Core Competencies

Innovative Scheduling has core competencies in the fields of operations research, operations management, information technology, software engineering, and transportation and economic analysis. The following discussion outlines our strengths in these areas.

Operations Research

• Designing new algorithms for solving large-scale planning and scheduling problems arising in transportation companies
• Applying specialized, cutting-edge linear, integer, network, and heuristic optimization techniques

Software Development

• Packaging optimization codes into user-friendly, interactive decision support systems
• Developing high-end, off-the-shelf, customized software
• Integrating our models to client’s legacy systems
• Delivering web-based applications
• Presenting model results and sophisticated spatial analyses using geographical information systems (GIS)

Operations Management

• Assessing current business processes and quantifying opportunities for improvement
• Re-engineering processes / improving performance
• Analyzing organizations / managing change
• Automating highly constrained and complex decision processes that are currently solved manually
• Partnering with our clients to design, test, and implement our solutions

Transportation and Economic Analysis

• Calibrating unit costs as model inputs
• Determining optimum mix of production inputs through analysis of system-wide network costs
• Calculating return-on-investment for proposed infrastructure, equipment acquisitions, or changes in business practices
• Working with clients to analyze trade-offs in capital expense, operating costs, and service quality
• Analyzing proposed mergers
• Supporting regulatory analyses of alternative pricing structures and/or access regimes
• Forecasting freight volume demand