Life – and planning in particular – would be so much easier if we knew in advance what was going to happen in the future. Of course, that’s not possible. But with predictive analytics, we come pretty close, at least for our planning questions.

To the untrained eye, it is not immediately obvious whether using a solver is an easy step or impossible. Let’s take a look at problem complexity, scalability to our problem size.

Most companies are already aware of the potential for improvement. But how can optimization potential be identified and quantified? This is where optimization comes in and helps to replace gut feeling with numbers.