Training Course Example

Building a

Planning Model

Course Number:

Custom SM905

Example Duration:

3 days

Approach:

Services-Led

Level:

Advanced

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Objectives

·         Learn how to identify and solve problems in distribution and production planning

·         To illustrate how these problems lend themselves to linear programming solutions

Course Benefits

·         Provides a generic introduction to the Aspen SCM planning module capabilities

·         Reviews Linear Programming (LP) basics

·         Fulfills prerequisite for subsequent Aspen SCM courses and certification

Who Should Attend

·         Managers, planners, implementers, and modelers

Approach

·         View and analyze production and distribution networks

·         Basic examples and exercises explain matrix generation, optimization, and report generation

·         Provide examples of Expert System rules for modifying planning model formulations, controlling the solution process, and interpreting solutions

Prerequisites

·         Should have extensive experience of using LP planning models

Building a Planning Model Example Course Agenda

·         Learn the types of problems linear programming addresses

·         Review the course business problem

·         Create new sets and tables

·         Execute Aspen SCM set/table commands

·         Review LP terminology

·         Translate a simplified business problem into mathematical terms

·         Solve simple linear programming problems graphically

·         Define and fill the generic data structures for an LP problem

·         Generate/review the LP matrix for a simplified business problem

·         Learn more LP terminology

·         Specify the direction of optimization

·         Invoke the optimizer

·         Solve the simplified business problem

·         Analyze the optimized LP solution

·         Formulate the business problem using step-wise procedure

·         Perform matching with subsets/supersets via matrix generator

·         Use no match markers

·         Calculate a matrix term rather than using a table

·         Define reports in Report Catalog

·         Build a series of reports for the business problem

·         Incorporate time periods in an LP model

·         Understand how LP models handle inventory

·         Transform the business problem into a multi-time period inventory model

·         Work with multidimensional tables

·         Add new reports to handle inventory and time-dependent solution data

·         Extract rows/columns from the matrix and understand the row/column intersections

·         Use TRANROW and TRANCOL commands

·         Create and execute macros

·         Understand how the Expert system affects LP applications

·         Track model updates with the Blackboard process

·         Define set relationships with compact incidence tables

·         Make matrix generation efficient

·         Understand the partial matrix generation concept

·         Generate and solve MIP (mixed integer programming) problems

·         Improve MIP solution performance

·         Understand the SCM Scenario-Based Planner

·         Use new LP commands

·         Review an example

·         SCM/LP for the Algebraic Mind by Dr. Thomas E. Baker