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Benchmarking Optimization Tools for Scale: AIMMS vs. Pyomo & JuMP

Benchmarking Optimization Tools for Scale: AIMMS vs. Pyomo & JuMPLarge-scale optimization plays a vital role in solving complex problems across industries. As models scale in size and complexity, performance becomes critical — especially in enterprise settings where fast turnaround is a must.With the release of AIMMS 24.6.1 in late 2024, we introduced a redesigned model generation engine, purpose-built for large-scale use cases. To evaluate its real-world impact, we asked Deanne Zhang to lead a comparative study on performance.The study benchmarks AIMMS against two popular open-source tools — Pyomo (Python) and JuMP (Julia) — using anonymized logistics workforce models featuring 1M+ variables and constraints. It focuses on model generation time and total execution time, offering a practical lens on tool performance at production scale.The results are insightful — and relevant for anyone navigating large, mission-critical optimization workflows.Read it on Medium 

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Democratizing Optimization: An Interview with Cristina RaduInterview

Cristina Radu is on a mission to democratize mathematical optimization. As an expert in supply chain optimization, she’s known for making complex models transparent and accessible to both users and consultants. Through her platform Optimization4all and engaging content across channels, Cristina is building a community that bridges the gap between theory and practice.In this interview, she shares her journey, insights, and passion for bringing clarity to the black box of optimization.How do you introduce yourself to a potential new client?I am a supply chain optimization expert. I design and build tools using mathematical optimization. These tools are often seen as a black box. I open that box and bring clarity and trust—ensuring the tools effectively support planning processes.If someone at a pub asks what you do, how do you explain it?I’m a mathematician. I write the equations companies use to optimize their manufacturing and distribution flows.How would you explain to a passerby that

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New AIMMS Feature: End-Users Can Identify Incorrect Data in Case of Infeasibility

SummaryThis new feature addresses the infeasibility problem caused by data. The key function is to generate insightful messages for the end-users as well as additional information which may be used in the WebUI. The app developers can embed this feature in an application by setting the main function to run behind an action in the WebUI and by using parameter annotations to highlight suspicious data.What problem is addressedIn mathematical optimization, even the models which are correctly formulated can face the challenge of infeasibility caused by incorrect input data. For app developers, AIMMS offers already for a long-time several effective tools for dealing with the model infeasibility. However, for end-users, this situation could lead until recently to frustration and uncertainty, with questions like, “Why is the model infeasible?” and “What is wrong with my input data?”What does the new feature do To address this problem, AIMMS introduces a new feature which may be used by the app

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Webinar: "Dealing with Infeasibility Caused by User-Provided Input Data"

When:Monday - December 16, 2024  15:00 PM - 16:00 PM CET09:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST  19:30 PM - 20:30 PM IST Speaker:Marcel Hunting, Algorithmic Capabilities, AIMMS Introduction:In optimization, even the most meticulously designed models can become infeasible - not because of errors in formulation, but due to incorrect or unrealistic input data provided by end-users. This can lead to frustration and confusion when users ask, “Why doesn’t this work?” and expect some explanation as well as actionable insights to correct the problem.This webinar introduces a powerful new feature in AIMMS which tackles the challenge of diagnosing and resolving infeasibility caused by incorrect input data. The focus is on empowering end-users to identify and correct problematic data in a systematic, user-friendly manner, ensuring their optimization models achieve feasible solutions efficiently.Through this new AIMMS function, users can:Detect the root causes of infeasibility: By calculating Irreducible Inconsis

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Get notified when new releases are made

A customer asked us how to keep up to date with releases in AIMMS. We used to send out emails when a new version was released (many years ago), but the frequency is much higher now and felt it would be unhelpful.If you do have an interest in following releases, I have tested out a site (visualping) that can monitor and notify you when there are changes to a site.To be clear, AIMMS (and me personally) have no affiliation with this site - it just seems useful.https://visualping.io/You can add an html and select which part of the site it should compare. If there are changes in that part - you get an email. Simple as that.Here is an example:  Free tier allows you to monitor 5 sites - so it can cover AIMMS, PRO, WebUI and two of your favorite libraries. Most actively updated library is DEX.In case you don't have a link to the release notes handy, here they are:https://documentation.aimms.com/release-notes.htmlhttps://documentation.aimms.com/pro-release-notes.htmlhttps://documentation.aimms.

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Register now for our User Meetup on June 19

Hi everyone,  Registration is open for our User Meetup in three weeks from now on June 19th! This session is for both SC Navigator and AIMMS platform users. This event promises to be an excellent opportunity to engage with our community, get the latest updates, and share your insights. Here’s what we’ve planned for the day: Roadmap update and Q&A (16:05 - 16:55) - We’ll share exciting updates on our roadmap and upcoming features. Break-Out Sessions(17:00 - 18:00) - Deep dive into specific topics with your peers and our experts.  We hope you will join to learn more about our plans, discuss your needs, and connect with other users and our team. Whether you’re looking to gain insights into upcoming features or have specific queries, this meetup is for you.  

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Seeking innovators: share your unique planning models!

Hello everyone,We as AIMMS are constantly on the lookout for fresh and innovative approaches that challenge the traditional ways we think about supply chain planning and organization. If you've created any unique applications that facilitate planning in unconventional ways, I would love to hear from you!Please reply to this thread with your examples and a brief description of how it works. Feel free to include any links, videos, or materials if you have any.Looking forward to your innovative solutions and thank you in advance for your contributions!Warm regards,Zoe Schouten - product manager at AIMMS

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Introducing the AIMMS E-learning CenterNews

As we previously announced, AIMMS E-learning is getting an upgrade!Over the past few months, our team has worked hard to create a more efficient and user-friendly e-learning platform. We have already released several new courses there, and we are finishing migration of our existing courses.We are confident that this platform migration will bring many benefits to our users. We appreciate your understanding as we work to improve your experience with AIMMS.Here's what you need to know about the new AIMMS E-learning Center: End-of-life for Academy: The old version of AIMMS Academy will close on 31 December 2023. After this date, academy.aimms.com will be permanently redirected to the new AIMMS E-learning Center.   Course Migration: The complete migration of all our existing Academy courses to the E-learning Center is in progress.   New Login: You need to create a login for the new E-learning platform, as we will not migrate your registration from the old Academy platform.   Lost Progress: 

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Insights on how we implemented a data monitoring system at AIMMSBlog

This post shares our challenges and insights of working with data from various sources as a data team at AIMMS. We used Great Expectations to power our data monitoring system. With this system we identified data quality issues and prevented unexpected results in our analysis. Most people working in analytics will recognize the following scenario: you need to perform analysis on data which are generated or produced by other teams. Because you are a consumer of the data source and are not managing the data source itself, you need to investigate the data source to learn if the analysis can be done and how confident you can be of the results. However, this is not enough since data can change, and such a change can have a huge impact on the results you are delivering as an analytics team. The data challenge at AIMMSAs a data team at AIMMS we are tasked with creating insights based on the data we collect at AIMMS. This means combining different data sources and performing all kinds of analys

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What's new in Algorithmic Capabilities?

What's new in Algorithmic Capabilities? We keep close eyes on algorithms for optimization, and do our best to bring in new solvers that can benefit AIMMS users. When a new solver arrives on the market, we have a vetting process to see how it compares to those already offered with AIMMS. Additionally, we take into consideration our users' specific needs.Read on to find out more about this process, especially as we added two new solvers last year: Octeract and COPT.  Testing and evaluating Modern linear solvers can read and write MPS files which is a standard file format for presenting linear models. We have a large collection of MPS files which we use to evaluate a new solver using an automated process. This way we can test a linear solver with minimal effort -- we do not have to first create a link with AIMMS. Once we run the solver on our benchmarks of MPS files, we can compare its performance with other solvers. To evaluate a nonlinear solver we have to create a link with AIMMS first

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Community Ideation Summary 2022News

Community Ideation SummaryHi folks!I’m happy to share with you that, last year, our development team delivered 9 of your ideas submitted on this community. These 9 ideas together had 34 user votes.And, there are also 21 community ideas on the product team's backlog or currently in development.Thanks to all who submitted their ideas and comments - we look forward to seeing more of your ideas this year! 2022 Community Ideas at a GlanceIdeas created by users: 7Votes added by users: 39User Ideas delivered by product team: 9 Community ideas delivered in 2022 And, if you’re not familiar with our Ideas page, read on below… What is the Ideation Forum?The Community Ideation forum is a channel open to our customers and partners that helps bring "feature requests" and "wishlist items" into a discussion with the product team and other users.Traditionally, this has been done via tickets to support or in meetings with customer success. However, using the community platform has some additional benefi

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Presenting the AIMMS Roadmap 2023News

Welcome to 2023! The last year was full of improvements and new features, as you can read about in our post:We plan many new exciting releases and updates in the year to come. In this post, we present an updated Roadmap for all AIMMS products, as well as a view to our approach in prioritizing our work. 🔮Our VisionThe Product Roadmap is driven by our Product Strategy team’s vision. We always look to the future of available technologies, the needs of the market, and the needs of our current users. ✋Your FeedbackWe do our best to give users multiple feedback channels to help us prioritize work that will help you the most. The Ideas section of this community platform is a one of those, along with individual sessions with customers, feedback forms and surveys, and a few others. Focus AreasWe focus our development work on improving and innovating in the following areas:🌐Supply Chain AppsOur off-the-shelf supply chain apps, built on the power of our development platform and deployment servi

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AIMMS Greatest Hits of 2022!

🚀 2022 Releases2022 ReleasesHello AIMMS rockers, it’s time again to bring you the best of our releases from the past year!Our rock-stars on the Product team had lots of feature releases with schwing-worthy functionality...so don’t forget to check the full release notes for even more AIMMS action.LET’S GET INTO IT!2022 Releases Supply Chain Apps End-User Experience Input Data Analytics Workflows Optimization Power 🌐Supply Chain AppsSupply Chain AppsNew reports and visualizations, expanded data types, and better data experience...SC Navigator apps The Excel Upload/Download feature for table widgets is now available for all SC apps. Network Design New use cases added for Custom Costs and Custom Objectives, including: Refundable Taxes, End-to-End throughout times, Carbon Constraints per Geography/Activity Type/Mode of Transport. New types of Rate Cards are introduced: Supplier, Resource, and Lane Rate Cards. For Rate Cards, new types of cost are introduced: Fixed Cost Per Trip, Minimum

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(SOLVED) August 30 2022 - AIMMS Cloud Platform on Azure down

12.37hrs (Amsterdam time) - The Azure version of the AIMMS Cloud Platform is down, because a key Azure service is down (compute nodes), most likely because of an operating system (Ubuntu) upgrade. Microsoft and Ubuntu teams are working on resolving the issue. We are expecting another update from Microsoft in the next hours. We will keep you posted.

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AIMMS 4.88 - AIMMS PRO 2.44 (on-premise installation)

This or next week, AIMMS 4.88 will be released (our goal is a September 1-release).You are receiving this email because you (or one of your customers) are using an on-premise installation of AIMMS PRO to deploy AIMMS applications. For applications that are or will be built with AIMMS 4.88 (or future versions) to be published on PRO, it is necessary to update AIMMS PRO (on-premise) to version 2.44, released July 15. https://documentation.aimms.com/pro-release-notes.html It might also affect some Repository Libraries, but that will be solved 'automatically' when you open the model in AIMMS 4.88 (or future versions).If you open the model in AIMMS 4.88 (or future versions) before publishing, the Autolib will find the supported version for all repository libraries in the model and will show a pop-up that versions have been updated, and you need to save the model. Only when the model used a very old version ( <1.0.0) of the Unit Test Library, some incompatibility may arise because an iden

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Input Needed: New How-to Example Structure

Hey community! Hope everyone is doing fine! I come with great news! We are on the process of updating the AIMMS examples, from the app itseft (development/features) to more detailed information on the How-to page. Main changes are:How-to now will have standard topics such as: Story Mathematical Model Language WebUI Features UI Styling Minimal Requirements Each page will have 3 shields: One with the Github ZIP link One with the Github repository link One indicating if the example is on WebUI or WinUI Main Example github repo is going to slowlly be disagreggated. Each example/AIMMS project will have their own github repository. Remember that you can fork any repository from our Github!  The first example updated was the Contract Allocation! It is ready for you to look around and learn from it! 

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1.000 Students!!

We made it! 1.000!We are proud to announce that we have reached the impressive number of 1.000 registered users in our academy! Congratulations to all involved in this!!This is one of our key platforms in providing quality content for our Users.Want to check our roadmap?Thank you everyone!

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AIMMS Campus 2022 is coming!

Get ready for AIMMS Campus, an in-person learning summit for academics and young professionals to expand industry knowledge and network with like-minded people. This event is PACKED with courses on topics in Optimization, OR, and Supply Chain--with plenty of fun activities and networking-time built-in! Like…Talks on topics including Ethics in OR, Machine Learning, Global Health, Army Logistics, and User Experience. Courses by renowned professors and industry professionals. A Hackathon to put your skills to the test. THE STUDENT HOTEL | AMSTERDAM | JULY 11-15 2022 See you in Amsterdam :)Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter  

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AIMMS Workshop & Tutorial at INFORMS Business Analytics ConferenceEvent

Find us at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference!Houston, TX | April 3-5, 2022 AIMMS Workshop From Supply Chain Design to Production Planning April 3, 20221-2:45pm CST In this workshop, you will learn to tackle different supply chain problems using mathematical optimization and scenario modeling.We will cover 3 use cases: Supply Chain Design, Integrated Business Planning and Production Scheduling.  Supply Chain Network Design  Discover a systematic approach to determine the optimal size, location and flows between the nodes of your supply chain, using advanced mathematical modelling.  Supply Chain Planning using IBP  Work out the optimal solution to meet projected demand in a cost-effective way. Gauge the potential implications of decisions by running scenarios to test assumptions, understand risks and create more business transparency.  Bespoke Production Scheduling  Translate your plans into a daily production schedule. Find out how you can achieve this with a bespoke application

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WebUI Insights with Pratap Kumble

Many of us in the online community know @Pratap Kumble, who has been our WebUI product owner for several years. Pratap is based in Bangalore, India and is part of the team at DevOn, one of our software development partners. Pratap is leaving the WebUI team later this month and moving to Germany to take up a new role. He will be succeeded by @Madhu Krishnappa, whom many of our community members also know. But we didn’t want to say goodbye without hearing more about his tenure at AIMMS.  How would you describe working with AIMMS?  It’s been a very different experience for me. With AIMMS, we were given a lot of trust and freedom to do what we think is best. AIMMS is also not a typical software company. Generally, in software development, you develop an application for users. When it comes to AIMMS, your user base is completely different. You are developing a product for modelers to build applications. This means you have 2 audiences: end users and modelers. This makes it an interesting so

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Get certified on AIMMS Academy. Get a tree planted in your name!News

AIMMS’ purpose is to help organizations make confident decisions, powered by mathematical optimization, for a more sustainable world. To further our purpose, we also support reforestation projects around the world through our partner, One Tree Planted. Our goal is to plant at least 500 trees per year. Contribute to our forest and help us reach our goal!Are you certified in our one our courses? Share your AIMMS Academy course certificate on social media using the hashtag #AIMMSAcademy. Send us a link to your social post. We will plant a tree in your name.Join the tree planting campaign or leave a comment below if you have any questions!

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How To - Read and Write CSV Files (updated)How To

The How To 'Read and Write CSV Files' has been updated. CSV files are a de facto standard for communication of data. AIMMS provides the libraries code:DataLink and code:CSVProvider in order to serialize CSV files. This article shows an example of how to read data from a CSV file.

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New Execution Efficiency Master Course on AIMMS AcademyNews

Are you looking to improve the execution efficiency and overall performance of your AIMMS apps? Then this new master course is for you! As you know, your model computes:  the coefficients used in the mathematical program, and  the values shown in an end-user interface after solving a mathematical program. The way these computations are formulated in your model impacts its overall performance. This course consists of two pillars:  A theoretical pillar that explains how AIMMS’ data structures are designed and how sparsity in data is used in computations.  A practical pillar where you change code in hands-on exercises to improve execution efficiency. You'll find, in some cases, that a different formulation can be a hundred times faster.  Enroll today! For questions, please connect with @Chris Kuip, the course’s creator. 

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New Inventory Planning Training on AIMMS AcademyNews

Learn to use AIMMS Inventory Planning in our new 2-hour courseAbout 35% of respondents in our recent survey said that inventory optimization is a strategic priority for their organization. If you’re looking to improve this capability, we invite you to discover AIMMS Inventory Planning in our new course.AIMMS Inventory Planning is an off-the-shelf application that provides a visualization of inventory health and uncovers where your exposed areas exist. The application allows you to easily change parameters and create new scenarios which can be easily compared. For instance, you can use it to:Evaluate service level, overall stock level or safety stock changes. Discover opportunities to reduce inventory and potential service vulnerabilities.  Calculate requirements for spares or MRO Inventory. Visualize the inventory impact of your network design decisions, and understand the consequences of different service level choices when used in combination with AIMMS Network Design.You’ll get a 30

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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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