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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:29:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | ILOG, the company behind the optimization engines in many vendors' planning and scheduling modules debuts its Optimization Decision Management System, allowing production planners and manufacturing workers to participate in building custom applications. |
| Keywords: | ILOG, CPLEX, planning and scheduling applications, optimization engine, ODMS, Optimization Decision Management System, OR expert, supply chain planning |
ILOG, a purveyor of supply chain optimization engines, this week unveiled a new software suite that aims to make the expertise of in-house supply chain planning and production personnel more central to the development of custom scheduling and planning applications. ILOG's Optimization Decision Management System (ODMS) bundles the company's core technology with new application modeling tools that ILOG said can be used for quick prototyping and development of custom planning and scheduling applications. ODMS includes ILOG CPLEX -- the optimization engine at the core of planning and scheduling modules offered by companies like SAP, Oracle, i2, and others -- in addition to the ILOG CP constraint programming engine and ILOG OPL Studio, a modeling environment that draws on application development tools such as ILOG ODM (Optimization Decision Manager). "It used to be that all [ILOG] had were the engines that could solve the problems, and a model development tool that could only be used by a person with a master's degree, minimum, in operations research," explained Jeff Kilbreth, ILOG's director of optimization product marketing, in an interview. Because of that constraint, Kilbreth said, ILOG's go-to-market was often as the optimization engine that informed the planning and scheduling modules of other vendors' supply chain applications. Manufacturers that could not solve their planning and scheduling challenges with those off-the-shelf applications often ended up purchasing ILOG's optimization engines, which operations research (OR) experts would turn into a custom application. [Click to continue] |
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