Revenue Management (RM) is a business discipline leveraging management science and information technology to drive bottom-line profitability. Holiday Retirement, the largest private owner and operator of independent living communities for seniors in the United States with over $1 billion annual r...

American Red Cross Uses Analytics-based Methods to Improve Blood Collection Operations - The American Red Cross, in partnership with researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, have developed a blood collection model to increase the amount of whole blood that can be processed into the b...

We guided the implementation of platform-based product development at Barco, a high-tech screen producing company. Although the concept of platforms is well known in automotive, its implementation is not straightforward. We developed several decision support models to analyze the value of standar...

The DICE Simulation Model Unlocks Significant Value for a Large Greenfield Mining Project - BHP Billiton’s greenfield potash mining project will establish a foundation for its entry into bulk fertilizer commodities. Our clean slate approach fully integrated a broad and complex scope of undergroun...

A Novel Movement Planning Algorithm for Dispatching Trains - General Electric (GE) has partnered with Norfolk Southern (NS) railroad to develop and implement a novel movement-planning algorithm to dispatch trains over a rail network. NS currently uses this algorithm to improve its average line of...

The Off-Hours Delivery Project in New York City - As part of the off-hours delivery (OHD) project, the team designed and implemented incentives to induce receivers to accept deliveries in the off-hours (7PM to 6AM). The ensuing change of the delivery times enable supply chains to switch to the of...