OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT & OPTIMISATION
Organise, control and improve the performance of goods and services production systems and supply chains in dynamic and uncertain environment.

Our expertise
RESOLUTION OF PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PROBLEM
- Optimisation, simulation and control of production operations
- Configuration of production lines
- Taking into account uncertainties
- Proposition of robust & stable solutions
- Taking into account economic, social, societal and environmental impacts
PROPOSITION OF DECISION-HELPING TOOLS ADAPTED AND DEDICATED TO CRISIS SITUATIONS
- Taking into account uncertainties in the decision process
- Proposition of flexible and resilient solutions
- Integration of the system real-time dynamics
- Proposition of predictive scenarios
- Treatment of large amount of data (Data Mining, Big Data, Digital Twin)
RESOLUTION OF LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAIN, TRANSPORT AND VEHICLE TOURS PROBLEMS
- Combination of machine learning and heuristics, hybridisation of centralised and distributed models
- Integration of constraints linked to products / patients
- Proposition of the most robust and stable solutions
- Integration of cooperation /collaboration of stakeholders
- Treatment of short-circuit and circular economy problems
- Integration of structural, decision, information et human dimensions
Our software tools
Ilog IBM Cplex, Gurobi Optimization, Mathematica Professional AnyLogic, FlexSim, Arena suite Anaconda3 (Python), Matlab ERP (SAP ECC, SAP S/4 HANA), Ortems, Incoplan Ecoinvent, OpenLCA, GABi
Axis leaders
Associate Professor - HDR
APPROACHES & METHODS
- Combinatory optimisation and operational research (Integer programming, matheuristique, metaheuristique), constraint-based, discrete optimization via continuous relaxation
- Discrete-events simulation, agent-based simulation
- Business Process Modelling, Life-Cycle Analysis
- Complex networks, topology, geometry, game theory, fuzzy logic
- Artificial Intelligence (clustering, machine learning)
- Multi-criteria, multi-objective decision helping
- Research-action : observation, case study, interview