Service facility allocation – an optimization

In the bustling city of Rio de Janeiro, opening and operating a series of barbershops comes with a unique set of challenges, especially when operating on a tight budget for renovation and rental expenses. In this article, I am sharing…

Pyomo for quadratic assignment problem

No matter if it is the assignment of departments to empty rooms in a building, machines to manufacturing cells, factories to geographical regions, products to racks in a warehouse, sensors to devices, edge computers inside the internet of things network,…

Static facilities in supply chains

In this article, I propose a classification for static facilities in supply chains, i.e., those that are not mobile. Furthermore, as these facilities are static, their location becomes essential, and selecting a location is accompanied by strategic costs. Supply chains…

Monte-carlo simulation for warehouse allocation

In this article I present an exemplary application of monte-carlo simulation for warehouse allocation. Monte-carlo simulation is a very popular technique when it comes to risk assessment. In previous posts I have introduced implementations of monte-carlo simulations in Python and…

Prescriptive analytics for network design

One of the duties I frequently performed as an operations research analyst in consulting projects was optimizing companies’ supply chain network designs. A supply chain is a network that connects suppliers with customers to procure materials, transform them into final…