Dutch Delta Program Commissioner used mixed integer nonlinear programming to derive an optimal

investment strategy for strengthening dikes for protection against high water and keeping freshwater
supplies up to standard, resulting in savings of €8 billion in investment costs.

TNT Express developed a portfolio of multi-commodity and vehicle routing models for package and
vehicle routing and scheduling, planning of pickup and delivery, and supply chain optimization for its
operations across 200 countries using 2,600 facilities, 30,000 road vehicles, and 50 aircraft resulting, in
savings of €207 million over the period 2008–2011 and reduction in CO2 emissions by 283 million
kilograms.

Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator used mixed integer programming to determine
when each power plant should be on or off, the power plant output levels and prices to minimize the
cost of generation, start-up and contingency reserves for 1000 power plants with total capacity of
146,000 MW spread over 13 Midwestern states of U.S. and Manitoba (Canada) owned by 750
companies supplying 40 million users, resulting in savings of $2 billion over the period 2007–2010.

Mexico’s central security depository, INDEVAL, used linear programming to develop a secure and
automatic clearing and settlement engine to determine the set of transactions that can be settled to
maximize the number of traded securities, thereby efficiently processing transactions averaging $250
billion daily and optimally using available cash and security balances

Hewlett-Packard developed an efficient frontier analysis based Revenue Coverage Optimization tool for
analysis of its order history to manage product variety, thereby enabling increased operational focus on
most critical products, making data-driven decisions and increasing its market share, customer
satisfaction, and profits by more than $500 million since 2005.

Netherlands Railways developed a constraint programming based railway timetable for scheduling
about 5,500 trains daily, while ensuring maximum utilization of railway network, improving the
robustness of the timetable, and optimal utilization of rolling stock and crew thereby resulting in
additional annual profit of €40 million.

Motorola used mixed integer programming to develop Internet-enabled supplier negotiation software
with flexible bidding formats, multistage negotiation capabilities, multiple online negotiation formats
(with reverse e-auction, online competitive bidding facilities), and optimized selection of vendors to
support its global procurement function, automated negotiations, and the management of a
heterogeneous supply base of more than thousand vendors with different product portfolios and
delivery capabilities, thereby resulting in savings of more than $600 million