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Overview of Innovative Scheduling

Ravindra K. Ahuja
President, Innovative Scheduling
ravi@InnovativeScheduling.com
(352) 870-8401
Innovative Scheduling Overview
 We develop decision support systems for logistics and transportation
companies.

 Our core expertise:


– How to route goods over a transportation network at minimum cost while
meeting the desired service quality.

 Our systems optimize the use of resources. They reduce operating costs
and improve asset utilization.

 We accomplish this by embedding latest optimization techniques in our


systems and providing services to use these products.
– Cutting-edge optimization distinguishes us from other vendors.
– We bundle services with products to create value.

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Innovative Scheduling: Foundations
 The company has strong technical foundations. The company was
founded by Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja in 2000, an established academician:
– Professor of Industrial Eng. at University of Florida since 1998.
– Teaching and research at MIT, Cambridge for 12 years.
– Coauthor of three books and numerous research papers and book chapters.
– Has received coveted prizes for research in optimization.

 The company conducts research in different areas of transportation and


brings the fruits of this research to practice.

 The company team members include practitioners, consultants,


researchers and programmers with background in:
– Transportation
– Optimization
– Computer Science

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A Highly Qualified Technical Team
❖ President & CEO ❖ Systems Engineers
– Ravindra K. Ahuja, Ph.D. (Operation Research) – Mehmet Onal, Ph.D. (OR)
– Rahul Razdan, M.S. (OR)
❖ Asst. Vice Presidents – Vishnu Arcot, M.S. (OR)
– Krishna C. Jha, Ph.D. (OR) – Amit Agarwal, M.S. (OR)

❖ Directors – Research & Development ❖ Software Engineers


– Arvind Kumar, Ph.D. (OR) – Artak Koshtoyan, Ph.D. (CS)
– Wei Huang, Ph.D. (OR), – Mihran Grigoryan, Ph.D. (CS)
– Artyom Nahapetyan, Ph.D. (OR) – Artur Muradyan, M.S. (CS)

❖ Project Managers ❖ Senior Consultants


– Sapon Tanachaiwiwat, Ph.D. (Computer Science) – Prof. James B. Orin (MIT)
– Zongyu Zhang, M.S. (CS) – Prof. Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)
– Dr. Asok Chaudhuri (Heritage)
❖ Senior Software Engineers – Dr. Bill Nulty (Scientific Logistics)
– Florin Rusu, Ph. D. (CS) – Mr. Deepak Mittal (Fidelity Invest.)
– Heping Gao, Ph.D. (CS) – Mr. Ananth Raman (Tiny Matter)
– Arsen Javadyan, Ph. D. (CS)
– Tigran Grigoryan, Ph.D. (CS) ❖ Administration & Marketing
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Company’s Focus
 Most of the complex scheduling
problems arising in transportation
What do we do?
and logistics are still unsolved.
Build custom
 We specialize in developing decision
support
applications for scheduling systems
problems arising in planning and
real-time operations.

 Different modes of transportation: Develop Provide


software consulting
– Railroads products, services
– Trucking license, and using our
support them products
– Airlines
– Shipping Lines
– Barge Lines
– Multi-modal Transportation

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Our Expertise

❖ Our areas of expertise include:

Transportation & Logistics Interface Development


Railroads, Trucking, Airlines, Barge Lines, Java, .NET
Shipping Lines

Optimization Techniques Desktop Applications


Access, Excel

Databases Web-based Applications


.NET
SQL Server, Oracle, Access

Programming Web-Mapping Applications


C++, C#, Java, ASP.NET, .NET ESRI, .NET

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Standard Features of Our Systems

 Data sanity checking, cleaning and


repair

 Cutting-edge optimization

 Sufficient user control

 Fast response times

 Detailed solution analysis

 Friendly interfaces with reports,


charts, and maps

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Our Approach to Optimization
 We have found that optimization is hard to make it work in practice and
most companies do not use optimization techniques.

 Real-life business processes are difficult to optimize.


– Lack of optimization techniques which model real-world well.
– Lack of manpower expertise to use these techniques well.
– Constant changes to the business processes.

 Our approach:
– Provide the best optimization techniques.
– Provide the expertise to use these techniques.
– Improve techniques and adapt them to meet the changing business needs.

 In other words, we lease you a sophisticated plane and give you


experienced pilots. All you do is to ride the plane.

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Our Value Proposition
 We treat each client as unique and special. We approach each project
individually to meet your specific needs and requirements and are flexible
in how we form our business relationship with you.

 We are guided by three core principles in our business relationship with


you:
– Minimize your risk
– Maximize the return on your investment
– Create quick value for you to garner management support

 We guarantee a minimum return of 500% on your


investment on us. That is, for every $1 you give us, we
will guarantee a minimum of $5 reduction in your
measurable operational costs.

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Rapid Development Environment

 We have a large collection of models, algorithms, optimization and simulation


engines that have been developed for diverse applications. We can develop
algorithms to solve your complex optimization problems quickly.

 We have a platform to package our algorithms into web-based decision


support systems in a rapid development mode.

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Our Products
 We have developed several software products to solve complex
railroad planning and scheduling problems. These products are in
use at several Class I railroads.

 We are also adapting our technology for other modes of


transportation and developing software products for trucking lines.

 We have developed a software product for the LTL (Less-Than-


Truckload) Linehaul Schedule Optimization and additional products
will be forthcoming.

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Consulting Services
 We also offer consulting services to companies to improve their operations
and service, reduce operating costs, increase asset utilization, and optimize
network efficiency.

 Sample consulting services:


– Update service design plans to reduce operating costs
– Assess the impact of network changes on costs
– Impact of operational policies on cost and service quality
– Impact of different fleet mixes on the fleet cost
– Calculate the return-on-investment (ROI) for large infrastructure projects

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Selected Projects
❖ CSX Transportation
– Optimize operating plans
– Optimize locomotive operations

❖ BNSF Railway
– Optimize blocking and train scheduling costs

❖ Norfolk Southern
– Optimize blocking costs

 Pacer
– Empty container distribution system

 United Airlines
– Fleet assignment models

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Selected Projects (contd.)
❖ Large Package Delivery Company
– Network planning system prototype

 LTL Trucking Companies


– Pilot studies to optimize network and optimize linehaul schedules

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