What is Optimisation?
The Best Solution
Optimisation is a process that has the power to dramatically improve the way you
do business. It allows you to find the best solution to a huge number of day-to-day
and strategic business problems.
Competitive Advantage
Using optimisation in your business means you can quickly react to changing conditions,
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your workers.
How it's done
Optimisation is a rigorous approach which takes into account all of the factors
that influence decisions in business. This includes modelling of the problem, constraints
on problems, and advanced solvers to give you the right solution to the right problem.
A range of Applications
Optimisation has a consistent track record across a wide range of industry and commerce.
These include:
- Process industries (refining, chemicals, pharmaceuticals)
- Manufacturing industries
- Energy (oil, gas, coal, etc)
- Utilities (gas, electricity, water, telecommunications)
- Banking, insurance, finance and securities
- Transport, logistics and distribution
- E-commerce and ISPs
- Trading, procurement and sourcing
About Canary Optimisation
Canary uses advanced linear, nonlinear and network optimisation algorithms to deliver
your company more for less. By applying mathematics to practical business problems,
your organisation can improve its productivity. That means better decisions are
made about how to commit assets like capital, people, vehicles, materials, time
or facilities. The Canary focus is to dramatically increase business efficiency,
competitiveness and performance.
Optimisation and your business
Efficiency
Canary's optimisation technologies allow you to create leaner processes which give
you more outputs for less inputs. It gives your business the power to improve key
performance indicators while lowering production and distribution costs, and manage
rostering more effectively. Optimisation allows your business to gain the competitive
edge.
Planning
Examining new strategies is a core part of any business - whether it be looking
at long term planning or day-to-day operations. Mathematical models allow planning
for the future, looking at different scenarios such as 'what happens to my production
if demand doubles?', 'is it cost effective to open new plant?', or 'what will be
the effect of hiring three new staff'? The projected cost of different scenarios
can be found, rather than relying on qualitative measures of performance. Canary's
analysis can help your organisation pro-actively investigate opportunities, plans
and ideas in a quantitative manner.
Performance
The end goal of optimisation is to improve your business. That means higher quality
products or services, increased customer satisfaction, and lower costs. Cost savings
of 10-50% can be made in many areas of your business, while improving productivity
and quality.
Simulation
Every business is different, and requires different approaches to optimisation.
Canary works in conjunction with your business to understand your processes. Each
part of your operations are modelled mathematically using advanced algorithms. This
modeling can be very detailed - looking at a particular supply chain or transportation
problem - or holistic, examining your business as a whole.