UniSoma
Located in Campinas, in São Paulo (state), UniSoma develops and deploys decision support solutions for industrial, agribusiness and logistics chains processes, also known as Supply Chain Planning (SCP) or Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS).
The technological know-how is heavily based on Decision Technology, a set of Operations Research and Scientific Management techniques for computational simulation and optimization of logistics and production processes which comprise the supply chain.
History
UniSoma was founded in 1984 by Miguel Taube Netto - professor at State University of Campinas in the Mathematical, Statistical and Scientific Computation Institute (IMECC).
Awards
In 1995, UniSoma's PIPA system and Sadia received the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement, an annually distributed award by INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science, to organizations that used Operations Research and Scientific Management techniques for innovative and economically significant implementations. PIPA - Integrated Poultry Production Planning, consists of a set of planning modules for broiler production activities, at strategic, tactical and operational levels.
Sadia attributed to PIPA a benefit in savings of 50 million dollars from 1992 to 1994.
Partnerships
Since August 2004, UniSoma is a commercial partner of Paragon Decision Technologies, supplier of the algebraic modelling software AIMMS – Advanced Integrated Multidimensional Modelling Software.
As of January 6, 2009, with IBM's acquisition of ILOG, UniSoma and IBM are also partners.
Customers
A study conducted by Boston Consulting Group in 2009, showed that UniSoma's main customers consisted of Brazil's largest and most competitive companies, such as Sadia, Perdigão, ArcelorMittal Brazil, Gerdau, Votorantim Group, JBS S.A., Vale, Coteminas and Petrobras.
See also
- Supply Chain
- Mathematical modelling
- Linear Programming
- Computer Simulation
External links
pt:UniSoma