"Inventory Control deals with a range of different approaches and models that can be used when developing inventory management systems and practices. The book's primary purpose is to serve as a core textbook in various university courses. In addition, it serves as a source book …
The strategic importance of efficient Supply Chain Management is today fully recognized by top management. The total investment in inventories is enormous, and the control of capital tied up in raw material, work-in-progress, and finished goods offers an important potential for …
"Operations Research: A Practical Introduction offers a clear introduction and guide to using OR techniques in scientific decision-making, design, analysis, and management. It not only presents the standard mathematical models and algorithms, but also includes a timely examinati…
"Students with diverse backgrounds will face a multitude of decisions in a variety of engineering, scientific, industrial, and financial settings. They will need to know how to identify problems that the methods of operations research (OR) can solve, how to structure the problem…
"Operations Research: A Practical Introduction offers a clear introduction and guide to using OR techniques in scientific decision-making, design, analysis, and management. It not only presents the standard mathematical models and algorithms, but also includes a timely examinati…
Mathematical foundations; Linear algebra; Fundamental concepts of classical optimization; Classical optimization theory for constrained functions; Finite calculus; Operational methods; Applications in operations research.
Method and models; Mathematical theory; Mixed programming and recent methods of integer programming.
"By presenting concepts in layman's terms and fully integrating advice related to technical and human characteristics of R/U-related corporate life, this book serves as a complete primer for professionals in any business environment."--Jacket.
This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war …
The nature of operational research. An initial posture. On fixing belief. Some dangerous precedents. The wedger bear. The new look. The activity of operational research. About models. Models in aspic. The formal languages. A walk in the ramified system; Apollo's gift. The releva…
Covering product warranties, this work offers comprehensive examinations of fundamental concepts and furnishes detailed, immediately applicable results. It sets out to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and integrates the research of various disciplines that study warra…
Considers cost and optimization problems from the manufacturer's and the buyer's points of view. The work discusses a variety of warranty policies and the mathematical models for the analysis of related engineering and management issues. All standard consumer product warranties …
Considers cost and optimization problems from the manufacturer's and the buyer's points of view. The work discusses a variety of warranty policies and the mathematical models for the analysis of related engineering and management issues. All standard consumer product warranties …