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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS-based optimization to plan flights for families in need. Angel Flight West route optimization in AIMMS.

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS-based optimization to plan flights for families in need. Angel Flight West route optimization in AIMMS.

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Lora Cecere on Supply Chain Metrics that Matter

AIMMS

And the opening chapter in the book is an actual case study about a team meeting I attended where they would have the inventory “target of the month”. There are just too many intricacies so it requires more advanced analytics and optimization. Yes it is definitely a journey. People like stories.

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CFO Beating You Up Over Rising Freight Costs? Hit Back with a TMS

Talking Logistics

With an average per-load cost of just a few dollars, transportation leaders cannot understand why CFOs and finance stakeholders deny budget approvals for new logistics IT solutions like TMS, optimizers, fleet management tools and others. There will definitely be more recessions as well as more periods of expansion.

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TMS in the Cloud: Some Lingering Misconceptions

Talking Logistics

In the early days of cloud TMS, there was some element of truth to this, mainly because those early versions lacked optimization capabilities, but that’s no longer the case, which brings us to the next misconception. Access to data was another consideration.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

If we optimize the parts, we will optimize the whole. From the 1944 perspective, the world of physics had been grappling with the idea that none of this is actually true for the previous 30 years or so. ” The 1944 Job Relations trainer’s manual is silent on any direct definition of “Good Relations.”

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7 Reasons Why the Supply Chain Matters to Business Success

Logistics Bureau

The definition above is not from any textbook, but is simply one that I’m sure you’ll agree, describes a state of affairs that any corporate leader or business owner would be happy to arrive at. Mini Case Study: Walmart. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool. SEE ALSO: Cost to Serve and Business Profitability.