Choose the Right Direction is an independent Dutch company located in Delft that specializes in delivering decision support solutions based on operations research technology, including their flagship product Scenario Navigator simulation software, to help customers across various industries like manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare improve decision making. They have offices worldwide and work with customers like food and beverage producers, ports, hospitals, and more to model and analyze complex systems through simulation.

1. Choose the right direction!™

2. Independent Dutch company, located
in Delft, specialized in delivering
decision support solutions based on
OR technology.

3. Founding member of the WSA
Arena distributor West-Europe
Manufacturer of Scenario Navigator

4. Our projects…
Office in Delft, The Netherlands
Food & Beverage
Manufacturing
Maritime
Logistics
Oil, Chemicals & LNG
Healthcare

5. Our customers…

6. Top 10 strategic technologies for 2010

7. Decision support framework
Manager
Analyst Developer

8. Simulation user community
• End responsibility
Decision • Teamwork
maker(s) • Understanding
• Domain
knowledge
Analyst(s) • Experimentation
• Communication
• Simulation
Model(s) Model software experts
builder(s) • Analytical
User
interface
Reports &
Dashboards

9. Manufacturing
Design of Greenfield production plants
Production planning /scheduling
Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Just in time/Kanban systems
Operations efficiency

10. Food & Beverage
Design of Greenfield production plants
Production planning /scheduling
Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

11. Food & Beverage

12. Maritime
Port logistic design
LNG terminal design & operations planning
Oil & chemical terminal design & operations planning
Maritime waterway design
Container terminal design

13. Maritime
Panama Canal

14. Business Process
Design and implementation of contact centers
Design and implementation of shared services centers
Business Process Reengineering
Modeling front-office and back-office processes
Business Process Planning
Human Resource Modeling

15. Business Process
Customer transactions in a bank

16. Logistics
Warehouse Operations
Fleet Planning
Fleet Maintenance
Airport Planning (airside & landside)
Manpower sizing
Contingencies and risk management
Intermodal & multi model system design

17. Oil, Chemical & LNG
Warehouse Operations
Production planning /scheduling
Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
Port logistic design
LNG terminal design & operations planning
Oil & chemical terminal design & operations planning

18. Healthcare
Simulation of the Accident & Emergency department of an NHS hospital
Hospital Navigator Bed Occupancy Edition
Medical Process Template for Arena simulation software
Operational decision support solution for hospital theatre scheduling

19. Partners

20. Forecasting
Do you know what business
decisions you have to make
today to be prepared for
tomorrow?

21. Forecasting

22. Forecasting Algorithms
Moving average Trend estimation Linear prediction
Exponential Growth curve Auto Regressive
Smoothing Moving Average
Extrapolation

23. Forecasting arrivals
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Historic uitgaande items Forecasted stock level 90 conf low 90 conf high

24. Planning & Scheduling
Improvement in productivity
Reduction in raw materials inventory
Reduction in make-span time
Improvement in customer service
Take into account real-world capacity limits
Unexpected events
Material pegging & complex routing

25. Serious Gaming

26. Viewboard 2 Input tijdens game : Ambulances
Ambulances
Aantal ambulances die ingezet worden
Ziekenhuizen
Ziekenhuizen waar slachtoffers heen
gebracht kunnen worden:
vanuit een bepaalde standplaats:
Cap: Bezet:
Cap: Inzet: Ambulance standplaats: Ziekenhuis Enschede 160 0
3 3 Enschede Noord
Ziekenhuis Almelo 30 0
4 1 Enschede West
Ziekenhuis Hengelo 45 0
1 0 Enschede Oost
Ziekenhuis Zwolle 155 0
2 0 Almelo
1 0 Hengelo
5 0 Zwolle
Tijdstip
Dinsdag 28 juli 2009 13:07:00 T0 + 00:00 Vervolg game
8.40
Multi/touch table
Serious Gaming

27. Serious Gaming

28. Scenario Navigator
Advanced simulation software to empower decision making
Interactive Gantt Project
Charts Reports
dashboards charts database
Running Supporting
Scenario User Tables &
simulation simulation
management management queries
models engines

29. Simulation in the cloud
Simulation as a service
Running models on servers
A web interface to Scenario Navigator

30. Serious gaming
Visualization
Google Earth
3D Studio Max

31. Delftechpark 38, Delft
+31 (0) 157501032
www.systemsnavigator.com
Joost.smits@systemsnavigator.com