Recommended Consultants


Modeling and Applications Development:

LINDO Systems' technical support services can answer questions pertaining to the operation of our software and often help get you pointed in the right direction if you have a specific modeling question. If you need more extensive modeling assistance, we recommend you enlist the help of a consultant specializing in operations research and optimization modeling. Some consultants we can recommend are listed below. All of these firms are well qualified for building models and decision support systems and they all have experience with LINDO Systems products:


      Strategic Systems International
Contact: Shoaib Abbasi
1603 Orrington Ave., Suite LL006
Evanston, IL 60201
Tel: 847.424.2497
Fax: 847.424.2481
email: sales@ssidecisions.com
web: www.ssidecisions.com
Strategic Systems has a team of modelers and application developers with a wide range of experience modeling supply chain management applications involving optimization. They have built models for large and small firms all over the US and internationally.
       
      Thomas W. Knowles and Associates
Contact: Dr. Tom Knowles
20440 Hellenic Dr.
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
Tel: 312.906.6530
Fax: 312.906.6549
email: tom@knowlesassociates.com
web: www.knowlesassociates.com
Dr. Knowles, of Thomas Knowles Associates, is a Professor of Operations Research at Illinois Institute of Technology as well as a consultant. He has extensive experience in modeling a broad variety of optimization problems.
       
      John F. Raffensperger, Ph.D.
Department of Management
Private Bag 4800
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel: 643.364.2987 ext. 8616
Fax: 643.364.2020
email: j.raffensperger@mang.canterbury.ac.nz
web: www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/people/jfraffen/
Dr. Raffensperger teaches management decision-making at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He also consults in writing spreadsheets and optimization.
       
      Dr. Sam L. Savage
Department of Engineering-Economic
Systems & Operations Research
Terman Engineering Center Rm # 417
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4025
Tel: 650.723.1670
Fax: 650.723.4107
email: savage@leland.stanford.edu
web: www.stanford.edu/~savage/
Dr. Savage currently teaches Analytical Modeling at Stanford University and consults and lectures extensively to business and government agencies. He is the president of AnalyCorp, a firm that develops executive education programs and software for improving business analysis.
       
      Value Chain Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Contact: Ashish Chauhan
#209-212, Ornet Arcade,
Opp. AUDA Garden,
Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad – 380015
INDIA
Tel: +91-79-40029988 (5 lines)
Fax: +91-79-26859998
e-mail: contact@valuechain.co.in
web: www.valuechain.co.in
VCS uses its consulting experience to understand the real problem and then builds a decision framework to understand what is expected out of the model.

VCS has delivered mathematical models in the area of
  • Forecasting
  • Logistics Optimization
  • Manufacturing Optimization
  • Supply Chain Simulation
  • Vendor Managed Inventory Optimization
  • Route Optimization
       
      Dr. Josef Kallrath
Scientific Consultant
Am Mahlstein 8
D-67273 Weisenheim am Berg
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6353 989 017
Fax: +49 (0)1212 5 197 197 29
e-mail: josef.kallrath@web.de
Dr. Kallrath is a specialist in modeling and solving mixed integer linear and nonlinear optimization problems and has consulted primarily in the process, paper, metal, and telecommunications industries.
       
       
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