Natural-Language Supply Chain Optimizer · LLM + operations research

Optimization for people who will never write a MILP.

A natural-language-first tool that helps warehouse and category managers understand their inventory, forecast what is coming, run what-if scenarios and get explainable, auto-selected optimization recommendations.

The question

Optimization for people who will never write a MILP.

Warehouse and category managers at industrial companies typically work by reading ERP screens and trusting that the numbers are correct. They have no background in statistics or optimization — and cannot sanity-check a wrong answer the way an operations-research specialist could.

Approach

How it works

  1. Language in, verified model out. Inspired in approach by Stanford’s OptiMUS: structured extraction, a per-constraint connection graph, confidence-based human escalation and an iterative debug loop.

  2. Constrained by design. Instead of free-form model generation, the pipeline maps requests onto a library of pre-verified templates for known supply-chain problem types.

  3. Explainability as a module. Explanation is a first-class component alongside ingestion, forecasting and optimization — recommendations arrive with the reasoning a non-specialist needs.

Stack & sources

Under the hood

PythonLLM pipelinesMILP templates

References

  • Stanford OptiMUS — arXiv:2407.19633 (approach reference, no shared code).
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