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August 13, 2008

Cabot Turns to AspenTech's aspenONE to Improve Scheduling

By Susan J. Campbell


Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals and materials company, has selected Aspen Technology’s (News - Alert) (AspenTech) aspenONE software in an effort to improve its scheduling applications.

Cabot is expanding its use of the aspenONE Manufacturing suite by including aspenONE Supply Chain in an effort to help drive the company’s strategic initiatives. These initiatives include streamlining supply chain processes, improving customer responsiveness, lowering inventory and improving manufacturing productivity.

The use of the aspenONE supply chain solution allows Cabot to be better equipped to predict and respond to customer demands and economically plan across global assets and optimize production. Scheduling can make a significant difference in the productivity and efficiency of a company, creating a demand for solutions such as aspenONE.

Customers using this aspenONE suite can also support dynamic scheduling using the tight integration between manufacturing and supply chain processes to provide real-time input for plan versus actual management. Such insight also helps in future forecasting and planning to improve overall performance.

The aspenONE integrated suite of Supply Chain applications is designed to dramatically improve the supply chain business process of Collaborative Demand Management, Supply Chain Planning and Production Scheduling. Workforce Management: At the Heart of the Contact Center  Learn more, download free white paper.


With aspenONE, companies are also better able to meet business challenges by improving operational performance, reliability and profitability through real-time access and visibility to production information. By providing measurable improvements, companies can help to drive growth and increase customer retention.

AspenTech's flexible license agreement will allow Cabot to control how aspenONE applications are deployed across the enterprise as their business needs evolve. Such scalability and flexibility lends itself well to strong business growth, while also allowing the company to produce significant returns internally.  

"This expanded license agreement with Cabot Corporation demonstrates the strong relationship between our two companies, and highlights the unique value that aspenONE's integrated manufacturing and supply chain solution delivers," said Antonio Pietri, executive vice president, AspenTech, in a Wednesday statement.

"The improvements in customer service, working capital and manufacturing productivity provided by the integrated aspenONE solution make it easier for process manufacturers such as Cabot to achieve their operational excellence goals."

A provider of process optimization software and services, AspenTech’s integrated aspenONE solutions are designed to enable manufacturers to reduce costs, increase capacity, and optimize operational performance end-to-end throughout the engineering, plant operations, and supply chain management processes.

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Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan's articles, please visit her columnist page.


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