Strategic network design and restructuring 

A variety of leading software packages and in house solutions are used in conjunction with operational experience to design solutions which minimise cost and carbon footprint whilst delivering the operational and service objectives. Our experience ranges from supply chain network and warehouse location modelling to complex trunking networks right the way through to high street and home delivery.  CAST is a leading edge supply chain network design application used to model global or regional logistics networks. It has been continuously developed since 1989 to provide consistently superior functionality that meets the increasing demands of the logistics industry. CAST is used within the third party logistics, manufacturing, retail and consultancy sectors on a worldwide scale. www.barloworldoptimus.com For more detailed transport planning and network fine tuning our tool of choice is Paragon.  Paragon provides Routing and Scheduling software solutions for operations ranging from 10 vehicles based at a single site to hundreds of vehicles running out of several sites. http://www.paragonrouting.com  At Key3 we have become particularly skilled at the set up and fine tuning of the Paragon Software whether this be to ensure that strategic projects deliver practical results or helping clients to extract the maximum value from their investment in the software.  We have also built internal tools that maximize the value of the data that can be extracted from Paragon; these include detailed fleet costing models, driver rota optimisation tools and iterative planning tools for time sensitive cross dock/express operations.