AI Is Who We Are

While artificial intelligence might seem a new thing, it has been around for decades. The origins of Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) are deeply rooted in AI techniques including an unparalleled expert system and our fifth-generation language, and our AI focus continues today with River Logic’s Intelligent Assistant (RIA), helping our clients quickly create and navigate unlimited planning scenarios to turn insight into action.

River Logic leverages Microsoft’s Azure AI platform, a comprehensive, cloud-based suite of artificial intelligence (AI) services and tools designed to help clients build complex planning models without requiring deep AI expertise. You can also bring your own AI from your preferred cloud vendor with plug in models. With our AI-Powered Enterprise Optimizers® Digital Planning Twin™ platform, strategic or operational planning has never been easier.

RIA – AI to Guide, Optimize, and Reveal New Insights

River Logic’s Intelligent Assistant (RIA) is a feature that provides direct access to the capabilities of Enterprise Optimizer® (EO). It simplifies the complexities of optimization modeling and artificial intelligence, delivering enterprise-grade decision-making in minutes instead of months.

With RIA, users can create, explore, and compare unlimited planning scenarios without writing a single optimization constraint or learning operations research. It speaks your business language, converts it into EO’s solver-ready models automatically, and presents recommendations you can act on immediately.

RIA puts AI at the forefront of your experience – intuitive enough for business leaders, yet built on decades of optimization intelligence that can handle the most complex value chain challenges.

CORE RIA PRIORITIES

Assist with Training & System Use: Guidance for navigating VCO
- “How do I run a new scenario?”
- “How do I use the lanes table?”
Act on Behalf of the User/Automation: Streamline work and automate processes.
- “Run data validations and report issues.”
- “Set up a new production line scenario, 10% faster, 20% less labor.”
Increase User Intelligence/Interpret Results: Provide insights and visualizations
- “Why does capacity utilization dip in period 3?”
- “Where can I improve marginal profit?”
Proactively Drive Actions: Alerts and recommendations for issues and opportunities.

Key Benefits

Decision Intelligence Without Complexity – Skip the data science and OR learning curve. RIA and EO handle the math, data structures, and solver logic so you don’t have to.
Unlimited What-If Exploration – Compare scenarios with different suppliers, facility configurations, production rates, or distribution models – all built instantly without manual re‑modeling.
Cause-and-Effect Insight – Visually map your supply chain and see how changes in one part ripple through costs, capacities, and service levels.
Seamless Scenario Management – Structure, store, and retrieve scenarios in a clean, auditable environment – no spreadsheet chaos, no lost assumptions.

Solver Intelligence Under the Hood – EO’s expert system combines intuitive graphical inputs with precise mathematical optimization, ensuring every recommendation is valid and implementable.
Open AI Integration – Bring in models from Microsoft Azure AI or any preferred cloud AI service and have them run side-by-side with EO optimizations – total flexibility, no lock-in.
Digital Planning Twin™ – Each scenario reflects a fully accurate, data-driven representation of your operations, enabling forward‑looking decisions with confidence.

RIA is your intelligent interface to powerful optimization capabilities – built to give you enterprise-grade decisioning without complexity. Here’s why it’s different:

Purpose-Built Access to an AI Expert System – RIA harnesses EO’s decisioning engine – encoded with decades of optimization logic and best practices – and makes it accessible through intuitive, business‑friendly interactions.
Instant Translation of Business Inputs – Describe your situation in plain business terms, and RIA converts it into solver‑ready optimization models automatically. No coding, no formula building, no manual modeling.
Predict and Optimize – RIA goes beyond passive BI dashboards that only describe the past – it suggests the best future paths, balancing trade‑offs across cost, capacity, revenue, and service.

Explainable AI Recommendations – Every recommendation from RIA is backed by structured data and explicit constraints from EO’s knowledge base, making decisions transparent, auditable, and defensible.
Holistic Value Chain Optimization – Through EO, RIA evaluates multiple objectives at the same time – profit, cost, efficiency, sustainability, service level – ensuring decisions improve the whole system, not just one metric in isolation.

The Technology Powering RIA

RIA leverages EO’s fifth‑generation language and expert system – honed over decades of business and value chain optimization – and combines it with Microsoft’s Azure AI platform, a comprehensive suite of AI services for scalability, integration, and customization.