Cristina's expertise is solutions strategy for supply chain planning & optimization software.

Optimization models are often perceived as black-boxes, especially in supply chain management.

What is the roadmap from a cryptic black-box to a valuable treasure chest? How do we create tools that enable key-users to successfully integrate their industry expertise?

It is essential that strategical decisions are integrated at every planning level, from top management to the shop floor.

By working with Cristina you receive the guidance to synchronise your planning levels—strategic, tactical, and operational—with your software, ensuring that no decisions are overlooked as they move between levels and tools.

Eliminating unnecessary technical jargon we bridge the gap between the technical and business concepts so you have a clear and practical understanding of how planning & optimization software aligns with your business goals.

Regardless of where you are on this transformative journey, you will receive a useful tool to help you navigate with ease.

🗺️ a map for navigating the selection process of the right software for your business needs

🔎 a fresh perspective of how you can maximize the business value from the tools you currently use

🧭 a compass to asses if the tools you have are still relevant in the VUCAworld and look for the next best step.

📝 Customized training sessions designed to help stakeholders understand how optimization models make decisions.

I believe no matter how complex a concept/tool is, it can be explained in an accessible way for any audience. I transform complexity into clarity - so you can trust that optimization models are the support you need in your decision making process.

Key-users take control of the planning tools and integrate successfully their industry expertise, planning skills and creativity. This empowers them to design and refine a more capable decision-making system, creating more transparency in the decision-making process.

Professional Experience:

• 10 years academia (PhD in Mathematics)

• 12 years supply chain planning & optimization (~35 projects)

•. Software packages: ANAPLAN, Arkieva, OMP, o9 Solutions, AMPL.

•. Commercial solvers: Gurobi, Xpress, Hexaly, Mosek and open source solvers: CP-SAT, Highs etc.

Supply chain problems:

• network optimization

• production and distribution streamlining

• milk & tea blending optimization

• packaging optimization

• meat balancing solutions

• vessel optimization

• cutting optimization

• MEIO.

Modelling techniques

• linear programming

• mixed integer programming

• constraints programming

• nonlinear programming

• heuristics (e.g. genetic algorithms).