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LocalSolver sponsors ROADEF 2022 December 13, 2021
The annual conference of the French Operations Research and Decision Support Society, namely ROADEF, will be held in Lyon on February 23-25, 2022. LocalSolver is glad to sponsor ROADEF 2022. Please meet us at our booth to discover LocalSolver 11.0 new features and applications. This is also the occasion to meet our team of Optimization Scientists and…
How Hexaly solves scheduling problems with changeover times for Ouest-France November 15, 2021
Ouest-France is a daily French newspaper that emphasizes both local and national news. The paper is produced in 50 different editions covering many departments in the West of France. With 2.5 million daily readers, it is the most-read francophone newspaper globally. Each edition of Ouest-France includes specific pages for its region, department, and municipalities concerned…
How Hexaly solves CLAI’s food box packing optimization problem in seconds October 18, 2021
Cooperativa Lavoratori Agricoli Imolesi (€300M in revenue, 500 employees), namely CLAI, is an Italian agri-food cooperative with two plants producing fresh meats and salami. Logistics & Automation Consulting (LAC), a consulting and software company specializing in solving supply chain optimization problems, has developed an optimization solution for CLAI to optimize the packing of food products…
Why Colas chose Hexaly to develop their Covid-19 Resilience Simulator September 20, 2021
Colas is a world leader in the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure, including roads, railways, airports, ports, and urban developments. Colas operates in over 50 countries on five continents. In 2004, Portsmouth City Council (UK) awarded Ensign, a Colas subsidiary, a pathfinder 25-year private finance initiative (PFI) contract to manage its highway network. The…
How Hexaly efficiently solves network design problems for Bouygues Telecom August 23, 2021
Bouygues Telecom is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider, and IPTV company ($7.3 billion in annual revenue, 5,500 employees). For many years, Bouygues Telecom has used the expertise of Hexaly to develop custom software solutions for revenue management, data analysis, marketing operation planning, and network design. Bouygues Telecom’s network design problem The network of…
How Hexaly solves TV media planning problems with millions of variables for TF1 July 12, 2021
TF1 is a major media group in Europe and the leading TV group in France, with a 20% audience share and 30% of the advertising market. The company generated €2 billion in sales in 2020, mainly thanks to media planning. TF1 PUB is the group’s advertising agency, selling time to advertisers. For example, TF1 PUB…
LocalSolver at VivaTech 2021 April 12, 2021
It is an honor for LocalSolver to be invited by our client Air Liquide to the 5th edition of VivaTech, June 16-19, 2021, Europe’s biggest startup and tech event. Come to discover how LocalSolver solves large-scale Inventory Routing Problems in minutes, making bulk gas transportation both greener and cheaper. To discover more clients and user stories, please look at our customers‘…
How Hexaly solves Renault Group’s workspace allocation problem in seconds January 4, 2021
Renault Group is a French multinational automobile manufacturer and one of the largest automakers in the world. They have been using Hexaly Optimizer since 2016 to solve their various optimization problems. In this case, Renault’s Operations Research department sought to optimize workspace allocation problems with Hexaly. Renault’s workspace allocation problem To optimize the organization of its…
Why Addinsoft chose Hexaly as their global optimization solver for Microsoft Excel December 21, 2020
Addinsoft chose Hexaly to launch their new product XLOPTIM, a Microsoft Excel add-in for mathematical optimization and operations research. Addinsoft searched for a global optimization solver able to support all nonlinear and logical Excel functions while being fast and scalable: Hexaly won the benchmark. For more information on this solver for Microsoft Excel, please have a…