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Hundreds of Quantum Applications

The D-Wave quantum computer leverages quantum dynamics to accelerate and enable new methods for solving complex problems. Our customers are building quantum applications for a broad spectrum of industries and use cases such as logistics, financial services, drug discovery, materials sciences, scheduling, fault detection, mobility, and supply chain management. Learn more about today’s quantum computing use cases below.

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    E-Comm Driver Auto Scheduling: Pattison Food Group

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    E-Comm Driver Auto Scheduling: Pattison Food Group

    Pattison Food Group has over 100 stores that offer e-commerce delivery. 3-4 people are dedicated to manually creating driver schedules each week. Pattison worked with D-Wave to create these schedules automatically, taking scheduling rules (seniority, preferences/history, and policies) into account. As a result, weekly manual efforts for initial scheduling creation was reduced by ~80%​.

    COMPANY : Pattison Food Group
    INDUSTRY : Retail
    DISCIPLINE : Optimization
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    Real World Application of Quantum-Classical Optimization for Production Scheduling

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    Real World Application of Quantum-Classical Optimization for Production Scheduling

    Abhishek Awasthi∗, Nico Kraus†, Florian Krellner‡, David Zambrano†

    *BASF Digital Solutions GmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

    †Aqarios GmbH, Munich, Germany

    ‡SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany

    This work is a benchmark study for quantum- classical computing method with a real-world optimization problem from industry. The problem involves scheduling and balancing jobs on different machines, with a non-linear objective function. We first present the motivation and the problem description, along with different modeling techniques for classical and quantum computing. The modeling for classical solvers has been done as a mixed-integer convex program, while for the quantum-classical solver we model the problem as a binary quadratic program, which is best suited to the D-Wave Leap’s Hybrid Solver. This ensures that all the solvers we use are fetched with dedicated and most suitable model(s). Henceforth, we carry out benchmarking and comparisons between classical and quantum-classical methods, on problem sizes ranging till approximately 150, 000 variables. We utilize an industry grade classical solver and compare its results with D-Wave Leap’s Hybrid Solver. The results we obtain from D-Wave are highly competitive and sometimes offer speedups, compared to the classical solver.

    COMPANY : BASF, SAP
    INDUSTRY : Manufacturing
    DISCIPLINE : Optimization

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