LogicTools
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LogicTools Inc. provides strategic supply chain optimization
software. It offers a suite of supply chain planning
solutions, including network design and planning, supply chain and inventory
planning and optimization solutions, supply chain scheduling applications, distribution and stocking solution, and production sourcing and asset planning solutions. It serves consumer packaged goods, distribution, high-tech, manufacturing
, process and chemical, and retail
industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Since April 11, 2007, LogicTools has been a subsidiary of ILOG
, which became an IBM
company in January 2009.
and designed to complement existing IT applications. LogicTools' products help companies make a wide range of supply chain decisions, from choosing the best strategic network design, deciding on the most efficient sourcing strategy to optimizing inventory placement throughout the different levels of the supply chain:
David Simchi-Levi, PhD, serves as Chief Science Officer
of ILOG
. Dr. Simchi-Levi co-founded of LogicTools Inc. (now part of ILOG) in 1995 and serves as its Consultant. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Operations Research
, the flagship journal of INFORMS. He also served as the editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics. He served as Chief Executive Officer of LogicTools Inc. He served positions in leading academic institutions, including Berkeley
, Columbia University
, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan
, Purdue University
, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech. He served as Chairman and Director of LogicTools, Inc. He served as Member of the board for several scientific journals. Dr. Simchi-Levi serves as Professor of Engineering Systems of MIT. He has won awards for his work in supply chain, logistics
, and transportation. He has consulted and collaborated extensively with private and public organizations. He is co-author (with Julien Bramel) of "The Logic of Logistics," published by Springer
in 1997. His new book, "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain," co-written with Philip Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi was published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill
in August 1999. The book received the book-of-the-year award and the Outstanding IIE
Publication award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers
. Dr. Simchi-Levi received his Ph.D. in operations research from Tel-Aviv University.
Edith Simchi-Levi is a Co-founder of LogicTools, Inc. and also serves as it's Vice President of Operations. Ms. Simchi-Levi has extensive experience in software development
and numerous consulting projects in logistics and supply chain management. She co-wrote "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain" and other publications related to supply chain management and e-business. She received her B.S. in Mathematics
and Computer Science
from Tel-Aviv University.
Dan Vanden Brink has been Vice President of Consulting of LogicTools, Inc. since October 2005 and serves as its Director of Professional Services
. In his most recent corporate role, Mr. Vanden Brink was Director of Supply Chain Practice at SSI/Orion consulting, building a 50 person team for the Chicago office. He has performed many roles at SSI/Orion consulting, from consultant to account manager. He has also worked at US Robotics and ITT Industries in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing roles. Mr. Vanden Brink also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
's Stuart School of Business teaching classes in Operations Management, Strategy, and Supply Chain Management. He has a BSc in Industrial Engineering
from Iowa State University
and an MBA in Operations Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology
. He is currently completing his PhD in Operations Research
with his dissertation focusing on Capacity Planning and Decision Theory.
Shaishav Dharia has been Vice President, Consulting of LogicTools, Inc. since December 2004. Mr. Dharia served as Director of Consulting at LogicTools. Prior to joining LogicTools, Mr. Dharia was employed by BearingPoint
as a Manager in their Supply Chain Practice and International Paper
as an Operations Research analyst in their Converting division. The industries in which Mr. Dharia has specific experience include Retail
, Consumer Packaging, Chemical, Telecom
and Pulp and Paper. He holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering / Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology
and is currently completing his MBA at the University of Chicago
. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Mumbai
, India.
Derek Nelson serves as Vice President, Product Development of LogicTools, Inc. Mr. Nelson holds a M.S. in Operations Research from Cornell University
and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Magna Cum Laude, from Northwestern University
.
LogicTools, a Chicago-based provider of supply chain
planning applications specializing in network design and
inventory optimization.
LogicTools’ applications are based on the ILOG CPLEX
optimization product.
On July 28, 2008, IBM
and ILOG announced an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG.
On January 6, 2009, the acquisition of ILOG by IBM was completed .
Supply chain optimization
Supply chain optimization is the application of processes and tools to ensure the optimal operation of a manufacturing and distribution supply chain. This includes the optimal placement of inventory within the supply chain, minimizing operating costs...
software. It offers a suite of supply chain planning
Planning
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
solutions, including network design and planning, supply chain and inventory
Inventory
Inventory means a list compiled for some formal purpose, such as the details of an estate going to probate, or the contents of a house let furnished. This remains the prime meaning in British English...
planning and optimization solutions, supply chain scheduling applications, distribution and stocking solution, and production sourcing and asset planning solutions. It serves consumer packaged goods, distribution, high-tech, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, process and chemical, and retail
Retail
Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Since April 11, 2007, LogicTools has been a subsidiary of ILOG
ILOG
ILOG is an international software company owned by IBM. It creates enterprise software products for supply chain, business rule management, visualization and optimization....
, which became an IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
company in January 2009.
Products and services
LogicTools provides strategic and tactical supply chain optimization applications based on CPLEXCPLEX
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is an optimization software package. In 2004, the work on CPLEX earned the first ....
and designed to complement existing IT applications. LogicTools' products help companies make a wide range of supply chain decisions, from choosing the best strategic network design, deciding on the most efficient sourcing strategy to optimizing inventory placement throughout the different levels of the supply chain:
- LogicNet Plus XE: a packaged network design and planning solution that combines CPLEX with a graphical user interface to manage complex supply chains
- Carbon Footprint Extension for LogicNet Plus XE: a network design and planning solution that helps companies understand the impact of their supply chain decisions on their carbon footprint
- Inventory Analyst: a Web-based, multi-echelon inventory optimization solution that provides end-to-end functionality for manufacturers, retailers and distributors
- Product Flow Optimizer (PFO): an integrated stocking and distribution strategy solution for supply chain and inventory optimization
- Plant PowerOps: a process optimization solution that addresses key production issues in the food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, and other consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries
- Transportation Analyst: a logistics solution that quickly analyzes different strategies for delivering products and assigning transportation assets (e.g., trucks and warehouses).
Key people
- David Simchi-Levi, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Consultant
David Simchi-Levi, PhD, serves as Chief Science Officer
Chief science officer
Chief Science Officer is a position at the head of scientific research operations at companies performing significant scientific research projects....
of ILOG
ILOG
ILOG is an international software company owned by IBM. It creates enterprise software products for supply chain, business rule management, visualization and optimization....
. Dr. Simchi-Levi co-founded of LogicTools Inc. (now part of ILOG) in 1995 and serves as its Consultant. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
, the flagship journal of INFORMS. He also served as the editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics. He served as Chief Executive Officer of LogicTools Inc. He served positions in leading academic institutions, including Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech. He served as Chairman and Director of LogicTools, Inc. He served as Member of the board for several scientific journals. Dr. Simchi-Levi serves as Professor of Engineering Systems of MIT. He has won awards for his work in supply chain, logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
, and transportation. He has consulted and collaborated extensively with private and public organizations. He is co-author (with Julien Bramel) of "The Logic of Logistics," published by Springer
Springer Science+Business Media
- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...
in 1997. His new book, "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain," co-written with Philip Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi was published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...
in August 1999. The book received the book-of-the-year award and the Outstanding IIE
IIE
IIE can stand for:* The Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise, one of the French public Grandes écoles of engineering, specializing in computer science...
Publication award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers
Institute of Industrial Engineers
The Institute of Industrial Engineers is a professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity...
. Dr. Simchi-Levi received his Ph.D. in operations research from Tel-Aviv University.
- Edith Simchi-Levi, Vice President of Operations
Edith Simchi-Levi is a Co-founder of LogicTools, Inc. and also serves as it's Vice President of Operations. Ms. Simchi-Levi has extensive experience in software development
Software development
Software development is the development of a software product...
and numerous consulting projects in logistics and supply chain management. She co-wrote "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain" and other publications related to supply chain management and e-business. She received her B.S. in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
from Tel-Aviv University.
- Dan Vanden Brink, Vice President of Consulting and Director of Professional Services
Dan Vanden Brink has been Vice President of Consulting of LogicTools, Inc. since October 2005 and serves as its Director of Professional Services
Professional services
Professional services is an industry of infrequent, technical, or unique functions performed by independent contractors or by consultants whose occupation is the rendering of such services....
. In his most recent corporate role, Mr. Vanden Brink was Director of Supply Chain Practice at SSI/Orion consulting, building a 50 person team for the Chicago office. He has performed many roles at SSI/Orion consulting, from consultant to account manager. He has also worked at US Robotics and ITT Industries in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing roles. Mr. Vanden Brink also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
's Stuart School of Business teaching classes in Operations Management, Strategy, and Supply Chain Management. He has a BSc in Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
from Iowa State University
Iowa State University
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
and an MBA in Operations Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
. He is currently completing his PhD in Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
with his dissertation focusing on Capacity Planning and Decision Theory.
- Shaishav Dharia, Vice President of Consulting
Shaishav Dharia has been Vice President, Consulting of LogicTools, Inc. since December 2004. Mr. Dharia served as Director of Consulting at LogicTools. Prior to joining LogicTools, Mr. Dharia was employed by BearingPoint
BearingPoint
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consulting firm. Following a post-bankruptcy management buyout in August 2009, BearingPoint has been operated by its European management team and is organized as a partnership...
as a Manager in their Supply Chain Practice and International Paper
International Paper
International Paper Company is an American pulp and paper company, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 59,500 employees, and it is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.-History:...
as an Operations Research analyst in their Converting division. The industries in which Mr. Dharia has specific experience include Retail
Retail
Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
, Consumer Packaging, Chemical, Telecom
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
and Pulp and Paper. He holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering / Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
and is currently completing his MBA at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
from the University of Mumbai
University of Mumbai
The University of Mumbai , is a state university located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was known as the University of Bombay until 1996 when the city of Bombay was renamed as Mumbai. The affiliated colleges of the university are spread throughout the city of Mumbai and four coastal districts in...
, India.
- Derek Nelson, Vice President of Product Development
Derek Nelson serves as Vice President, Product Development of LogicTools, Inc. Mr. Nelson holds a M.S. in Operations Research from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Magna Cum Laude, from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
.
Recent developments
On April 11, 2007, ILOG completed the acquisition ofLogicTools, a Chicago-based provider of supply chain
planning applications specializing in network design and
inventory optimization.
LogicTools’ applications are based on the ILOG CPLEX
optimization product.
On July 28, 2008, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
and ILOG announced an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG.
On January 6, 2009, the acquisition of ILOG by IBM was completed .
Books
- "Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi (MIT Press 2010)
- "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain," by David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky and Edith Simchi-Levi (McGraw-Hill Education, 2007)
- "The Logic of Logistics," by David Simchi-Levi, Julien Bramel and Xin Chen (Springer, 2005)
- "Managing the Supply Chain: The Definitive Guide for the Business Professional," by Edith Simchi-Levi and Philip Kaminsky (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004)
- "Designing and managing the supply chain concepts, strategies, and case studies," by David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky and Edith Simchi-Levi (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000)