barloworld Supply Chain Software is part of the Logistics arm of Barloworld Plc, a South African multinational with over 18,200 employees and a turnover of more than $5.9 billion.