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December 12, 2024

Enhancing Legislative Proposal Analysis for a Public Institution

Developing a generalizable approach to improve warehouse efficiency

How to develop a methodology based on a simulation-optimization approach capable of optimizing several warehouses with varying layouts

Optimizing CUF Hospitals Inventory Management

A partnership to optimize operations and service delivery in the healthcare sector

CRM data quality improvement through automated duplicate detection

Leveraging Machine Learning for streamlined database integrity

Experience-based pricing optimization to increase box office in a movie theater chain

Applying experience design to optimize pricing in the context of highly-volatile demand

Setting the tone for a personalization strategy in the banking sector

Assessing maturity and defining a strategic roadmap for Data & Analytics in mass-market retail banking

Overcoming PPE inventory management and supply chain constraints in a pandemic scenario

Increase flexibility and reduce planning time for the supply of personal protective equipment within a network of stores and commercial spaces

Augmenting startups’ deal sourcing process

A venture capital company augmented its deal sourcing process and perform an agile, smart screening of startups

Reducing waiting times in pharmaceutical retail operations

An analytical approach to improve pharmaceutical retail operations, reducing waiting lines, and improving customer satisfaction

Tackling employee turnover at brick-and-mortar retailers

An analytical-driven approach to employee compensation design aimed at reducing voluntary turnover

Revamping inventory management ecosystem to maximize sustainable gains

Structural improvements on the inventory management processes

Optimizing a telecommunications company’s electricity tariff

An optimization tool to reduce energy costs by simultaneously optimizing tariffs and battery usage

Ensuring the delivery of excellence through the optimization of a parcel network

Planning for long-term business growth and efficiency

Markdown analytics to reduce food waste at grocery stores

A case study on improving pricing strategies

Tax and pricing strategy optimization model for tobacco industry

Leveraging genetic algorithms to enhance the strategic decision-making process

Improving markdown pricing for end-of-life products in consumer electronics

Using machine learning to support markdown decisions

Using an analytical approach for designing a team incentive plan

How developing a set of indicators and targets can leverage productivity, work quality, and talent retention

Building a city performance dashboard for actionable insights

Using advanced analytics in the public sector

Data-driven sales forecasting in consumer goods production

A case study in improving accuracy and efficiency through analytical planning methods

Trade promotions planning at Unilever FIMA

How to review promotional planning activities to increase overall efficiency

Implementing an analytics-driven raw material purchasing process at a packaging industry

An holistic decision support system to enable the acquisition of raw materials

Improving customer experience by making in-store purchases obsolete

Personalized lists

Evaluating consumption patterns across one million outlets

Maximizing FMCG profitability by tailoring outlet level assortment

Redefining a retailer’s sales incentives plan through an analytical perspective

How can sales incentives be leveraged to boost sales, customer satisfaction, and employee retention

Getting to know and expand the audience of a concert hall

How can data-driven decisions help in building an audience beyond committed melomaniacs?

Successfully deploy a complex tool in a challenging environment

By bridging the gap between technical and business expertise was possible to adapt the new forecasting tool.

Modelling customers’ product preferences towards an optimized store assortment

Estimate customers’ preferences for product’s attributes to an effective assortment planning decision-making process.

Optimizing a promotional leaflet distribution strategy

The main goals were to increase store traffic and conversion rates.

Finding where to open the next retail store?

It takes just 2 minutes to analyze a new store location.

Optimizing production planning at a consumer goods company

The planning team is now able to rapidly respond to demand fluctuations.

Guaranteeing the sustainability of the supply-chain by ensuring fair compensation to small-scale carriers

A project to review the carriers’ compensation policy.

Transition from budget-based planning towards one-year rolling horizon approach

How to increase overall competition

Estimating worldwide adoption potential for innovative tobacco products

Building a market model that compile all information sources into reliable historical demand data.

Supporting sales and marketing strategic planning with a market simulation model

Analytical models to assist the strategic decision-making process

Analytics for customer experience: a use case in billing ops

This model enables a targeted validation, making the bill review team twice as productive

Leveraging the printing plant production scheduling

The effort of lithography employees in scheduling was reduced

Using game theory to optimize strategic pricing decisions at a consumer goods company

Using analytic methods to best leverage the available consumer and market data

Applying analytics to improve people planning in a retail chain

The company lacked the analytical edge to take people planning to the next level.

Process redesign to enable analytical opportunities in a digital supply chain transformation

A roadmap to support the change and provide guidance to the company.

Increasing the sales volume performed by a call center operation without eroding customer loyalty

The pilot results showed a 23% increase in commercial activity.

An operations digital twin to hedge against Brexit

A detailed Digital Twin of a factory

Client mailing optimization for a retail company

An agile scenario to improve targeting and tailor the end-user experience

Revamping the operations planning of an entire plant

Improve a printing unit from a leading manufacture company

Assortment & space management for an electronics retailer

Analytical-driven processes for assortment and space management

Predicting long-term O&M costs for wind farms and reliability of its parts

Developing a system that dynamically estimates the reliability of different wind turbine generator

Planning tool for an e-commerce distribution operation

A simulation tool to test distinct scenarios and find potential improvements

Integrated planning of production and distribution in a glass container producing company

How to foresee and plan the future operations

Stock reduction in a pharmaceutical wholesaler

Testing new inventory strategies and policies

Increasing sales through the promotion of freshness on the shelves

Optimizing inventory management of perishable products

Reshaping the routing operation and planning of a third party logistics provider

Planning international distribution activities

Home Delivery: Reducing the distribution costs of large formats

Finding the best network configuration

Unifying an electronic retailer logistics flow from suppliers to stores

Increase flexibility, reduce delivery times and improve service level

Improving the definition of ship-pack quantities for a large food retailer

Steer the Case Pack towards the optimum

Targeting marketing for a telco company

Optimizing the best offer for each client

Warehouse operations using a digital twin

A model to aid decision making

Restructure of a marketing department

How to capture greater value from each customer

Integrated logistics planning on a telco retailer

Generating a fully customized decision support system.

Optimizing Joint Portfolio Planning and Production Strategy for a Wood-based Panels Producer

Developing a simulation-optimization solution to built on top of a mixed-integer linear programming model