Optimization/Management Science

Strategic planning is crucial to the success of business initiatives and entire organizations. But how can you sort through the myriad of factors and decisions to identify the strategies that will produce the best results?

With SAS optimization solutions you gain the knowledge you need to answer the complex business questions that occur every day. You derive greater insights into the factors that affect your business and processes. You can make better decisions and produce optimal results.

SAS technologies for optimization and management science methods can optimally determine a wide range of business issues, including:

Resource allocation and management.
Production and inventory planning.
Product mix and blending.
Staffing allocations.
Distribution, routing, scheduling and traffic flow.
Supply chain management and optimization.
Capital budgeting, asset allocation and portfolio selection.
Identification of the best customer-offer-channel combinations given budgets and other constraints.

SAS enables you to more effectively manage projects to meet deadlines within resource limitations and create back-up plans to address unforeseen variations in resource availability. In short, your organization can optimally allocate all resources to achieve desired outcomes, on schedule, with more profitability, even under constantly changing conditions.

Our sophisticated mathematical programming solutions enable you to determine the best use of limited resources in order to achieve strategic objectives. Using mathematical optimization to balance goals against limitations, you can answer questions such as:

Is what we're trying to accomplish possible?
How are we doing now?
How can we do better?
What's the best we can do?
What happens if conditions change?

SAS management science solutions bring together essential modeling, optimization and scheduling capabilities in an integrated and adaptable environment. A wide array of mathematical optimization, project/resource management, simulation and related techniques enable you to build accurate, detailed models of your business or organization and paint an accurate picture of its current, future and potential performance.

No other vendor offers such a broad array of optimization and management science methods. Our capabilities delivered by SAS/ORŽ Software include:

Linear, integer, nonlinear and network programming.
Project management, resource management and scheduling.
Graphical display of Gantt charts and networks.
Simulation of queuing systems.
Decision analysis and decision tree display.
Bill of materials processing.

Within each area, a wealth of optional techniques and choices enable you to customize your models for maximum realism and usefulness. Moreover, since these solutions are fully integrated components of SAS, they can be combined to create hybrid solutions for problems that cross the traditional "problem type" boundaries.

Growing, evolving and improving constantly over the years, SAS optimization and management science solutions continue to prove their value. Many of these changes have come as the result of our ongoing dialogue and work with our customers, whom we regard as partners in expanding and enhancing our solutions' value.

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