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Overview

Leading companies across numerous industries use Gurobi’s mathematical optimization solver – in a wide variety of applications – to optimize their supply chain planning, decision making, and operations and keep supply and demand in balance.

With mathematical optimization, you can:

  • Attain visibility and control over your end-to-end supply chain network.
  • React and respond rapidly and effectively to changing conditions and disruptions across your supply chain.
  • Make dynamic, data-driven decisions that optimize your company’s efficiency and profitability.
  • Achieve your business goals by balancing cost and service-level tradeoffs – simultaneously satisfying customer demand and spurring bottom-line growth.
  • Transform your supply chain from a source of costs into a source of competitive advantage.

The Solver That Does More

Gurobi delivers blazing speeds and advanced features—backed by brilliant innovators and expert support.

  • Unmatched Performance
  • Continuous Innovation
  • Responsive, Expert Support
  • Unmatched Performance
  • Continuous Innovation
  • Responsive, Expert Support
  • Gurobi Optimizer Delivers Unmatched Performance

    Unmatched Performance

    Public benchmarks consistently show that Gurobi finds both feasible and proven optimal solutions faster than competing solvers. With our powerful MIP algorithm, you can add complexity to your model to better represent the real world, and still solve your model within the available time.

    • The performance gap grows as model size and difficulty increase.
    • Gurobi has a history of making continual improvements across a range of problem types, with a more than 75x speedup on MILP since version 1.1.
    • Gurobi is tuned to optimize performance over a wide range of instances.
    • Gurobi is tested thoroughly for numerical stability and correctness using an internal library of over 10,000 models from industry and academia.
     

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  • Gurobi Optimizer Delivers Continuous Innovation

    Continuous Innovation

    Our development team includes the brightest minds in decision-intelligence technology--and they're continually raising the bar in terms of solver speed and functionality.

    • Our code is fundamentally parallel—not sequential code that was parallelized—so you can make the most of parallelism and run sequentially.
    • We go beyond cutting-edge MIP cutting planes, with new classes of cuts you can find only with Gurobi.
    • Our advanced MIP heuristics identify feasible, good quality solutions, fast—where other solvers fall flat.
    • Our barrier algorithms fully exploit the features of the latest computer architectures.
    • Our APIs are lightweight, modern, and intuitive—to minimize your learning curve while maximizing your productivity.

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  • Gurobi Optimizer Delivers Responsive, Expert Support

    Responsive, Expert Support

    Our PhD-level experts are here when you need them—ready to provide comprehensive guidance and technical support. They bring deep expertise in working with commercial models and are there to assist you throughout the process of implementing and using Gurobi.

    • Tap into our team’s deep expertise—from implementation to tuning and more.
    • We respond to customer inquiries in hours not days, helping to quickly resolve any issues you’re facing.
    • We can help you fit and adapt your mathematical optimization application to your changing requirements.

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Improvement in Supply Chain Planning Accuracy
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Reduction in Planning Time

Peek Under the Hood

Dive deep into sample models, built with our Python API.

  • Market Sharing
  • Supply Network Design
  • Traveling Salesman
  • Market Sharing
  • Supply Network Design
  • Traveling Salesman
  • Market Sharing

    Market Sharing

    In this example, we’ll show you how to solve a goal programming problem that involves allocating the retailers to two divisions of a company in order to optimize the trade-offs of several market sharing goals. You’ll learn how to create a mixed integer linear programming model of the problem using the Gurobi Python API and how to find an optimal solution to the problem using the Gurobi Optimizer. This model is example 13 from the fifth edition of Model Building in Mathematical Programming by H. Paul Williams on pages 267-268 and 322-324. This modeling example is at the beginner level, where we assume that you know Python and that you have some knowledge about building mathematical optimization models. You may also want to check out the documentation of the Gurobi Python API.

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  • Supply Network Design

    Supply Network Design

    Supply Network Design I

    Try this Jupyter Notebook Modeling Example to learn how to solve a classic supply network design problem that involves finding the minimum cost flow through a network. We’ll show you how – given a set of factories, depots, and customers – you can use mathematical optimization to determine the best way to satisfy customer demand while minimizing shipping costs. This model is example 19 from the fifth edition of Model Building in Mathematical Programming by H. Paul Williams on pages 273-275 and 330-332. This modeling example is at the beginner level, where we assume that you know Python and that you have some knowledge about building mathematical optimization models.  

    Supply Network Design II

    Take your supply chain network design skills to the next level in this example. We’ll show you how – given a set of factories, depots, and customers – you can use mathematical optimization to determine which depots to open or close in order to minimize overall costs. This model is example 20 from the fifth edition of Model Building in Mathematical Programming by H. Paul Williams on pages 275-276 and 332-333 This modeling example is at the beginner level, where we assume that you know Python and that you have some knowledge about building mathematical optimization models.

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  • Traveling Salesman

    Traveling Salesman

    In this example, you’ll learn how to tackle one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problems in existence: the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The goal of the TSP – to find the shortest possible route that visits each city once and returns to the original city – is simple, but solving the problem is a complex and challenging endeavor. We’ll show you how to do it! This modeling example is at the advanced level, where we assume that you know Python and the Gurobi Python API and that you have advanced knowledge of building mathematical optimization models. Typically, the objective function and/or constraints of these examples are complex or require advanced features of the Gurobi Python API.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is mathematical optimization?

    Mathematical optimization uses the power of math to find the best possible solution to a complex, real-life problem. You input the details of your problem—the goals you want to achieve, the limitations you’re facing, and the variables you control—and the mathematical optimization solver will calculate your optimal set of decisions.

  • What’s a real-world example of mathematical optimization?

    85% of the world’s leading companies use mathematical optimization to make optimal business decisions. For example, Air France uses it to build the most efficient schedule for its entire fleet, in order to save on fuel and operational costs, while reducing delay propagation.

  • What makes mathematical optimization “unbiased”?

    Descriptive and predictive analytics show you what has happened in the past, why it happened, and what’s likely to happen next. But to decide what to do with that information, you need human input—which can introduce bias.

    With mathematical optimization, you receive a decision recommendation based on your goals, constraints, and variables alone. You can, of course, involve human input when it comes to whether or not to act on that recommendation. Or you can bypass human input altogether and automate your decision-making.

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