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.

“What would actually happen if…?” – We have certainly all asked ourselves this question not only once. For planning problems it has a very special relevance and with What-If Scenarios we find the answer.

Sometimes optimization specialists combine different existing techniques to tackle a new type of problem. This is the case for flow network analysis and the facility location problem by combining them to flow location networks. Let’s see how that works and what can be solved this way.