IBM® Decision Optimization helps businesses become more customer-centric by automating complex decisions and trade-offs about limited resources so that they can more easily:

Sterling Order Management features include:

• Align business models with customer needs to increase business effectiveness and deployment speed of enterprise planning and scheduling decisions.
• Configure integrated solutions to address challenges at each stage of the commerce lifecycle – buy, market, sell, service – and their interrelationships.
• Leverage Advanced Analytics and Decision Optimization to transform massive data into fact-based decisions.
• Leverage IT investments to allocate limited resources to maximize value through planning and scheduling processes that achieve the best possible performance and customer experience.

Optimization Solutions:

• IBM® ILOG® CPLEX® Optimization Studio
  Optimization modeling development toolkit for mathematical and constraint programming.
• IBM® ILOG® ODM Enterprise
  Collaborative line-of-business decision planning and execution for the enterprise.
• IBM® ILOG® Supply Chain Optimization
  Supply chain decision support applications.
• IBM® ILOG® LogicNet Plus XE
  Network & Sourcing Optimization: Manage business growth through ongoing strategic planning and production sourcing optimization.
• IBM® ILOG® Transportation Analyst
  Strategic Route Planning: Optimize the utilization of your transportation assets with vehicle routing and shipment planning.