Special Edition – RILA, Game On!!!

I know the early followers of this totally cool blog are anxiously waiting to read about all things Cloud at Solvoyo, but we are taking a brief intermission to get my take on the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Conference in sunny San Diego, CA. The retail supply chain problem is very complex and dynamic. …

Linear and Non-Linear, Single Application, No Way! … Way!

While I was a member of the Dell Worldwide Operational Strategy organization I met Dr. Koray Dogan who introduced me to i2’s Supply Chain Strategist. SCS is a traditional mixed integer program (MIP) used primarily for supply chain network optimization. In the SCS years we talked about things we wished we could do such as …

Wayne's World: Math Is Amazing

For those of us who catch the Operations Research (OR) bug the passion runs pretty deep. After you get through Hillier and Lieberman or Winston (another Wayne BTW, coincidence? I don’t think so) in Intro to OR you just can’t get enough. Some dudes hang out in the basement, rock out with their buds and …