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Aeroports de Paris
Aeroports de Paris(ADP)'s SAIGA application manages resources at the Orly and Charles de Gaulle international airports.ILOG Gantt for .NET has recently been added to the application. ADP adopted ILOG Gantt for .NET as part of an initiative to incorporate the .NET platform into its operations. The system has improved service at both airports, increasing the satisfaction of the airlines and their passengers.
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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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Baosteel
Baosteel is staying ahead of the competition with ILOG CPLEX. As one of China�s leading steelmakers, Baosteel needed a new planning solution that could quickly fulfill customer orders in a complex environment. With their new centralized system, based on ILOG CPLEX, the company has significantly shortened order-to-delivery cycle time, decreased order confirmation time from days to seconds, and has reduced its planning cycle time from three weeks to one week. Baosteel can now look forward to further expanding its supply chain management capabilities while improving customer satisfaction and setting up new facilities around the world.
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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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Hansol Paper
Optimization can provide dramatic ROI. Hansol Paper has seen the results firsthand. ILOG optimization software helped the newsprint maker cut production planning from 17 hours to just 3. Its new production scheduling system is based on three ILOG products: ILOG CPLEX, ILOG Solver and ILOG Scheduler. With ILOG, Hansol has also improved decision making, shortened sales cycles, and reduced waste and other associated costs.
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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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isMobile
isMobile develops innovative mobile Internet solutions for field and service personnel. isMobile has enhanced its top application with ILOG optimization and visualization software.
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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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Korea Telecom (KT)
Korea Telecom (KT), the largest common carrier in South Korea, has been South Korea's top integrator of wired and wireless communications systems for more than 25 years. KT used ILOG CP to optimize its workforce scheduling system, resulting in faster time to service, near real-time scheduling, automated policy compliance and greater customer satisfaction.
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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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Metro de Madrid
Metro de Madrid, Madrid's Metropolitan railway system, is using ILOG software to streamline workforce and terminal-management operations. ILOG Solver and JViews are key components of new supervision and personnel-scheduling systems. With ILOG software, Metro de Madrid is providing safer, more-efficient transit for its 565 million annual passengers.
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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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Nissan Motor Company
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.'s Sunderland plant in the United Kingdom is renowned as the most efficient auto production plant in Europe. Employing ILOG optimization engines in a production scheduling system allowed Nissan to increase plant production 30% without adding a costly new assembly line. In addition, ILOG visualization components give the system rich, graphical interfaces that enhance ease of use.
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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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Posco
POSCO (Pohang Iron & Steel, Ltd.) is the world's number-two producer of crude steel. The company is able to maximize production while meeting customer demand via an advanced planning and scheduling system powered by ILOG optimization engines. The system also uses ILOG visualization components for a responsive, real-time interface.
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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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PSA Singapore Terminals
As the world's largest container transhipment hub. PSA Singapore Terminals handles
about one-fifth of the world's total container transhipment throughput. As an
integrated facility, its four world-class terminals serve 200 shipping lines, which offer
connections to 600 ports in 123 countries. By using an intelligent ship planning module, developed using ILOG Constraint Programming (CP), the company's loading plan can be produced in less than 30 minutes. PSA Singapore Terminals is recognized as an industry benchmark for its port efficiency, reliability and professionalism. Optimization technology allows it to balance customer service goals and improve staff productivity, while taking into account the company's resources and capabilities.
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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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Sabre Holdings Corporation
Sabre Holdings Corporation markets and distributes travel services through its SABRE computer reservation system. In addition, the company provides outsourcing and software solutions to the travel and transportation industries, and owns a significant interest in Travelocity.com Inc., a provider of online consumer travel services. Sabre uses the entire ILOG suite of products in virtually all its applications, from planning and scheduling to e-travel. ILOG OPL Studio and ILOG CPLEX help design and optimize Sabre's airline flight scheduling and yield management applications, while ILOG JRules provides personalization capabilities. ILOG JViews is being used for yet-undisclosed applications.
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Samho Heavy Industries
Samho Heavy Industries, one of the largest shipbuilders in Asia, manages its resources with a scheduling system based on ILOG Solver and ILOG Scheduler. The powerful C++ constraint-based optimizers weigh all the parameters involved in building a ship and generate solutions that keep Samho's operations on time.
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SAP
SAP AG is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software supplier. The company's mySAP.com collaborative e-business platform includes a major line of supply chain management applications, which relies on ILOG optimization engines to power SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO). SAP also embeds ILOG Dispatcher in its SAP APO transportation planning and vehicle routing application, which helps customers streamline freight delivery and reduce costs.
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Schneider Logistics Inc.
Schneider Logistics Inc. is a leading provider of third-party logistics services across all industries. An advanced vehicle-dispatching application based on ILOG optimization helps Schneider customers cut shipping costs by as much as 25%.
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Siebel
Siebel Systems, Inc., is the world's leading provider of e-business application software, particularly products that automate and improve customer service. Siebel uses ILOG Configurator in its entire line of online configuration offerings for products and services, empowering customers with new opportunities, such as the ability to solve the most complex configuration problems.
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SNCF (French Railways)
For Paris-Nord, a busy railroad station, routing traffic and allocating platforms to trains is a complex process. Every day, Paris-Nord planners at the French National Railway Company (SNCF) handle over 1,700 trains sharing 300 kilometers of network -- a combination that can generate up to 400,000 itineraries. Today, Sagitaire, the new system developed with ILOG Solver, cuts weeks off the tedious process of scheduling trains and helps SNCF draw up timetables which route traffic safely, smoothly and efficiently.
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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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Volkswagen
Volkswagen (VW) Group of Spain uses ILOG optimization software to offer customers custom products, and to optimize production planning. New car-sequencing and production-planning systems have been implemented by leading Spanish system integrator Gedas Iberia in two VW plants. VW and its Spanish subsidiary, Seat, expect to both fulfill the rising demand for customizable cars and boost sales with the new system.
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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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