Description

Cristina Radu offers solutions strategy & optimization services that reshape the approach to supply chain planning software such that you increase planning efficiency and achieve stronger business outcomes.

You get focused, industry-specific support to make the right decisions around planning and optimization software, from evaluating your current tools and selecting the right vendor to ensuring a smooth design and implementation (MPS, RCCP, S&OP, MRP, and DRP).

Planning and optimization software is explained in practical jargon-free terms, making its alignment with your business goals easy to understand and act on.

As a result, strategic decisions flow smoothly across all planning levels, from top management to the shop floor, ensuring your software keeps everything aligned and no decision is overlooked.

Key-users take control of the planning tools and integrate successfully their industry expertise, planning skills and creativity.

This empowers them to design and refine a more capable decision-making system, creating more transparency in the decision-making process.

By clarify how mathematical models make decisions we build trust or restore it when it has been compromised.

Regardless of where you are on this transformative journey, you receive a useful tool to help you navigate with ease.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Romanian
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
French
Conversational
Dutch
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Eindhoven (up to 50km)

Sage Optimization
Freelancer| Supply Chain Solutions Strategy & Optimization
March 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)
• Leading strategy and technical design for solver-based supply chain planning tools

• Designed network optimization in AMPL (retail) and led configuration of o9 Solutions planning tools (FMCG)

• Created the Hands-on Supply Chain Optimization Masterclass (12 episodes on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmRbStNSBmiWDyH3EAZQ655GgucbrT-TH)

• Founder of the optimization expertise hub Optimization4All (https://optimization4all.com).

For more details please check out my website: https://www.sageoptimization.com
Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Optimization Technical Leaderdship Supply Chain Modeling Technical Coaching
Bluecrux
Optimization Expert & Solution Architect
December 2020 - December 2021 (1 year)
2021 – Optimization Lead Design & Configuration

• ANAPLAN network optimization solver for a glass manufacturer

• Modeled complex constraints: campaign optimization, max number of changeovers, capacity, lot sizes, inventory, procurement, transportation and production costs.
o9 Solutions, Inc.
Senior Application Architect -Optimization (R&D Team)
January 2022 - February 2024 (2 years and 1 month)
• Designed and prototyped LP/MIP algorithms within o9's optimization engines

• Researched and integrated third-party solvers and mathematical libraries

• Guided development and delivery teams on solver logic and heuristic tuning (15 projects in FMCG, chemicals, retail, semiconductors, automotive, mining).