Modeling for Impact

Dear colleagues,we are welcoming submissions to the invited session titled “Intelligent and data-driven decision making in green urban mobility” that is organized within the KES International Conference Sustainability in Energy and Buildings. The conference will take place in Santa Cruz, Madeira, Portugal, from the 18th to the 20th of September 2024.This is the Invited session link with details: http://seb-24.kesinternational.org/cms/userfiles/is05.pdfAnd this is the link to the conference website: http://seb-24.kesinternational.org/index.php Deadline for papers submission is: 13th May 2024 The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the KES Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series, submitted for indexing in Scopus and Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and the Web of Science.For more information on the invited Session please contact: chiara.bordin@uit.no Kind regards,ChiaraAssociate ProfessorUiT, The Arctic

Join the second Analytics for a Better World Webinar (ABW-W)    Wednesday - May 27, 2020   17:00PM-18:00PM Central European time 8:00AM-9:00AM Pacific time 11:00AM-12:00PM Eastern time     Speakers:Koen Peters, Head of Development for Supply Chain Planning at World Food Programme (WFP)  and PhD at Zero Hunger Lab, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsHein Fleuren, Professor in applying Business Analytics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and director Zero Hunger Lab   Title:  “Dear mathematician: why are you here? We need to move tonnages and help hungry people!” In this webinar we will highlight Tilburg University’s (The Netherlands) work at the United Nations - World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome. WFP is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, reaching around 90 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year.    By connecting traditional supply chain elements to nutritional objectives, we made significant breakthroughs in the operatio

Dear all, I write on behalf of baobab soluciones, an AIMMS partner based in Madrid.  Since the onset of the pandemics we have decided to support organizations and public authorities and offer our solution development services pro-bono for crisis relief projects. We were thinking route optimisation, workforce optimisation, workload management, load balancing between centres, for healthcare, quick response and critical supply chains. Quick, technically simple projects that will help take the most out of our exhausted common resources. So if you encounter a situation where we can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you very much, Julio

Study 5: Refine Capacity Smoothing This study can help you ensure resource requirements in your supply chain. Impact – As certain resources are forced to close, other resources will experience an increased load. Companies may not be able to adequately ramp up capacity and lose sales.  Action – Inventory must be kept in anticipation of resource unavailability in the future. At the same time, over-utilization must be reduced to not exhaust the resources. How –AIMMS S&OP Navigator enables users to perform capacity smoothing. This incurs a penalty on over-utilization and tries to minimize it by ensuring that inventory has been built up in anticipation of future shortages. It also suggests alternative distribution options for obtaining the product in case the resource in question is unavailable. Demo –Capacity Smoothing in S&OP Navigator This article is part of the series Immediate Supply Chain Actions to Take Amid COVID-19.

Study 4: Create Multiple Plans for Resource Utilization This study can help you ensure resource requirements in your supply chain. Impact –Manufacturing plants and warehouses will experience a sudden shift in resource utilization. There will most likely be a reduction in labor hours as fewer people will work in a closed, crowded environments. This could even lead to total shutdown of certain plants. Action – Study multiple resource utilization what-if scenarios and accommodate your production plan accordingly.  How – S&OP Navigator allows users to simulate changes in resource capacity, labor hours, utilization, production lines and throughput rate dynamically within the application. The output is a detailed production and distribution plan that maximizes your margin. Note:If using your own bespoke app, another option is to re-adjust your objective function. We have seen this work very well in the past where a customer, during a crisis, moved from Production Maximization to Cost Min

Study 3: Identify Optimal Sourcing Locations This study can help you anticipate shortages in your supply chain. Impact – As transportation lanes become unavailable, the availability of suppliers and components will decrease.  Action – There is a strategic incentive in understanding the optimal sourcing location for specific customers, and in understanding the optimal sourcing location for the different resources. This is not to say that there is no value in having multiple supplier options, but understanding who your ideal supplier is can enable you to form the right relationship and expectations with them for the coming weeks.  How – Network Design Navigator enables forcing a single source as a constraint. Once the constraint is relaxed, customers are free to choose from a multitude of suppliers. However, with the constraint enforced, the optimal source of the product can be studied while minimizing both production and distribution costs. Network Design can also be used to make certai

Study 2: Inspect Demand Trends This study can help you understand exposure in your supply chain. Impact –Since demand will significantly fluctuate and spike for a period of time before reverting to the mean, accurate demand signaling for the future becomes a challenge. Misreading these signals often leads to the bullwhip effect. When shoppers decide to hoard all the toilet paper from the stores, it sends a signal through the supply chain to produce more. If the toilet paper companies decide to produce more, extra inventory is pushed into the distribution channel. Inevitably, demand will stabilize and when it happens, the stores will find themselves overstocked since customers are still exhausting their previous purchases. Action – Demand trends must be studied closely and any outliers must be treated to avoid inaccurate resource planning for the future.  How – AIMMS Demand Forecasting Navigator can be used to perform time-series analysis for individual product groups. Machine learning

Study 1: Anticipate Best- and Worst-Case Operations Scenarios This study can help you understand exposure in your supply chain. Impact – Prolonged shutdowns will have both financial and operation implications, which are often very difficult to realize due to the complexity and far-reaching nature of supply chains.  Action – Scenario planning is the key to understanding the many repercussions of sudden changes in demand and operations. Multiple best/worst case scenarios should be run under different demand conditions to study its impact on your supply chain. This can help expose any vulnerabilities in the network and take business a step closer towards preparedness.   How – AIMMS Network Design Navigator allows users to adjust demand for unique customers, locations and products. This means that you can target very specific parts of your demand data and dynamically run different scenarios in those conditions to measure its effect. On top of this, after demand has been adjusted, demand si

Study 6: Accelerate Adoption of Relevant Customer Channels This study can help you ensure resource requirements in your supply chain. Impact – A very likely scenario is an accelerated adoption of certain customer channels, for instance online grocery. These channels might not be able to bear the increased shift in demand. Action – Relevant customer channels must be prioritized and the resource requirements to fulfill their demand must be studied.  How –AIMMS S&OP Navigator allows users to prioritize their customers to increase the fulfillment in that channel. Although a forced higher fulfillment of one channel might lead to an overall lower margin, understanding the impact on your resources of putting a higher burden on that channel could prove to be invaluable in the long run. Demo –Customer Channel Priority in S&OP Navigator This article is part of the series Immediate Supply Chain Actions to Take Amid COVID-19.