OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT & OPTIMISATION

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

G20

 

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

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Associate Professor - HDR
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Full Professor

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