Artelys Optimizes Toyota Motor Europe Vehicle Processing Using FICO Technology
03 April 2024 - 10:10AM
Business Wire
Optimization solution improved efficiency,
reduced delivery times and reduced carbon footprint
FICO (NYSE: FICO):
Artelys, an independent company specializing in numerical
optimization, modeling, and decision support, has used FICO
optimization technology to build a solution that optimizes
post-production activity in Toyota Motor Europe’s vehicle
distribution hubs, organizing tens of thousands of operations on
thousands of vehicles a day. The manual scheduling that used to
take three hours per day for each hub is now done in 20
minutes.
A customer buying a vehicle from a Toyota retailer can add
numerous options to a Toyota vehicle such as a navigation system, a
towing bar or a parking assist system. To minimize delivery time,
the solution has increased the efficiency of the distribution hubs
of Toyota Motor Europe, ensured satisfactory delivery time to
customers, and reduced the carbon footprint of vehicle logistics
operations.
“The flexibility of FICO® Xpress and Artelys Kalis was key to
address the very specific scheduling needs of Toyota’s workshops,”
said Nicolas Omont, VP Operations at Artelys.
More information:
https://www.fico.com/en/products/fico-xpress-optimization and
https://www.artelys.com/solvers/xpress/.
At the heart of Toyota Motor Europe’s supply chain are seven
strategically located vehicle distribution hubs that handle both
the European-built models and those shipped to Europe from
overseas. These hubs ensure all vehicles get to their customers on
time, performing final installations on the vehicles and a final
inspection before shipping the vehicles to their retailer.
Achieving on-time delivery while reducing lead times and CO2
emissions is critical.
The Artelys solution optimizes the work plan at each hub,
maximizing the number of tasks that can be performed considering
many technical and operational constraints. These constraints vary
widely, from restricting vehicle movements within the facility to
ensuring compliance with legal working hours for the team.
“It is particularly hard to design applications able to
efficiently manage such heterogeneous constraints and objectives
and prioritize them,” said Omont. “In addition, the software
is able to manage optional flexibility by enabling potential
overtime to finish highly prioritized tasks or diversify crews
working on difficult tasks.”
User acceptance was also essential. Artelys developed the
solution to show planners that they wouldn’t lose flexibility in
their way of working, and they wouldn’t have a black box providing
plans without being able to understand them. Planners can analyse
the application output and understand differences with their
current way of working.
The Toyota Motor Europe solution must solve the planning every
day in a few minutes to allow sufficient time for the planners to
validate it. In addition, it can re-optimize on the fly, based on
end-user manual amendments.
“Thanks to Constraint Programming, the complex optimization
problems are solved with the reliability and consistency with no
room for failure,” concluded Omont. “We use advanced
features of FICO Xpress to implement several heuristics. They
provide distinct solutions among which the best one is
selected.”
Strong Partnership with FICO
“Artelys has a strong partnership with FICO, having worked
together for more than 15 years,” said Omont. “The solution
we created for Toyota relies on FICO® Xpress Optimization, as the
problem is modelled with Xpress Mosel language and solved with
Artelys Kalis, which is fully integrated into FICO® Xpress.
Artelys’ expertise in mathematical optimization applied to supply
chain has enabled FICO to consolidate its position as one of the
leading optimization solvers for supply chain applications in
Europe.”
“This kind of optimization will only gain in importance as
manufacturers worldwide look to reduce their carbon footprint while
maximizing performance,” said Alexandre Graff, vice president of
Global Partners & Alliances at FICO. “Artelys has
demonstrated with this project and others the massive potential of
using FICO optimization to solve incredibly challenging supply
chain problems.”
About Artelys
Founded in 2000 in Paris, Artelys is an independent company
specializing in numerical optimization, modelling and decision
support. Artelys activities cover software edition and consulting
services in optimization, data science and artificial intelligence.
The company provides off-the-shelf software such as the Artelys
Crystal suite or numerical optimization solvers and custom software
solutions to tackle specific business problems.
www.artelys.com/
About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and
businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company
is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to
improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and
foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability,
customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial
services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and
many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more
than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment
cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing
supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US
lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US
and other countries, improving risk management, credit access and
transparency. Learn more at www.fico.com.
FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation in the
U.S. and other countries.
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