Optimal Foundation Applications

Optimal Inventory Management & Procurement

Minimum cost inventory stocking, bid selection, purchasing with logistics, food formulation, alloy blending, grocery shopping, and many more.

• Distinct mathematical models for product design, procurement from suppliers, scheduling inventory into production, lot sequencing into batches, blend assembly, and blend correction.
• Optimize for multiple time-periods, multiple locations, multiple suppliers with distinct costs and other factors, full truck load purchases, complex bill-of-materials rules (user defined), minimum and maximum inventory levels, shipping costs, and more.

Optimal Product Mix & Pricing

Maximum profit product mix and pricing; manufacturer or services product mix, product mix with shipping; crop planning, ad buy, raw material or other initial products with disassembly and reassembly to final product.

• Mathematical models for product mix, product mix with shipping, order fulfillment, processing steps inclusive of disassembly and reassembly steps, and pricing.
• Optimize for multiple time-periods, multiple locations, multiple customers with order fulfillment priorities, ship dates, suppliers with distinct costs and other factors, full truck load purchases, complex bill-of-materials rules (user defined), minimum and maximum inventory levels, shipping costs, and more.

Optimal Supply Chain & Production Scheduling

Supply Chain Planning, Production Scheduling, Facility Location, Batch Sequencing.

• Models solve for minimum cost or maximum profit as directed.
• Optimize Supply Chain for:
  • Raw material acquisition
  • Finished product production
  • Finished goods inventory
  • Shipments directly from plants to markets
  • Raw material inventory
  • Intermediate product production
  • Shipments to distribution centers
  • Shipments from distribution centers to markets
  • Market demands with prices for each product
• Optimize product plans for minimum costs changeovers and cleanups.

Optimal Shipping & Routing

Shipping with multi-locations, multiple-periods, multiple items (SKUs) per load; local delivery, carpooling.

• Optimize shipping for multiple locations, trucks, orders, products, driver constraints, mileage, and more.
• Optimize routes for multiple pickups and deliveries, truck capacities, driver constraints, and more.

Optimal Assignment & Selection

Mediation, Portfolio, Personnel Scheduling, Seating Apps, and many more.

Optimal Strategic Planning

Enterprise planning and budgeting based on time value of money.

Optimal Data Exchange Utilities and API

Connect to ERP and other IT systems, partner data and apps, and AI Agents.

Optimal is Cloud Based

Optimal facilitates rapid deployment and support, eliminating most IT support costs, and enabling regular, non-disruptive updates.