# Applied Optimization and Simulation

Empowering you with advanced mathematical technologies to enhance decision-making, maximize business value, save time and boost revenue. We provide outcomes not deliverables.

## Industries we serve

Combining decades of experience across the public and private sectors, across four key industries: biopharmaceuticals, energy, manufacturing, and consumer products & goods/retail, the Applied Optimization and Simulation team has developed a portfolio of flexible solutions for our clients.

1. **Biopharmaceutical**
2. **Energy**
3. **Manufacturing**
4. **CPG + Retail**

### Offerings across focus industries
- [Supply Chain & Logistics](/content/services/optimization-and-simulation#w-tabs-1-data-w-pane-0/index.html)
- [Scheduling](/content/services/optimization-and-simulation#w-tabs-1-data-w-pane-1/index.html)
- [Energy Management](/content/services/optimization-and-simulation#w-tabs-1-data-w-pane-2/index.html)
- [Tool & Technology Evaluation](/content/services/optimization-and-simulation#w-tabs-1-data-w-pane-3/index.html)

## Supply Chain & Logistics

### WIN Optimization
1. **Warehouse optimization**  
   Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your warehouse’s location, layout, and operations to meet business needs and maintain cost-effectiveness.
2. **Inventory optimization**  
   Right-size and customize standard supply chain toolsets to increase customer satisfaction and enable efficient inventory management.
3. **Network optimization**  
   Optimize product flow and efficiently utilize transport resources to increase resilience of your customer-centric supply chain.

### Scheduling
1. **Workforce scheduling**  
   Efficient workforce utilization to generate fair, predictable and cost-effective employee schedules that meet changing business requirements.
2. **Production scheduling**  
   Efficient resource and inventory utilization to increase productivity and profitability and maximize throughput.

### Energy Management
1. **Water logistics optimization**  
   Promote resource sharing and optimize freshwater hauling to enhance sustainable oil and gas production.
2. **Energy utilization optimization**  
   Identify pathways for reductions in utility/fuel consumption in manufacturing processes and logistics operations.
3. **Sustainability & GHG reduction**  
   Reduce Greenhouse Gases in manufacturing processes and throughout your supply chain network to capture credits and meet business needs.

### Tool & Technology Evaluation
1. **Use case identification**  
   Identify and define opportunities to apply mathematical optimization in your organization to drive maximum business value with limited time and resources.
2. **POC development**  
   Quickly validate use cases to ensure their business viability, feasibility, and potential impact.
3. **Opt ops**  
   Automate testing, deploying and monitoring to ensure scalable and robust performance to drive long-term trust and value with optimization models.

## Proven Track Record
### History of solving some of the toughest and business-critical challenges for our clients
- **10-100x** Speed ups over manual/existing processes
- **$10m** Increase in annual throughput for a biopharma client
- **5-10%** Reduction in logistics cost for a freight operator
- **25%** Increase in productivity for a steel plant

## Meet the expert team
### Our team of optimization and simulation experts is passionate about helping our clients solve their most difficult problems.

- [Yash Puranik](/content/team/yash-puranik/index.html) - Director of Decision Science, United States
- [Juan Morinelli](/content/team/juan-morinelli/index.html) - Principal Data Scientist, United States
- [Jay Foraker](/content/team/jay-foraker/index.html) - Principal Data Scientist, United States
- [William Wirono](/content/team/william-wirono/index.html) - Senior Data Scientist, United Kingdom
- [Simon Chow](/content/team/simon-chow/index.html) - Principal Data Scientist, United States
- [Christa Margossian](/content/team/christa-margossian/index.html) - Head of Decision Sciences, United States

## Explore our customer success stories
- [**How Aimpoint Digital Increased Throughput and Reduced Scheduling Time**](/content/case-studies/how-aimpoint-digital-increased-throughput-and-reduced-scheduling-time/index.html)
- [**Supply Chain Optimization for Efficient Inventory Management**](/content/case-studies/supply-chain-optimization-inventory-management/index.html)
- [**Achieving Faster Resource Optimization and $1.5M in Annualized Savings**](/content/case-studies/resource-optimization-manufacturing-gurobi/index.html)
- [**Supply Chain Logistics for Agriculture Supply Chain**](/content/case-studies/supply-chain-logistics-for-agriculture-supply-chain/index.html)
- [**Container Assignments for Global Shipping Company**](/content/case-studies/container-assignments-for-global-shipping-company/index.html)
- [**Optimizing Production Schedules for Global Steel Manufacturing Company**](/content/case-studies/optimizing-steel-production-schedules/index.html)

## Insights from the experts at Aimpoint Digital
### Optimizing your solutions
- Dedicated expert team committed to solving practical problems
- Leadership team with PhD level expertise
- Solution development across commercial and open-source solvers and packages
- Deep industry experience across manufacturing, energy, biopharma and CPG industries
- Collaborative approach with Aimpoint’s Data Analytics, Data Infrastructure and Data Engineering teams – ensuring end-to-end solutions are developed and delivered by the same team for a seamless client experience
- Flexible engagement options to fit your specific needs
- Emphasis on productionization and long-term value generation.