On Wednesday the 26th of October we held an online masterclass in association with the Insight Centre, on the topic of the Optimisation of Logistics. Helmut Simonis led the masterclass in demonstrating how optimization is required at every level of logistics management, from managing global container flows to packing of items for space saving transport. After a general overview, we took a look at three case studies:

transportation optimization with conflicting objectives

service visit re-optimization due to disruptions

supplier selection as a multi-criteria optimization problem

based on recent projects at the Insight Centre in collaboration with different industry partners.