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Product-Mix Optimiser For An Integrated Steel Plant, Goutam Dutta, Gopal P Singh, P N Roy Dec 2000

Product-Mix Optimiser For An Integrated Steel Plant, Goutam Dutta, Gopal P Singh, P N Roy

IIMB Management Review

Optimal utilisation of constrained resources is one of the most important problems in the area of operations management. The determination of optimal productmix is an extremely difficult task for an organisation producing multiple products in multiple stages, sharing a set of common plant resources and experiencing a fluctuating market over time. In the absence of a quick method to determine optimality under changing conditions, plant managers have to make decisions based on their experience and intuition. 


Application Of Or To Management Practice: An Introduction, H K Lakshman Rao Dec 2000

Application Of Or To Management Practice: An Introduction, H K Lakshman Rao

IIMB Management Review

Customer dissatisfaction with products and services, long queues at hospitals and railway stations, stock out/excess stock situations, overflowing solid waste bins at street corners, delayed deliveries and time lag in new product development, steeply increasing project costs, high rates of wastage in the manufacturing process these are among the numerous instances indicating the lack of systems approach and inadequate appreciation of Operations Research (OR) methods in the Indian management and administrative network scenario.


The Pilgrim's Progress: Operations Research In Queuing, G Raghuram Dec 2000

The Pilgrim's Progress: Operations Research In Queuing, G Raghuram

IIMB Management Review

Good management practice is synonymous with applying operations research (OR). Both imply a systematic approach beginning with clarity in problem definition, understanding the objectives and constraints, characterising the alternatives (these three steps constitute  model building), evaluating (analysing) them and finally selecting an alternative for implementation. In addition to this basic methodology, there is also an implication of a quantitative basis to the extent possible. It is this quantitative basis which lends to the common perception that good management practice is much larger than OR


Applications Of Or In The Indian Context, R Sankar, Muthulingam Suresh Dec 2000

Applications Of Or In The Indian Context, R Sankar, Muthulingam Suresh

IIMB Management Review

Operations Research (OR) originated in England during World War II. The first applications aimed at improving the operational efficiency of the radar defence systems deployed by the Royal Air Force. Very soon thereafter, OR methods and techniques were applied successfully to the resolution of complex industrial and commercial problems in areas such as scheduling, inventory management, strategic planning, resource allocation and transportation.


Application Of Operations Research Techniques To Finance, Kamlesh Kosare Dec 2000

Application Of Operations Research Techniques To Finance, Kamlesh Kosare

IIMB Management Review

There is a pressing need to find solutions to vari ous problems in finance with the help of operations research techniques, which can be conveniently used, for decision making.


Linear Programming By G.V. Shenoy, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1989., A K Rao Dec 1990

Linear Programming By G.V. Shenoy, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1989., A K Rao

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.


Healthcare Management: Operation Research Perspectives, Basu Ghosh Jun 1990

Healthcare Management: Operation Research Perspectives, Basu Ghosh

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.


Application Of Fuzzy Set Technique To Agricultural Planning, S Kumar, Narasingh Misra, B C Ghosh Jun 1990

Application Of Fuzzy Set Technique To Agricultural Planning, S Kumar, Narasingh Misra, B C Ghosh

IIMB Management Review

In India, agriculture remains the dominant sector of economic activity with 74 percent work force depending on it. But the share of income from agriculture sector is less than the employment in it. Also the menace of unemployment and food requirement is increasing with growing population. Hence , there is a great need for increasing production and net profit levels on one hand and employment generation on the other. Irrigation planning plays an .mportant role in increasing agricultural production, net benefit, employment generation etc. as only 32 percent of the total cultivated area is irrigated in our country. Irrigation Planning …


An Application Of Decision Tree Analysis To The Central Provident Fund Board Of Singapore, Danis Ang, S Subba Rao Jun 1988

An Application Of Decision Tree Analysis To The Central Provident Fund Board Of Singapore, Danis Ang, S Subba Rao

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.


Some Stray Thoughts On Project Planing, B S Chetty Jun 1988

Some Stray Thoughts On Project Planing, B S Chetty

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.