Gist

Already the fifth largest animal feed manufacturer in China, Associated British Foods animal feeds business Associated British Nutrition & Agriproducts (ABNA) approached Gist Ltd.’s Consulting Services division for the tools and know-how to develop a joint approach to optimising the supply chain of one of its customers in North America. Having established that the key to modelling the network was to recognise that it was actually a manufacturing problem - a Bill of Materials of one baby pig plus the appropriate amount of feed producing a fully grown pig of the desired size - Gist employed Barloworld Optimus’s specialist network modelling software CAST to pinpoint savings. While CAST’s findings did not offer a short term fix, the knowledge gained from the modelling exercise allowed the US customer to understand the potential for savings and to construct a road map for the future. CAST also proved to be a powerful tool to provide insight into the strategic drivers of the livestock business, allowing ABNA and their customer to reach a better understanding of their business and potential for savings in the future.

 

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