Where Could Optimization Create Value Across Your Portfolio?

Princeton Consultants and Gurobi help private equity firms identify high-value optimization opportunities and turn them into production-ready solutions with rapid Time To Payback.

Your portfolio companies make important decisions involving production, inventory, workforce, transportation, capacity and assets. Optimization can help them determine the best course of action while accounting for business objectives and real-world constraints. We invite PE operating partners and value-creation leaders to meet with us to explore where optimization could deliver meaningful improvements across your portfolios.

Schedule a Portfolio Optimization Discussion

Some of the greatest opportunities for improvement are hidden in decisions that companies make every day.

  • Which orders should be produced at which plants?
  • Where should inventory be located?
  • How should technicians, vehicles and equipment be assigned?
  • How can companies balance competing objectives while respecting capacity, time, cost and service constraints?

Representative Opportunities Across PE Portfolios

Supply chain & distribution

Inventory positioning, network design, replenishment and fulfillment

Manufacturing & production

Capacity allocation, production scheduling and sequencing

Workforce & field services

Technician assignment, shift scheduling and dispatch

Transportation & logistics

Fleet utilization, routing and asset scheduling

Asset-intensive operations

Maintenance planning, equipment allocation and resource utilization

Software & technology

Gurobi-powered optimization embedded in commercial products

Together, Princeton Consultants and Gurobi provide the expertise and technology to help company leaders transform performance.

World-class optimization expertise

Full-lifecycle optimization solution development and advisory services. Founded in 1981, Princeton Consultants helps many of the best managed companies solve complex operating and business problems through custom optimization software solutions.

The global leader in optimization technology

Gurobi’s optimization solver supports mixed-integer programming (MIP) and other mathematical optimization approaches, enabling executives to evaluate large numbers of decision alternatives while satisfying operational and business constraints.

Optimization in Action

United States Census field worker

2020 U.S. Census

Through optimization, automation and re-engineering, Princeton Consultants and Gurobi helped the US Census Bureau best manage, assign, schedule, and route workers and save $2.5 billion.

Electricity transmission network at dusk

Electricity Grid Operator

Which units to run? How much from each? Princeton Consultants and Gurobi help match supply and demand safely, efficiently, and economically, every day.

Biotech manufacturing facility

Biotech Manufacturer

By integrating optimization and simulation, Princeton Consultants and Gurobi helped identify resource bottlenecks and the best use of capital improvements. The company was ultimately purchased for $9 billion.

E-commerce order fulfilment

E-Commerce Retailer

Princeton Consultants and Gurobi helped an e-commerce giant best assign customer orders throughout the day to DCs while minimizing shipment costs, observing inventory limits, reducing split orders, and balancing workload.

Princeton Consultants and Gurobi invite your operating partners, value-creation leaders and technology executives to an in-person or virtual session focused on identifying promising optimization opportunities among your portfolio companies.

We will review your portfolio in advance and arrive with observations about specific companies and decisions that could benefit from optimization.

  1. 1

    Review

    Discuss selected portfolio companies and the complex operating decisions they face.

  2. 2

    Identify

    Explore where optimization could improve cost, throughput, service, utilization or growth.

  3. 3

    Prioritize

    Identify one to three opportunities worth discussing further with portfolio-company management.

  4. 4

    Recommend

    Agree on appropriate next steps, potentially including an opportunity assessment, feasibility study or prototype.

There is no need to identify an optimization project before a session. Helping you discover promising opportunities is the purpose of the discussion.

Let’s Explore Your Portfolio

Through a focused working session

Schedule a Portfolio Optimization Discussion

We will reply to arrange a time that suits your team.