​Evaluating Scenarios and Visualizing Results to Gain Practical Insights

Sensitivity analysis has two main limitations:

• The report can only tell you what will happen to the optimal solution, when you make one change at a time and everything else remains the same.
• The prices and costs in the sensitivity report are only valid in a specified range.

We can, however, evaluate the scenarios that involve more than a single change, or where the change is outside the valid range of the sensitivity report. It is possible to create more complicated scenarios using the parameter analysis tool, by adding more parameters that can change values.
 
Now, interpretation of the solver reports requires technical knowledge of optimization terminology. Hence, one can’t expect clients or other people in the organization to know these concepts. Data visualization can help present results in forms that are more understandable to those not familiar with optimization.

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​Visualization of suppliers:

Visualization of capacity constraints:

Visualization of reduced costs:
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