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Airbus
Airbus designs, builds, sells and supports the most modern and comprehensive aircraft family on the market. Airbus marketing teams use ILOG CPLEX to power the AIRSIM suite of fleet planning tools. This tool is invaluable for enabling them to generate optimized solutions for both strategic fleet planning and for the allocation of aircraft using Dynamic Capacity Management of Airbus fleets, which are key to supporting airline development planning and marketing campaigns.
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Altoona Regional Health System
With ILOG CPLEX at the heart of the CareWare nurse scheduler, Altoona Regional Health System, a charitable, not-for-profit organization in central Pennsylvania, has solved their scheduling "nightmare," reduced costs and improved medical care. Each month, CareWare creates unit schedules that respect all the constraints for both Altoona Regional hospitals. On a daily basis, CareWare lets managers make schedule changes for their employees online, and the updates automatically go to the main staffing office.
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Ameriprise Financial
Ameriprise Financial, one of the nation's leading wealth management companies, empowers customers to make better financial decisions quicker with their state-of-the art, proprietary financial planning tool, The Lifetime Optimizer, thanks to ILOG CPLEX. With over two million clients and one of the largest advisor networks in the country, Ameriprise wanted to optimize their system to quickly and accurately formulate a complete investment strategy that recommends where clients' existing assets should be held, saved, spent and invested over a period of time.
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AT&T Corp.
AT&T Corporation is one of the largest communications companies in the world, offering a wide range of services to businesses, consumers and government. ILOG optimization engines are helping AT&T business customers quickly select the very best locations for their telemarketing centers by examining a wide range of data. The software has addressed a variety of telemarketing applications from order processing to account management, helping a broad scope of industries make the best decisions.
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BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton is saving over $35 million with ILOG CPLEX as the backbone of their custom mine planning and scheduling system. The new system produces detailed schedules that tell the miners exactly what to do, and the application can produce a schedule in less than a day, allowing BHP Billiton to solve a broader range of problems and tackle previously unsolvable issues.
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Bitwise Solutions, Inc.
ILOG CPLEX helped Bitwise Solutions quickly develop a complex flight-scheduling application called FlightOps. The application enables air carriers to guarantee aircraft availability for customers. Powered by CPLEX, FlightOps finds feasible solutions that schedule planes to finish trips where they are needed next.
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Credit Agricole Asset Management
Crédit Agricole Asset Management uses ILOG JRules and ILOG CPLEX to provide customers with better investment recommendations. Combing ILOG CPLEX and ILOG JRules, CA improves decision making and enhances the quality of its investment advice. Improved customer service creates a unique competitive differentiator for the firm.
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Financial Engines
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Homerton University Hospital
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Homerton University Hospital
Homerton University Hospital in East London properly staffs its shifts with CareWare Staff Schedule Optimizer, a hospital rostering system created with ILOG CPLEX, from Care Systems, Inc., a division of Planmatics, Inc. The staffing requirements of each shift are entered into the system along with special scheduling requests and shift preferences from the staff.
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ITS Abacus
ITS Abacus chose ILOG CPLEX when they had to create a scheduling solution for North-West University (NWU) of South Africa. CPLEX helps the solution create optimized, clash-free timetables for over 30,000 NWU students across multiple campuses. Timetables are displayed with ILOG JViews-based user interfaces, allowing users to easily refine schedules.
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Lufthansa
Lufthansa, one of the world's biggest and most prestigious airlines, uses ILOG optimization software as the power behind a new automatic crew assignment system. Manually creating duty rosters for 3,500 cockpit and 14,500 cabin staff was time consuming and inefficient.
With ILOG CPLEX, Lufthansa has streamlined the scheduling process with automatically processed rosters.
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MineMAX Pty. Ltd.
MineMAX provides software solutions for managing mining operations. ILOG CPLEX helps the MineMAX Scheduler application optimize schedules for excavating and extracting ore. With CPLEX, the scheduler generates solutions that provide mining companies with critical information for strategic decisions. MineMAX customers typically increase their investment return by 2-3%, significant for mines worth billions of dollars.
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Netherlands Railways
Netherlands Railways has chosen ILOG optimization software to help build their new product, Tool Inzet Materieel (Tool for Allocation of Rolling Stock), (TIM). In order to consistently get passengers to their destinations, the company needed an efficient and precise scheduling process. ILOG OPL Development Studio proved to be the right tool for modeling the railway's operations, and ILOG CPLEX is the mathematical programming (MP) engine for deriving optimal solutions from the models. There has been a 5-10 percent improvement in operating efficiency, saving the company �10 million annually.
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Nippon Steel Corporation
Nippon Steel Corporation is the world's largest integrated steelmaker. ILOG Solver and ILOG CPLEX helped its NS Solutions subsidiary automate and optimize coil production for a leading automaker. This supply-chain management (SCM) application creates production plans based on order specifications and available steel stocks. Optimizing SCM for its rolling mill reduces Nippon Steel's scrap metal, inventories and other related costs.
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Parametric Portfolio Associates
Parametric Portfolio Associates provides portfolio management solutions to institutions and wealthy individuals. Its solution automates the optimization of a broad range of portfolios, from $500,000 to $500 million. ILOG CPLEX provides reliable and efficient analysis that allows Parametric to improve customer service and serve a larger customer base.
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Powel ASA
Powel ASA relies on ILOG CPLEX to power systems that schedule power plant operations. CPLEX calculates optimal production schedules for each generator. For small systems, CPLEX algorithms let the Powel optimizer find solutions in only one minute. Even for the largest systems, the optimizer takes no more than five minutes to find a solution (in cases that don't consider startup and shutdown costs).
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Retek Inc.
Retek Inc. is the premier provider of technology solutions for the retail industry. The company uses ILOG CPLEX in its optimization replenishment suite of products for retail supply chain management.
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Sudzucker A.G.
Sudzucker A.G. is the European market leader of sugar products for home and commercial use. ILOG optimization products have helped the company create and run their Seed Batch Distribution System (SBDS). This application uses a mathematical
model built and maintained with ILOG OPL Development Studio to capture the
constraints of the problem to optimally fill the shipments necessary to satisfy thousands of orders from more than 20,000 farmers annually, using an application based on ILOG CPLEX. Deployed in 2003, the application has been highly successful in helping Südzucker meet stringent government regulations.
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The Rainmaker Group
The Rainmaker Group provides software development and consulting services for the travel, hospitality and gaming industries. Rainmaker employed ILOG CPLEX to forecast customer demand and determine appropriate pricing strategies. Using CPLEX, Rainmaker's availability recommendations increased customer revenue by more than 10%.
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United Airlines, Inc.
United Airlines, Inc., is the world's second-largest airlines. United uses ILOG CPLEX for various critical resource-allocation applications, as do most air transportation companies worldwide. Mission-critical applications powered by ILOG engines include crew scheduling and fleet assignments. In addition, advanced ILOG algorithms optimize ticket pricing and fare distribution.
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University of Chile
More than 1.3 million students at 14,000 Chilean schools depend on the National School Assistance and Scholarship Board (JUNAEB) of Chile to feed them daily. The University of Chile has created an auction system for JUNAEB that helps select the best catering companies for each region. Powered by ILOG CPLEX, the system has cut distribution costs by 25%.
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US Postal Service
Delivering the mail requires thousands of postal personnel in every major US city. Scheduling those workers is an ongoing problem for the US Postal Service (USPS). ILOG CPLEX is helping USPS assign workers to the right place at the right time, significantly cutting costs and improving service. The USPS' new scheduling system, powered by CPLEX, is expected to save $135 million on labor costs.
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Vivecon
Vivecon provides supply chain risk-management software for Global 2000 manufacturing companies worldwide. Its Supply Risk and Flexibility Management (SRFM) software helps clients negotiate contracts with suppliers. ILOG CPLEX calculates the results of the varying contract conditions. Using CPLEX, SRFM cuts average supply chain costs by 6-12%.
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Whittle Consulting
Whittle Consulting provides specialized planning services to the mining industry. Whittle's Global Optimizer uses ILOG CPLEX to determine the best path or schedule to increase a mine's net present value. With CPLEX, the application can increase net present value by 5 to 15%.
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