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LogicNet Carbon Footprint Extension

Green supply chain planning
Worldwide, companies are calculating environmental concerns into their strategic planning. They are being encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint through increased regulation, carbon limits and carbon trading markets, as well as their own respect for the environment.

The new Carbon Footprint Extension for LogicNet Plus 6.0 XE enables users to compare different supply chain network configurations and transportation strategies with the objective of reducing harmful emissions. Carbon Footprint helps companies evaluate their environmental impact along with operational costs when designing supply chain networks.

“The level of a supply chain’s carbon footprint reflects not only potential, current and future liabilities in taxes and offset costs, but may reflect inherent inefficiencies in their operations,” says Dr. David Simchi-Levi, professor at MIT and product strategy consultant for ILOG. “Moreover, the ability to quantify and reduce carbon dioxide may allow companies to earn credits that can be traded with less efficient companies, as is evident by the 40 billion euros worldwide market for carbon emission permits in 2007.”

Environmental initiatives
LogicNet Plus XE offers advanced optimization technology for managing complex supply chains by allowing users to quickly analyze trade-offs between production, warehousing, and transportation and service costs, as well as calculate optimal network configurations based on cost and service objectives.

The new Carbon Footprint module extends LogicNet Plus XE to help companies rapidly create and implement green supply chain initiatives.

Carbon Footprint’s features include:

• Out-of-the-box resource data regarding carbon emissions associated with various supply chain activities – Gives companies a head start in assessing their carbon footprint, and includes plants, warehouses and various modes of transportation. This is a critical resource for companies trying to comply with regulatory caps, benefit from the carbon trading market and align with corporate environmental goals.
• Reporting capability that helps users assess the carbon emission levels of different supply chain configurations – Shows the relationship between carbon emissions and supply chain activities to help users make better environmental decisions and comply with regulations for reporting carbon emissions.
• Ability to set a cap on carbon emissions – Lets users set a maximum for carbon emissions and use it as a nonnegotiable constraint when evaluating trade-offs. LogicNet Plus XE has the ability to determine a low-cost solution without violating an emission cap.

Carbon Footprint gives companies the ability to understand the environmental impact of an entire supply chain and make forward-looking decisions to reduce both costs and harmful emissions.

To learn more about Carbon Footprint, visit http://carbonfootprint.ilog.com.

 

 

 

ILOG Rule Studio Scorecard Modeler

More predictable business
Understanding the probability of certain outcomes based on prior business experience – the likelihood of a borrower’s defaulting on a loan or a seller’s failing to deliver an item auctioned through the Internet – makes predictive analytics essential to doing business. Being able to act on this understanding, however, requires a predictive model to be realized as part of automated decisions. Scorecards are a key means for making predictive models actionable. Commonly used in businesses such as banking and insurance, they can also benefit many other industries. However, the complexity of these systems and the volume of data they must process often discourage companies from adopting scorecard systems. Instead, companies sample data or rely on subjective assessments.

ILOG Rule Studio Scorecard Modeler tears down this barrier, making simple, affordable and highly reliable scorecard technology available to companies in every industry. It provides a complete scorecard system that business analysts modify to the specific conditions of their organizations.

Scorecard basics
A typical scorecard uses attributes such as age, marital status and citizenship. Each attribute is given a set of ranges, and each range is assigned a score. When a scorecard is applied, the scores for the different attributes can be added together and the total used as the basis for a decision. Scorecard Modeler provides all of this, along with the ability to write rules that process scores. And it makes it easily accessible through a simple interface that gives business analysts complete control over the attributes. Companies can assemble complex (nested) scorecards that pull in other scorecards based on entered data as well.

Scorecard Modeler can also associate reasons with scores. Reasons can be attached to attributes and presented in final reports. For instance, if an applicant is under a specific age, the scorecard can be set to list “too young” as a reason for rejecting the applicant.

Scorecard Modeler is an add-on module that extends the range of ILOG JRules, the market-leading ILOG business rule management system (BRMS). Users access it through ILOG Rule Studio, a rule and code editor that works with the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).

More information: http://scorecard.ilog.com.