This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. In artificial intelligence (AI), a heuristic is a problem-solving approach that employs practical, experience-based strategies to find ...

IBM uses operations research techniques to plan its enterprise semiconductor supply chain. The scale and complexity of this planning problem make developing robust supply chain optimization tools a ...

This paper describes a greedy heuristic for a class of combinatorial optimization problems; a central feature of the method being a look-ahead capability. The power of the heuristic is demonstrated ...

Optimization technology is an important part of analytics. Optimization allows you to mathematically “narrow your choices the very best when there are virtually innumerable feasible options and ...

Supply chain planning leaders face an increasingly complex landscape of AI technologies, where the wrong choice can undermine automation goals and planning quality. This white paper provides a ...