Barloworld Optimus

Barloworld Optimus is a world class supply chain planning company with more than 600 international clients, offices in the UK, South Africa, Dubai, Spain, Singapore and the US, and a complement of agents and partners around the world. Parent company Barloworld Ltd is one of the largest companies in South Africa with a turnover of $7bn, operations in 31 countries around the world and a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Key Products:

Barloworld Optimus provides supply chain planning software and consulting services in the following areas:

· Network design and supply chain modelling
· Forecasting and demand planning
· Inventory planning and optimisation
· Supply chain carbon emissions modelling

Our solutions:

CAST: used to evaluate and identify different supply chain strategies, in turn leading to significant cost savings and service improvements while allowing customers to design and configure the optimal supply chain infrastructure

CAST-CO2: dedicated to reducing emissions in supply chains. CAST-CO2 can measure either CO2 or Carbon and also has the ability to factor in carbon while optimising supply chain networks

Optimiza - an advanced inventory optimisation application that takes into account the unique supply and demand characteristics of its supply chain, effectively reducing stock levels by between 15-50%, while increasing service levels by as much as 20%

ODP - a purpose built demand management tool designed to create responsive multi level multi channel forecasts with highly flexible financial views

CINO - a major new tool specifically developed to combat the potentially fatal downside of multi sourcing and multi echelon inventory flow