Termination Settings

Relative Gap (%): For Safety Stock Optimization, determines the limit to which the gap between the predicted optimal solution and the current solution can reach before a solution is returned, relative to the predicted optimal solution. For example, to stop the solver when a solution has been found that is within 5% of the optimal solution, set the relative gap to 5. This will be written to the params.dat file as 0.05. The default is 0.01% (0.0001). To set this value in a scenario, select “Relative Gap” as the field in the Inventory Optimization Options table and enter the numeric value representing the gap value.

Time Limit (secs): Limit in minutes for the Safety Stock Optimization to run. At the end of the time limit, the solution calculated to that time will be returned. To set this value in a scenario, select “Safety Stock Optimization Time Limit (secs)” as the field in the Inventory Optimization Options table and enter the numeric value representing the number of seconds in the time limit.

Continue until at least one SSO solution is found: This option is only available if a numeric Time Limit is specified. If no solution is found within the Time Limit and this option is selected, the optimization will continue to run until a solution is found. To set this value in a scenario, select “Safety Stock Optimization Time Limit (secs)” as the field in the Inventory Optimization Options table and enter a positive numeric value. Create a second scenario item that sets the "Continue until at least one SSO solution is found" field from the Inventory Optimization Options table to "Yes".