Analytics Software Engineer (m/f/x)

Sound interesting? Here’s what you’ll be doing with us: OPTANO is our platform for user-friendly applications. Many new ideas for visualization, process support, data storage, and faster calculations are still waiting to be implemented, and we need your help to make that happen. As an Analytics Software Engineer (m/f/d), you’ll work alongside experienced colleagues to further develop the OPTANO applications and design […]
Analytics Consultant (m/f/x)

Sound interesting? Here’s what you’ll be doing with us: As an Analytics Consultant (m/f/d), you’ll take on responsibility for individual software projects in which mathematical optimization is at the heart of the solution. You’ll work closely with clients, consultants, OR specialists, and software developers to help turn complex planning and decision-making problems into practical software solutions. Your responsibilities will include […]
Modeling Consultant (m/f/x)

Sound interesting? Here’s what you’ll be doing with us: OPTANO is our platform for user-friendly applications. Optimization projects based on OPTANO are waiting to be implemented for our clients, and we need your help to make that happen. As a Modeling Consultant (m/f/d), you’ll solve specific optimization challenges for our clients. You’re an expert in optimization software, apply it together with our clients, and conduct analyses for […]
Insights Session: Smart Production Planning for the Chemical Industry

Optimize your production planning for the chemical industry. Join our Insight Session to learn how tactical decisions regarding production sites and capacity can help reduce costs and manage complex production networks more efficiently (available in English only).
Insights: Campaign and sequence planning in chemistry

A good production plan is not enough in the chemical industry. Only when tanks, materials, changeovers and priorities fit together can a resilient process be created. This article shows why campaign and sequence planning is a decisive lever and how mathematical optimization helps to resolve conflicting objectives.
Insights: Replanning in the event of disruptions in chemical production planning

How do chemical plants react to raw material shortages, energy problems and logistics disruptions? The article shows why replanning in chemical production planning quickly becomes a complex decision-making problem - and how mathematical optimization helps to find reliable alternatives under real restrictions.
Insights: New US tariff plans for the pharmaceutical industry

The new US tariff plans for pharmaceuticals not only affect costs, but entire supply chains. The article shows what this means for pharmaceutical companies in Europe and their planning.
Insights: Inventory and production planning in the chemical industry

How chemical companies can better balance service, inventory and production and why Excel has its limits when it comes to integrated inventory and production planning.
Insights: Production allocation in chemicals and pharmaceuticals

Why multi-site planning in chemicals and pharmaceuticals is more than just shifting quantities and why Excel reaches its limits when it comes to cross-plant production decisions.
Interview: Excel works ... until it doesn't

Excel is still the central tool for planning in many companies. However, with increasing complexity, it is increasingly reaching its limits. In this interview, we talk about how to recognize this, why „working“ is not the same as „optimal“ and how planning is changing fundamentally today.