Best buyer

• Logistics, scheduling, staffing, pricing, or allocation teams with an LP/MIP model producing suspicious recommendations

Client’s question

Does our optimization model actually represent our business problem?

Client’s input limits

• The objective and up to 15 constraints, as written (math, solver file excerpt, or code)

• Business requirements description, max 750 words

• One counterintuitive or unacceptable solution the model produced

Deliverables

Two-page memo

• whether the objective matches the real goal
• missing or redundant constraints
• wrong constraint senses or signs
• hidden assumptions 
• an explanation of why the odd solution occurs

Five small test instances (XLSX)

• tiny cases with the expected feasible/infeasible/optimal behavior, so the client can validate the formulation without big data

30-minute debrief

Exclusions

• No solving of production instances
• No solver tuning
• No rewrite of implementation code

Pricing

• 1,500 USD (delivery within 7 days)
• 2,500 USD (delivery within 5 days)
• 3,500 USD (delivery within 3 days)

Contact

To initiate the purchase or ask questions, please contact me.