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…
In a several other posts on Google’s ortools module in Python I have already solved the linear optimization problem stated below. The problem is a continuous problem as all optimization variables are from a continuous solution space. I could think…
The assignment problem is a classic problem in linear program. If, for example, you have n jobs that need to be manufactured during the upcoming shift (in a manufacturing plant) and you have m machines to produce these tasks, then you want…