If we talk about optimized planning, we generally distinguish between three planning horizons: operational planning, tactical planning, and strategic planning.
Let’s have a closer look at strategic planning and what it is about.

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.

Heuristics – is this just another buzzword? Why is it used so often when talking about optimization and what does it have to do with pizza? We explain what a heuristic is and how it works.