OnTheMark: Integrated Stochastic Resource Planning of Human Capital Supply Chains (IBM) - We present a suite of innovative operations research models and methods that supports the effective and efficient management and planning of human capital supply chains and that has been developed and implem...

A Short-Range Scheduling Model for Blockbuster's Order Processing Operation - We describe the creation and implementation of a Mixed Integer Programming model to schedule Blockbuster's short-range order processing operations. This application, in daily use since January 2007, has resulted in cost...

Marketing Optimization in Retail Banking (GE) - We address the problem of making optimal product offers to customers of a retail bank. This was done using techniques such as Markov chains, genetic algorithms, mathematical programming, and design of experiments. The challenges involved were large...

Universal Tool for Vaccine Scheduling: Applications for Children and Adults (Georgia Tech and CDC) - Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the CDC, developed decision support tools for creating optimized catch-up immunization schedules for four target groups: children through age...

Kimberly-Clark Latin America Builds an Optimal Scheduling System - We present an optimization-based solution for lot-sizing and scheduling with sequence-dependent setups at Kimberly-Clark Latin America. The formulation weighs inventory, set-up and backorder costs leading to a large MIP. We develo...