Quintiq solving world’s most complex planning & scheduling puzzles

Kevin Carlyon Uri Schlafrig

Sr. Sales Executive Sr. Business Consultant

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Agenda

1 Quintiq’s vision on solving world’s most complex planning puzzles

2 Quintiq demo showing a common workforce planning challenge

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 Quintiq’s vision on solving world’s
most complex planning
puzzles

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Quintiq founding vision

Workforce Production Transportation

One technology
for all your
planning puzzles

Customers
that use
Quintiq

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What type of airport planning puzzles do we solve?

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What makes airport planning puzzles so complex?

Safety regulations SLAs Fluctuating

traffic volumes

Delays Daily peaks in Workforce

demand agreements

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

How many planning possibilities?

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

3,628,800

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

Take the Fastest Computer

On the planet

• IBM Sequoia clocking in at 16.32 petaflops.

• How long does a brute force approach take ?

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

That would actually take 0.00000000002 seconds

[under previously explained totally unrealistic assumptions]

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A bit more complex example of a planning puzzle

Knowing this, how long do you think

it would take for 25 and 32 people
respectively?

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A bit more complex example of a planning puzzle

25 People = 1 year

6.2 * 10^23 solutions

32 People = 16 billion years

8.2 * 10^33 solutions

16 billion years is
3 times
the age of the earth
(4.59 billion years)

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The power of world-class optimization

Real results

Transavia
Quintiq Improved interface
usage by
R&D
10%
Optimization
Optimization Optimization
technology Center technology KLM
Catering staff cost
reduction by
Experience& Experience&
knowledge knowledge 15%
feedback
LSG Skychefs
vans reduced by

35%
Benchmarks G4S guarding
Performance
Logistics, Workforce, Production
Improved employee
Utilization by

5% – 20% improvement 20%

122 world records for nearly every customer

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The building blocks we use to solve your planning puzzle

Sequence
Planning

Propagator

Algorithms
Optimization

Integration

Optimization
Metal &
Manufacturing

Workforce

Flexible Logistics
Interface
Assignment
Planning

Time Logic

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 Quintiq demo showing a common
workforce planning challenge

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Supporting all planning decisions in one solution

Strategic planning
(Yearly/years ahead)

Tactical planning
(Monthly/months ahead)

Operational planning
(Weekly/days ahead)

Execution
(Daily/hours ahead)

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Demo

Shift Manage
Staff Task
requirements last- minute
planning scheduling
creation changes

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Summary

Single integrated Empowers planners to Includes algorithms to

solution across the quickly balance optimize KPIs and
entire value chain and different goals through propagate the effect
all time horizons. visualization, of decisions.
collaboration and
interaction.

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