Lexian is the world's only supplier of integrated logistics event management software. Lexian is also Australia's leading user of supply chain optimisation software and has exclusive use of the Barloworld Optimus inventory methodology and software

An insight into the future of the supply chain industry made by UK-based software developers and consultants Barloworld Optimus has been included in one of the world’s most influential executive user manuals Supply & Demand Chain Executive published in New York this week (July 30th).
The Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 is widely viewed as the key user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation - and this year the Solihull-based company has been included in the publication’s list of 100 top performers.

Based on submissions from end-users and solution providers, the top-level editorial advisory board selected a Barloworld Optimus feature forecasting a major global swing towards carbon reduction and optimization, inventory optimization, and risk management – underlining the 34-man company’s position as one of the world’s foremost supply chain innovators.

In the 1,000-word feature written specifically for the New York-based publication, Barloworld Optimus’ Global Business Development Director Fraser Ironside forecast that the next few years will see more and more companies turning to technology to address increasingly-complex supply chain issues – with as many as seven out of ten UK companies turning to technology to help them slash their carbon emissions by 2013.

“Against a background of supply chain costs escalating by a massive 60% over the past decade, and an economic world hit by increased global volatility, rising interest rates, rocketing fuel prices, the growing industrial aspirations of China, Russia, India and other regions, having the right software in place alongside the required skills to make it work to its best advantage is likely to prove the key to ultimate success or failure as the world of the supply chain pro becomes ever more complex” he said.

Last year, Barloworld Optimus posted its best results ever, boosted by record sales of its world beating applications CAST network modelling program, CAST-CO2 carbon emission application and advanced inventory optimisation application Optimiza.   CINO (Combined Inventory Network Optimisation) – a major new tool specifically developed to address the supply chain complexities of multi-sourcing and multi-echelon inventory flows across a network – is due for formal launch later this year.

Drawing-on hard-hitting analysis and unbiased case studies to help executives and supply management professionals meet the challenges of the 21st century, Supply & Demand Chain Executive editor Andrew K. Reese said this week that its readers rely on the publication to learn about new solutions and best practices for enabling the supply chain, to understand trends in supply chain technology, and to benchmark their own companies' enablement initiatives with those of other enterprises across industry verticals.

"The corporate executives and line-of-business leaders who rely on the magazine want to know what the different supply chain solution and service providers are doing to help them gain competitive advantage”.
The Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100 is featured in the current edition of the publication and online at www.SDCExec.com/SDCE100.