Case Study: Air Liquide achieves global profit optimization with AIMMS

Air Liquide Leverages AIMMS For Profit Optimization At A Global Level

Air Liquide, the global leader in industrial, medical and environmental gases operating in 80 countries with a 6,000 km pipeline network in Northern Europe and the U.S., faced a highly dynamic market with constantly fluctuating demand and a very complex distribution network. Relying on spreadsheets proved inadequate for modeling, visualizing and understanding interdependencies across its supply chain or for forecasting the impact of changes.

Air Liquide implemented AIMMS across its global operations, deploying optimization models to boost production, reduce production, distribution and inventory costs, and maintain profitable pipeline operations. AIMMS models are shared enterprise-wide to support collaboration and are used daily to adapt to customer demand and energy-price changes in near real time, delivering greater transparency, improved global collaboration and significant cost savings.

Air Liquide

Charles Neely Harper

Director of Smart Manufacturing at Air Liquide, Large Industries