Case Study: ClarusOne Sourcing Service achieves optimized profit decisions with Alteryx

ClarusOne Sourcing Service - Customer Case Study

ClarusOne Sourcing Service worked with Alteryx to explore prescriptive analytics and optimization, looking for a better way to answer “what should we do?” rather than just describing or predicting outcomes. The case study focused on a business challenge with limited ingredients and pricing constraints, using Alteryx Designer and the Optimization Tool to determine the best production plan.

Alteryx implemented an optimization workflow that modeled objective functions and constraints for one and then two decision variables. In the examples, the tool identified an optimal output of 32 Hershey bars for £28.80 profit in the one-variable case, and 10 Hershey bars plus 46 Cookies and Crème bars for £55 total profit in the two-variable case, showing how Alteryx can drive better, constraint-based decisions.

ClarusOne Sourcing Service

Philip Mannering

Analyst