How Newton.Vaureal Consulting uses Hexaly to deliver operational supply chain optimization
About Newton.Vaureal Consulting
Newton.Vaureal Consulting is a French consulting firm specializing in supply chain strategy and operations. Since 2020, the company has relied on Hexaly to solve increasingly complex optimization problems for its customers. What began with strategic logistics studies has evolved into a broad range of operational decision-support applications integrated into the firm’s consulting services.
Today, Hexaly is used across many Newton.Vaureal Consulting projects, helping consultants build optimization models that support both long-term network design and day-to-day operational decisions.
Hexaly has fundamentally changed the way we deliver supply chain optimization. What started as a tool for strategic studies has become a core technology in many of our operational solutions. Today, our consultants and our customers use it to solve increasingly complex business problems.
From network optimization to operational decision making
Newton.Vaureal Consulting first adopted Hexaly to solve classical supply chain optimization problems, including warehouse location, logistics footprint optimization, and transportation network design.
Over time, customer needs have evolved. Strategic studies were no longer sufficient. Companies wanted optimization models that could support recurring operational decisions while accounting for a growing number of business constraints.
With Hexaly, Newton.Vaureal Consulting significantly extended its optimization capabilities. By combining next-generation branch-and-bound techniques, automatic branch-cut-price, and other advanced exact optimization methods with a flexible modeling approach, Hexaly enabled consultants to develop applications for increasingly operational use cases while maintaining high-quality solutions.
Optimizing product assortment under business constraints
One of the firm’s most frequent applications is product assortment optimization.
Newton.Vaureal Consulting helps customers determine the optimal assortment to stock by selecting both the right product breadth and inventory depth. The optimization model evaluates numerous business constraints, including warehouse capacity, product location, marketing policies, replenishment frequency, and inventory rules.
Rather than relying on manual analysis or heuristics, consultants leverage Hexaly’s enriched mixed-integer programming methods to compute optimal decisions that balance product availability and inventory investment.
According to Newton.Vaureal Consulting, these projects have consistently improved inventory quality while reducing working capital requirements and maintaining high service levels.
Maximizing revenue from existing inventory
Another optimization model focuses on maximizing the value created from existing inventory.
In one project for an electronics equipment manufacturer facing component shortages, the customer owned enough inventory to manufacture multiple product families but lacked several critical components.
Newton.Vaureal Consulting developed an optimization model with Hexaly to determine which products to manufacture to maximize revenue while minimizing additional component purchases.
The resulting optimal production plan relied on approximately 90% existing inventory, allowing the customer to reduce procurement needs, decrease excess stock, accelerate time to market, and prioritize the production of the highest-value products.
Instead of maximizing production volume alone, the consultants relied on Hexaly to identify the best tradeoff between revenue, purchasing costs, and delivery time.
From consulting studies to embedded optimization
Over the past years, Hexaly has become more than a tool used internally by consultants.
Newton.Vaureal Consulting now integrates optimization directly into its decision-support solutions. Customers can interact with optimization models themselves by modifying input data, adjusting business constraints, and evaluating alternative scenarios without rebuilding the models.
This evolution has also changed the firm’s consulting approach. Rather than delivering one-time strategic studies, Newton.Vaureal Consulting now performs recurring optimization projects throughout the year. Inventory optimization models, for example, are executed on a quarterly basis to support continuous operational planning.
Hexaly is fully integrated into the firm’s internally developed applications as well as AI-powered solutions, providing customers with a mathematical optimization engine that transforms business data into optimal decisions.
A long-term technology partnership
After years of collaboration, Hexaly has become a core technology within Newton.Vaureal Consulting’s supply chain optimization practice.
From logistics network design to inventory optimization and production planning, the solver enables consultants to model complex business constraints, solve large-scale optimization problems to global optimality, and deliver practical decision-support tools that customers can use directly.
As optimization becomes increasingly operational and data-driven, Newton.Vaureal Consulting continues to rely on Hexaly to build robust optimization applications that extend well beyond traditional MIP workflows.
