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To provide you with an insight into AIMMS usage, we have created a list of case studies (articles, fact sheets, product overviews etc.) about solutions that are in fact AIMMS applications, or make use of AIMMS components. Most case studies are written by our customers or other external parties for publication in magazines, papers or the internet:

Applied Optimization - United States, AIMMS Service Partner 


Areva Transmission & Distribution (formerly an Alstom Corporation)

Areva Transmission & Distribution (formerly an Alstom Corporation) produces the world-leading 

e-terra™ range of energy management and energy market software for energy networks along with MiCOM® substation automation equipment and related network protection and control.


CentER

CentER is an internationally acclaimed research institute in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Established in 1988, CentER has evolved into a broad-based research institute spanning every field of economics and business administration. In addition, CentER offers outstanding graduate programs in economics and management.


CQM - The Netherlands, AIMMS Service Partner 


Deloitte & SITA 

Deloitte, with approximately 120,000 people in nearly 150 countries, delivers audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services worldwide. Regarding Supply Chain Management, Deloitte has the philosophy that supply chain issues should not be addressed separately but from the perspective of the whole value chain.

SITA is specialist and market leader in Europe, Asia and South America in waste management. In the Netherlands, SITA serves about 80,000 companies, and 100 municipalities with a total of 1.8 million inhabitants.
  • SITA/Deloitte – Waste Management
    Yearly operational cost reduced drastically (over 10 times the project value) through implementation of AIMMS-based waste management planning tool.


Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN)

Energy research Centre of the Netherlands ECN is an independent market oriented organisation for the research, development, consultancy and knowledge transfer in the field of energy and related areas. ECN is the leading institute for energy research in the Netherlands and carries out basic and applied research in the fields of fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, policy studies, environmental aspects of energy supply and the development and application of new materials. It develops and markets technologies and products for safe, efficient and environmental friendly power generation.


Horoz Lojistik

Horoz Lojistik is a provider of integrated services with a turnover of 300 million USD in Turkey. Horoz operates in the areas of air & ocean freight forwarding, international overland trucking, domestic distribution, and warehousing (multi-user and dedicated). Horoz seeks to combine several of these services with IT solutions/integration. 
  • Horoz Lojistik
    Optimization of nationwide fertilizer distribution network with AIMMS: annual savings US$ 400,000


INEOS

Based in Worringen near Cologne (Köln, Germany), Ineos Köln is Ineos´s largest petrochemical site worldwide. Ineos is a key raw materials supplier to the chemical industry. The main base product is naphtha, a by-product from oil refineries.
  • INEOS Köln - DISPO
    The AIMMS modeling system has been used to redevelop the production planning and simulation tool DISPO that is essential in maintaining INEOS Köln’s plant reliability and utilization at over 90%


Innovative Management Concepts

IMC concentrates on using state-of-the-art systems engineering methods to understand our customer's business processes. To ensure that IMC is a leader in helping organizations develop sound requirements and integrate new information technologies into their processes, they have become experts at process and workflow modeling, web site development, web-database integration, and portal development. Hence, IMC is both a Systems Engineering Company and an IT Solutions Company.


KLICT - Chain networks, Clusters, and Information & Communication Technology

KLICT stimulates the development and application of knowledge in the area of chain and network science. Within this process, it serves as a broker and a 'liaison office' between the business world, research institutes, social organizations, and authorities.

First and formost, KLICT focuses on the supermarket industry and the food industry; agribusiness; the transport, distribution, logistics sector; the ICT sector; the packing materials industry; and business services. In the future, it plans to broaden out to include other industrial sectors. 


Merck & Co

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global, research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines in over twenty therapeutic categories. The company also devotes extensive efforts to increasing access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them.  


Ontario Ministry of Resources

The Forests Division of the Ontario Ministry of Resources is committed to sustainable forest management - healthy forests providing balanced environmental, social and economic benefits now and for the future. Ontario is a recognized world leader in its forest and forest fire management programs and practices. Sustainable forest management is critical to a dynamic provincial economy.


OptaSoft, AIMMS Service Partner 


Outperform - The Netherlands & United States, AIMMS Service Partner 
  • Outperform - Master Production Planning
    Outperform’s MPP solution supports the planner on all these aspects: generate new plans that observe all relevant constraints, compare these against other plans swiftly and finally publish the chosen plan for execution.
  • Outperform - Network Analysis
    Outperforms Network Analysis solution helps you answer these kinds of questions with a certainty, which in turn improves the quality of the business decision you make
  • Outperform - Procurement Optimization
    Outperform’s procurement optimization solution helps you to formulate and maintain the right procurement strategy for your company.
  • Outperform - Wastech, Network Analysis
    Giving Wastech the confidence that the decisions are the right ones.


Petrobras - Brazil

The Operations Research and Information Technology team of Petrobras services applications using best of breed technologies, in order to provide fast, reliable and intuitive decision support. 
  • Petrobras - MOVIGAS
    AIMMS supports offshore gas planning, helping managers to maximize Oil & Gas exploitation at Campos Basin, on Brazil’s southeast coast (20.8 million cubic meters of gas per day).


Shell Global Solutions International

Shell Global Solutions provides business and operational consultancy, technical services, and research and development expertise to the energy industry world-wide. Our aim is to help our customers raise their business performance. Combining leading-edge technology with extensive operating experience, we provide innovative, yet practical solutions, designed to add maximum value to our customer's operations. We sit at the interface between technology and business and understand the kind of challenges that our customers in industry face.


UniSoma Matemática para Produtividade - Brazil, AIMMS Service Partner
  • UniSoma - Aurora Alimentos, Integrated Animal Planning
    Comprising the chains of poultry, swine, industrialized and dairy products, and feed formulation, this system is a set of planning modules developed for Aurora Alimentos. Its solution architecture is based on optimization models implemented in AIMMS.
  • UniSoma - CPFL, Load Curve Estimation for Transformers
    UniSoma delivered to CPFL the Load Curve Estimation for Distribution Transformers through Micro Regional Typologies module, developed in AIMMS. This module is the heart of the system that aims to guarantee a complete environment for transformer load curves collection, storing, processing and analysis.
  • UniSoma - CST (Arcelor Mittal) - SIMAE
    SIMAE optimizes the daily energy balance regarding production capacities, utilities safety inventories, raw material buying contractual conditions, etc. The system is used to run complex analysis on optimal use (and/or selling) of internal process' by-products, the equipment maintenance scheduling, and machines setup scheduling.
  • UniSoma - CST (Arcelor Mittal) - SISCAF
    An integrated planning of raw material preparation, sintering, and operations at the blast furnaces. It determines the quantities of raw material inputs for the production of sinter and pig iron. It also calculates the fuel mix for the sintering plant and blast furnaces and required distribution of sinter among the blast furnaces.
  • UniSoma - CST (Arcelor Mittal) - Supply Chain Strategic Planning Optimizer
    Based on a MILP model and integrated to SAP APO (SNP Module of SAP), an AIMMS component was developed for CST´s Supply Chain Network Planning. This Optimizer will support the strategic decision process of obtaining the production mix optimization considering customer profitability as well the production and logistics capacities for CST and its subsidiary Vega do Sul.
  • UniSoma - CST (Arcelor Mittal) - Ábaco
    This new AIMMS-based system was developed for CST´s iron making department to help them to optimize its Brazilian Coal Supply Chain Planning. It basically involves simultaneous solving of 3 related sub-problems: the shipping scheduling, the coal blending planning for the coke plants and the coal storage planning.
  • UniSoma - Cenibra, Central Logistics System
    ABASEM integrates the daily scheduling plan for transportation from wood stands to mills, the stock policy for the pulp mill, and the daily chip production line supply scheduling. The model provides a solution that compromises between different and possibly conflicting objectives. Connectivity to SMAD – a legacy system at Cenibras forest area - allows for importing information like current stock, density, etc.
  • UniSoma - PAMDO, Optimized Density for Wood Supply Planning
    In a period of 4 months, UniSoma developed a wood transport and supply planning prototype system. Written in AIMMS, and based on a Mixed Integer Programming Model, the system was able to create transportation and production plans with significant reduction in wood density variation over time at each mill.
  • UniSoma - SCCPD, Load Curve and Demand Forecasting System
    UniSoma developed for Companhia Paulista de Força e Luz (CPFL), in partnership with Serviços Especializados (SEST) and RAM Computer Systems, a Load Curve and Demand Forecasting System. The optimization part is handled by AIMMS.
  • UniSoma - Votorantim Celulose e Papel - PLANFLOR
    PLANFLOR is a solution for optimized forest planning. Considering harvesting costs and productivity forecasting that depends on each region, the model prescribes the best management actions for the forest areas in next 30 years, ensuring wood supply for the plants and minimizing costs.
  • UniSoma - Votorantim Cimentos, Strategic Planning Optimizer
    To determine the correct business strategy for Votorantim Cimentos, a Strategic Planner was developed in AIMMS. The objective of the system is to allow Votorantim to evaluate initiatives of its investments over a long period of time (20 to 30 years) as well as optimizing the raw materials supply chain and the cement distribution plan.
  • UniSoma - Wirex Cable, Cutting Plan Optimization
    In early 2001, Wirex Cable hired UniSoma to develop and implement a decision support system to determine the cutting scheduling for cable coils, with the objective of improving the level of service in delivering orders from a demand portfolio and minimize raw material losses (generation of scrap).


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