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Decision Optimisation Radar — 15 April 2026

Quickbase acquires Solvice, bringing constraint-based routing and scheduling into a no-code enterprise platform for ~12,000 customers. NVIDIA cuOpt v26.04 extends GPU LP to lower-cost FP32 hardware. Graph-RHO cuts flexible job shop scheduling time by 30%+ via critical-path-aware training. A VPP day-ahead paper achieves 100x speedup over the standard method via structural reformulation. Term of the Day: Rolling Horizon Optimisation.

Quickbase + Solvice NVIDIA cuOpt v26.04 FJSP Graph Neural Network VPP Stochastic Robust Rolling Horizon Optimisation

Decision Optimisation Radar — 14 April 2026

Oracle named Leader in both 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for Supply Chain Planning, including the inaugural Process Industries edition. IonQ and Einride publish a hybrid quantum-classical VRP workflow improving shipments by 12% on real freight data. ReSched (ICLR 2026) outperforms all prior dispatching rules on flexible job shop scheduling. Term of the Day: Large Neighbourhood Search.

Quantum-Classical VRP Job Shop DRL EV Fairness Large Neighbourhood Search ICLR 2026

Decision Optimisation Radar — 13 April 2026

Six 2026 Franz Edelman Award finalists present live OR deployments at INFORMS Analytics+, including ECCO Shoes' stochastic mixed-integer program for 536 stores and India's Anna Chakra food distribution system serving 810 million people. Two papers: end-to-end learning of correlated operating reserve requirements cuts energy dispatch cost by 4.8%; differentiable initialisation warm-starts ILP solvers for scheduling with 10x speedup. Term of the Day: Non-Anticipativity.

Edelman 2026 Operating Reserve Learning Differentiable Scheduling Non-Anticipativity

Decision Optimisation Radar — 12 April 2026

HiGHS v1.14.0 extends the free HiPO interior-point solver to convex quadratic programs; Gartner forecasts Supply Chain Management software with agentic AI will reach $53 billion by 2030. Two papers address tri-level resilience optimisation for wildfire-prone power grids and a new primal heuristic for Mixed-Integer Bilevel Optimisation. Term of the Day: Big-M Formulation.

HiGHS v1.14.0 Agentic AI SCM Wildfire Grid Resilience Bilevel Optimisation Big-M Formulation

Decision Optimisation Radar — 11 April 2026

Gartner's inaugural discrete-industries supply chain planning Magic Quadrant changes which vendors OR practitioners should benchmark; two arXiv papers show that explicit priority ordering, whether lexicographic objectives in routing or sparse features in MIP branching, outperforms implicit weighting across energy and solver-infrastructure domains. Term of the Day: Lexicographic Optimisation.

Lexicographic Optimisation Supply Chain Planning MIP Branching Column Generation Gartner MQ

Decision Optimisation Radar — 10 April 2026

As INFORMS Analytics+ opens tomorrow, four signals track AI moving from recommender to executor: Microsoft Physical AI blueprints, constrained agents making live routing decisions at UPS and FedEx, C3.ai launching tariff-triggered scenario replanning, and Trimble confirming AI route optimisation has crossed the production threshold. Term of the Day: Integrality Gap.

Integrality Gap Physical AI Supply Chain AI Constrained Agents Tariff Resilience

Decision Optimisation Radar — 9 April 2026

As LLMs automate MIP formulation and GPUs accelerate solving, Column Generation remains the decomposition insight that separates scalable production OR from models that stall at enterprise scale. Term of the Day: Column Generation.

Column Generation LLM+OR Supply Chain AI Healthcare Scheduling Portfolio Optimisation

Decision Optimisation Radar — 8 April 2026

As tariff volatility and energy grid disruption mount, signals converge on a single capability: decision systems designed to stay feasible when averages fail. Term of the Day: Two-Stage Robust Optimisation.

Robust Optimisation Supply Chain AI Fleet Scheduling Energy Systems Digital Twin

Decision Optimisation Radar — 7 April 2026

This week's dual OR conference season, INFORMS Analytics+ and AGIFORS convening simultaneously, marks the moment when decision intelligence transitions from annual planning exercise to always-on operational capability. Term of the Day: Pareto Optimality.

LLM + OR Multi-Objective Optimisation VRP GPU Optimisation Airline Operations

Decision Optimisation Radar — 6 April 2026

As AI systems gain the ability to verify their own outputs against executable solvers and operational data, the boundary between AI-as-recommender and AI-as-executor is dissolving — verifiability is becoming the new quality floor for enterprise decision intelligence.

Verifiable AI LLM + OR Supply Chain Robust Optimisation Stochastic MPC

Decision Optimisation Radar — 5 April 2026

The infrastructure layer for decision intelligence is maturing from research prototype to production-grade toolchain. Google DeepMind's Apache 2.0 Gemma 4 and Microsoft's RL-driven agentic AI in Dynamics 365 signal that reasoning-capable LLMs are arriving in enterprise workflows at scale without licensing friction.

LLM + OR Agentic Planning Supply Chain GPU Optimisation Combinatorial Optimisation

Decision Optimisation Radar — 23 March 2026

The LLM-as-formulator, solver-as-executor stack is reaching production readiness. Kinaxis + cuOpt delivers 12× speedup on 50M-variable models. Gartner's inaugural DI Magic Quadrant signals category maturity. cuOpt open-sourced under Apache 2.0.

Supply Chain LLM + OR GPU Optimisation Gartner MQ Carbon-Aware Scheduling
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