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ArthurFormer AIMMSian
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Community Guidelines

This community is open to AIMMS software users, AIMMS employees, and the public. Please adhere to the following guidelines to help keep this community organized, engaging, and friendly for everyone. We may update these guidelines as needed, please refer to the current version if in doubt. Use of the Community Respect others Avoid double-posting - search for the topic before creating a new post Post in the most relevant forum Be mindful that your post will be visible to all Do NOT post any personal information (phone numbers, addresses, payment information, etc.) about yourself or others AIMMS logo and trade name are strictly reserved for AIMMS employees and moderators - private users may NOT use them as avatar or username Inappropriate content AIMMS moderators reserve to right to remove any inappropriate content (including images). This includes: Discrimination of any kind Threatening posts/behavior Advertising or spam Swearing Personal details

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Arthur
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Jess Es
Jess EsGrand Master
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Introduce yourself!

Welcome to the AIMMS Online Community!Our community is getting bigger every day, and it would be great to get to know each other a little better. Here you can introduce yourself briefly and say hi. 👋 For inspiration, you can use these questions... What’s your name?  Where are you from? 🌍 What are you currently working on? 📊 What makes you excited about AIMMS? 🤓 Which special skill that you have will help you survive a zombie apocalypse? 🤔

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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
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Welcome to the AIMMS Community!

Welcome to the AIMMS Community! We believe that our users have a lot of useful knowledge to share. That's why we have created this space. On these Community pages you can: Read latest product news & updates Find answers to your questions Follow topics of special interest Share your knowledge with other users Connect with people in your field Give feedback to support and development Please come on in, have a look around, join a discussion, or start your own! Please, get familiar with our guidelines for this community. Sincerely, Team AIMMS

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Jess Es
Jess EsGrand Master
published in What's New at AIMMS
Marcel Hunting on the AIMMS Scaling toolInside AIMMS

Automating a manual process: the new AIMMS Scaling tool We recently released a new Auto-scaling feature as part of the Math Program Inspector with AIMMS 4.74. This feature can improve the quality of your model with much less manual testing and guesswork when it comes to scaling factor determination.  Hear from @Marcel Hunting , who led development of this feature, about how Auto-scaling came about, when to use it, and how your model can benefit. Marcel is part of R&D as well as the Support Team at AIMMS. How can users identify scaling issues?Users are usually not aware about scaling issues in their model. Modelers raise their awareness when they suddenly encounter an issue with the post-solve, for example. Usual symptoms of a poorly scaled model are:  AIMMS post-solve warnings “solution not reliable”, or “could not find a solution"  A small infeasibility due to rounding errors in the constraint  Instability of the solution, that it would return slightly different solutions  In

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Get Certified with AIMMS AcademyNews

We’re excited to bring you a new learning center: AIMMS Academy. AIMMS Academy will offer courses and certifications for all AIMMS users, from beginners to expert modelers. These training resources will help you develop your modeling skills, improve team collaboration with AIMMS features, and advance your career through certifications. It allows you to start learning at your convenience and follow courses at your own pace.  Available courses Currently, we have the following courses open for enrollment:  My First App: learn the basics of AIMMS app development    Introduction to Linear Programming: learn to recognize a decision support problem and solve it in AIMMS   Units of Measurement: Learn to use units of measurement in your AIMMS model, improve unit consistency and scale properly against numerical instabilities (intermediate level)  Network Design: learn to design your supply chain network and use scenario modeling to test configurationsMore courses and learning paths to come Stay

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Partner Spotlight: UniSoma’s Volnei dos Santos on the Growth of Analytics and Data Science in BrazilInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. In this interview, we hear from UniSoma, a provider of advanced analytics solutions with 35 years of experience in the market. Based close to São Paulo in Brazil, UniSoma is AIMMS’ leading partner in Latin America. Together, we have helped companies like Tereos, Petrobras, Arcelor Mittal, Suzano, Marfrig and JBS improve supply chain decision-making. Read the interview with the company’s Technical Director, Volnei dos Santos, to learn more about their role in the Brazilian market and how data science has gone mainstream. Volnei, can you tell us more about your role at UniSoma? As Technical Director, I am responsible for choosing the technologies we use to address our customers’ business problems. I also organize our technical teams to best meet customer needs. Our relationships with customers vary. For example, it could be a project-based relationship, whe

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Gertjan
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GertjanChief AIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
An insider’s view on the AIMMS WebUI: why, how and what is coming nextBlog

AIMMS emerged 30 years ago to bring the benefits of optimization to society. The internet was in its infancy back then. As many of you know, our original UI was made for Windows, which meant that end users would need to use the Windows operating system in their computers to run AIMMS Apps. As time passed and the internet came of age, we realized that to truly democratize the power of optimization, AIMMS needed to be in the browser. That’s why we decided to develop the AIMMS WebUI, a tool that helps you build optimization apps in a browser, on any device, and create a web-based user interface for end users. Our decision to build the WebUI coincided with the launch of AIMMS PRO, which also made the deployment of AIMMS Apps more seamless. Besides making AIMMS software more accessible, the WebUI had a powerful side-effect. Suddenly, we could also make the output of AIMMS apps available for managers, mid-managers and anyone who wanted to see the results of their data through a brows

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
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Partner Spotlight: Districon’s Jack Pool on Driving Change with Optimization ProjectsInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. This interview is the first in a series that will shed light on the achievements of our partners. Districon is one of these valued partners. Districon is a Supply Chain specialty firm with offices in the Netherlands, the United States and Singapore. The company creates Supply Chain solutions to help clients address strategic, tactical and operational challenges. Read this interview with Districon's Managing Director, Jack Pool, to hear about the long-lasting impact they have had at clients and how they help organizations drive change. Jack, Districon and AIMMS have worked together for a long time. How did this relationship develop? Well, that’s an interesting story. About 10 years ago, HEINEKEN, one of our main clients, was working with us to do distribution studies. They used AIMMS and basically told us that we needed to start using AIMMS as well. We

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Jan-Willem
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Jan-WillemAIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Why nearly 90% of New Customers Choose the AIMMS CloudBlog

It’s been more than two years since we launched the AIMMS Cloud Platform. During this time, we’ve seen the AIMMS Cloud grow in both its use and robustness. In this article, I’ll share some highlights of the technology behind it and why we’re pleased to see that almost 90% of new customers choose to deploy their Apps using the Cloud. AIMMS Cloud Platform: the early days We officially released the AIMMS Cloud Platform at the AIMMS Summit in 2017, but we had been working with three launching customers for almost a year ahead of that time. Enterprise IT adoption of cloud was accelerating. We noticed that most of our customers were experiencing IT-related friction when adopting AIMMS PRO. They were dependent on the prioritization, capacity and skills of their company's IT departments. They also had a hard time answering questions from their IT colleagues, such as the sizing required. This friction was delaying their time-to-value and distracting them from their key task: initiating and m

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Jan-Willem
AIMMSian
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Arthur
ArthurFormer AIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Take your model documentation to the next level with our new, open-source Sphinx theme

  Our User Support team has been working on very exciting changes that will make AIMMS documentation a lot easier to find and navigate through. One of those changes has been the transformation of the AIMMS Function Reference from a PDF into an HTML site. This is a pretty big deal for us. Not just because the Function Reference is now more seamless to use, but because we achieved this using a template that you can use to build your own AIMMS documentation site too! We have open-sourced the theme files in GitLab. Read on to find out what got us here and why we’re so thrilled to share this with you.    First, a word about the AIMMS Function Reference       The AIMMS Function Reference is the go-to guide for all the functions, sets, and procedures in the AIMMS core. They are the pre-declared building blocks of the AIMMS language. When we first started out, these got documented in a PDF. That PDF grew over the years and, as you can imagine, it became quite long and difficult to maintain. So

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Jess Es
Jess EsGrand Master
published in Finding your Way Around
AIMMS Community FAQF.A.Q.

Welcome to the AIMMS Community!To get you started, here are a few basics about making or updating an account, following topics, and communicating with others. Using the platformSee our virtual tour video Community Guidelines Subscribe to a topic or category Connect with other community membersYour accountRegister as a new user View or edit your user profile Add a signature to your profile Change your profile avatar Change your password Settings for notification emailsMaking postsEdit or delete your post Quote other community members Report a post as inappropriate  

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Jess Es
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Jan-Willem
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Jan-WillemAIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
AIMMS Information Security: What and HowBlog

In recent years, information security awareness has increased greatly in the industry, and so have the threat levels. We frequently receive questions from customers about our security policies and what we do to look after their data. In this article, I will try to provide you with an overview of our approach and activities in the realm of IT security.   Information security touches almost every part of our business and our customers expect us to act securely in all our activities and to deliver secure products and services.   We have been investing in information security for a long time, especially since we started developing the AIMMS Cloud Platform. The move to the cloud brings great benefits to our customers, but also increases our responsibility. At least a third of our development efforts for our cloud platform were and are devoted to security. In the following section I will outline what this has led to so far.  AIMMS Cloud Platform Security    We worked hard to meet our custome

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Jan-Willem
AIMMSian
4 years ago
Jess Es
Jess EsGrand Master
published in What's New at AIMMS
Partner Spotlight: Communication Insights from CQM's Jacob Jan PaulusInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. For the next installment in our Partner Spotlight series, we spoke to Jacob Jan Paulus, Senior Consultant at CQM. CQM is a data science consulting firm based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. They offer optimization, statistics and AI applications with focus ranging from industry, retail, and service.CQM has been a partner almost since the beginning of AIMMS – about 30 years. How has the relationship developed over the years?We’ve currently got about 15 specialists who use AIMMS regularly. In the last few years we’ve had some bigger projects, which brought us in closer contact with the AIMMS support team, and resulted in a growing relationship with R&D. In working together, we have shared insights about users’ needs and provided a lot of input for the development of new features.How has AIMMS been a part of your career with CQM?I used AIMMS while I was tea

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
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How leading retailers prepare for the holiday seasonInterview

It’s hard to beat Santa’s supply chain. Who else offers present deliveries to millions of households around the world in a single night? Even our favorite retailers are not there yet! We like to think new methodologies and tools are helping them get a little bit closer, though. In this interview, Districon’s Sander van Lokven shares insight into how retailers prepare for the holiday season. Districon is a supply chain specialty firm and an AIMMS partner with more than 40 years in the business.  Sander, can you start by telling us about yourself and your experience in supply chain optimization?I have a background in Operations Research and worked as a process consultant for Districon in EMEA, delivering optimization projects for nine years. Two years ago, we started working with Peapod to design their warehouses and we set up a Districon branch in Chicago. I'm now responsible for our North America operations and manage a team of six consultants here in the Chicago area.Peapod is one of

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gijsdullaertAIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Reflecting on 30 years of AIMMSBlog

Thirty years ago, our founder Jan Bisschop started AIMMS with a vision: to develop technology that would make it easy and intuitive to build optimization models and user applications, in one go. Jan handed over his ownership of AIMMS in 2003. Through a management buy-in, I became a shareholder and leader at AIMMS. Since that moment, I see it as my primary role to serve AIMMS in unleashing its full potential, and to be the steward of Jan’s legacy.  In 2012, we made an important strategic decision at AIMMS, in our quest to bring the amazing benefits of optimization to society. We realized that to increase the positive impact of AIMMS, we needed to get closer to the business side, where the value of AIMMS is “consumed.” Since our company was founded, most customer projects had been in the field of Supply Chain and Operations, so we started adding a supply chain management chapter to the AIMMS journey. In past years, we have been working on two important and large product development proje

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gijsdullaertAIMMSian
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New leadership transition at AIMMS

Dear Community,I’m pleased to announce that as of April 1, I have turned over my leadership roles at AIMMS to a team of experienced colleagues with whom I have been closely working together for many years. As non-executive board member and shareholder, I will continue to steward AIMMS towards expressing our purpose, living our values, and unleashing our full potential. Last October, I shared my intention to hand-off my leadership roles. As a follow-up, a group of experienced AIMMSians ran a project to determine the best way forward, ensuring continuity and a seamless transition.The team that is taking over my roles is more than ready to do so. Many of you have known them for quite some time. Key strategy and product roles are led by Gertjan de Lange and Marcel Roelofs. Patrick Donders is responsible for Customer Success. Sergi Asensi leads new Customer and Partner Acquisition. Laura van Dijken oversees Marketing and Communications. Pauline Nobel heads up HR. Jan-Willem van Crevel is ta

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Arthur
ArthurFormer AIMMSian
published in What's New at AIMMS
Why we started the AIMMS Online CommunityBlog

Why we started the AIMMS Online Community It’s been three decades since AIMMS was founded. Throughout the years, we’ve had a very close relationship with our users. Many of them have contributed to build and improve our product. From creating schedules for their children’s school to optimizing country-wide power grids and designing flights routes for those in need. We’re reminded of all the impactful things our users achieve with AIMMS every day and we’ve discovered that they can be quite passionate about our software. Our Online Community was the logical next step to bring AIMMS enthusiasts together. A place that supports you in your optimization journey Applying optimization is a journey. From time to time, there will be moments where you could use help or inspiration. We find that our users are increasingly asking for documentation, use cases and best practices. They also want to hear what other customers are doing and want to share their know-how with peers. Our Onlin

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Jess Es
Jess EsGrand Master
published in Finding your Way Around
Register as a new userF.A.Q.

Most pages in the Community are public, so you can search for help without logging in. However, you will need to sign up if you want to ask questions, join discussions, or submit product ideas. To sign up: Click the Login button in the top right corner. Click Create an account. Fill out the information and click Register. That's it! You'll receive a welcome email with further instructions to verify your account.

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
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Partner Spotlight: ORTEC’s Frans van Helden on Building Lasting Relationships in the Analytics IndustryInterview

As part of our interview series with AIMMS partners, we spoke with ORTEC's Frans van Helden. Frans is Managing Director of ORTEC’s Data Science and Consulting Division. With 39 years in the industry and a team of 1,000 people working from 13 countries, ORTEC leverages data and mathematics to create value for businesses and society at large. AIMMS’ partnership with ORTEC spans more than two decades. Read the interview with Frans to uncover how our shared passion for mathematics has generated value for some of the world’s largest organizations.  Frans, AIMMS and ORTEC have been partners for 20 years. How have you seen the partnership and the industry develop overtime? Indeed, AIMMS and ORTEC have been partners for about 20 years now. I think the main reason our partnership has been successful is that both organizations have a similar core purpose. AIMMS brings the benefits of optimization to society and ORTEC uses a passion for mathematics to improve our world. AIMMS is quite an importan

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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
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Widgets Actions

In case you missed it, we released Dialog Pages and Workflow Procedures last week. Following up on our workflow improvements, we are currently developing Widgets Actions for the AIMMS WebUI. These will allow you to take actions close to where your data resides (like a right-click menu). A small preview is available in the screenshot below.

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Gertjan
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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
published in What's New at AIMMS
Boost your AIMMS Know-how with our Remote Standard Workshops

Our Standard Workshops have gone virtual to accommodate the needs of our customers. They will take place over 4 half days. These hands-on workshops are led by a member of our support team and are geared to help you to make immediate use of the advanced productivity tools and features in AIMMS. We are pleased to announce new dates and session topics below:    June 22 – 25   4 mornings, CEST - exact time to be determined   Trainer: Arthur d’Herbemont     July 13 – 16   4 mornings or afternoons PDT - exact time to be determined   Trainer: Mohan Chiriki    Workshop fee    This training is free if you hold a subscription to a Developer’s License.  If you don’t have a license and you would like to join, please send an e-mail to support@aimms.com to request more information.    Topics covered    In this training we will tell you a bit about the history of AIMMS (the company). But this training will mostly be about learning you the basics of AIMMS: How to build your first AIM

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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
published in What's New at AIMMS
Set your project up for success: Part 4, UI and UX

Thinking about User Experience is not optional This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.” We all know that users’ expectations have changed about what an app should be. Not only should your app serve its primary functions, but also provide information in an attractive and easy-to-digest way. It should fit into the user's workflow and avoid friction. In my experience, good user experience (UX) is the basis for acceptance of the app and of the outcomes of the app. It doesn't mean just cosmetics, like adding a few graphs and matching the button colors to the company logo. It means really understanding how your user will use the tool, in what context, and structuring to facilitate that purpose.Good User Experience (UX) is the basis for acceptance of the app and of the outcomes of the app.  Know your possibilities, and your limitsIn the AIMMS platform, a model developer can build the whole User Interface (UI) – and we're doing our best to keep delivering WebUI too

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Gloria QuintanillaFormer AIMMSian
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Get answers to your Frequently Asked QuestionsF.A.Q.

If you have a question about any of our products, you’ve come to the right place. Over time, we noticed some popular questions asked by our Community, so we compiled them here. We’re also sharing some helpful resources below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, choose a forum to post your question based on the product: AIMMS Developer AIMMS PRO and Cloud Platform AIMMS Network Design SC Navigator (Data Navigator, AIMMS IBP and S&OP) AIMMS WebUI  Popular ResourcesGetting Started Guide WebUI basics WebUI feature mapping Building workflow panels in AIMMS WebUI Excel connection Examples of what you can build in AIMMS Debugging an infeasible model Solvers supported by AIMMS Introduction to AIMMS PROCheck out our Support Center for additional documentation and resources Popular AIMMS Developer Questions How to get a variable range subset of a set?Multiple optimization in AIMMSCalling AIMMS from PythonHow to set Stop Criteria for Math ProgramsHow to Link to Excel FilesReporting the

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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
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Set your project up for success: Part 3, Data management

Determine what data from which sources is needed   This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.”   Start with the assumption that this aspect is going to be difficult – even in successful projects.  Companies have a lot of unstructured data. Acknowledge that it will be a big task to get the "right" data in the "right" format.  Prepare clear documentation of what data you need, and consider all sides of it. In what format should data be?  Where does it come from? How you will get it into AIMMS? In what order does it need to go in? How you will store it? In what type of database should it be stored? What will you do with the data after AIMMS has optimized it? Consider how often you will need fresh data – and whether you need a full set of new data, or just a delta containing the changes to previous data.   The more details you know up front, the easier it will be to track down the data and explain to the responsible parties what they need to provide

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Patrick
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Patrick
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PatrickAdministrator
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Set your project up for success: Part 1, Know the key areas

Devote time to key areas in your plan for success One of the very first posts on our Community is "How to create a reliable and successful AIMMS application" which provides tips for developers and project managers. This topic is crucial for many of our customers, and is well worth revisiting from an even higher level for all stakeholders.  As Director of User Support & Customer Success, I have evaluated many AIMMS projects. Evaluation shows that "just" making a good model with AIMMS is no longer sufficient for a successful project and a happy customer. An AIMMS implementation is increasingly a software implementation, including everything that comes with it.   The developer is increasingly becoming part of a team of specialists, including IT specialists, data connection experts, and UI or interaction designers.  An AIMMS implementation is increasingly a software implementation, including everything that comes with it.    The main reasons for this:  Applications developed w

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