Preface
Today many organizations face challenges when developing a realistic plan or schedule that provides the best possible balance between customer service and revenue goals. Optimization technology has long been used to find the best solutions to complex planning and scheduling problems. A decision-support environment that enables the flexible exploration of all the trade-offs and sensitivities needs to provide the following capabilities:
•Flexibility to develop and compare realistic planning and scheduling scenarios
•Quality sensitivity analysis and explanations
•Collaborative planning and scenario sharing
•Decision recommendations
This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces you to the IBM ILOG® Optimization Decision Manager (ODM) Enterprise. ...