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Melbourne Cbd, Victoria, Au

Paradyn's BlendOpt software provides bulk-commodity value chain scheduling, planning and management. BlendOpt simultaneously optimises how material should be stockpiled, processed, and blended with the goal of maximizing revenue and reducing costs. BlendOpt provides high quality prescriptive and actionable insights for tactical, operational, and strategic decision making, simplifies complexity, and enables your individuals, teams, and business to coordinate and rapidly respond to variation and disruption.Under the hood, BlendOpt leverages a number of advanced technologies including mathematical optimisation algorithms that search through vast numbers of planning possibilities to discover optimised strategies. The BlendOpt platform offers a flexible modelling environment that can be applied within strategic studies, long term planning, medium term planning and short term scheduling. Areas of plan focus include blend planning, stockpiling strategy, take or pay contracts, 3rd party purchasing contracts, processing strategy, rehandle costs, plant feed planning, product strategy, and delivery to a vessel schedule.

Melbourne Cbd, Victoria, Au

Worldwide, Oo

Decision Science and Analytics (DS&A) is a cross-service line offering established to deliver unique, analytically driven business solutions to help organisations achieve clear differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage through improved decision making and process optimisation. DS&A represents an evolved approach to analytics and decision support, reflecting the shift in the market to a solutions-based model. DS&A brings together many of Deloitte's leading capabilities in business strategy consulting, process improvement, human centred design, economics, channel integration, customer experience, real time decisioning, application implementation, analytic modelling and deployment, and information management.

Adelaide, Sa, Au

As lead optimization scientist at SolveIT, I designed and managed development of the optimisation and simulation capabilities within SolveIT's flagship software offering, the Pit2Port APS. The Pit2Port APS offering features industry-leading capabilities including whole-of-demand-chain optimized planning and scheduling integration, user-in-the-loop optimisation guidance, scenario-driven robustness analysis, activity locking, manual overrides, and automated analytical support for explaining optimal decision choices. The APS provides critical decision support within the mining demand chain including configurable planning and scheduling of ROM haulage, processing plant simulation and optimisation, stockyard stacking/reclaiming, rail network scheduling and simulation, port stockyard management, shiploading with hatch plans, ship berthing and scheduling, ship sailing and fleet modelling.

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Canberra, Act, Au

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemical Engineering

Phd, Operations Research

High School