MBA SEMESTER II MB0048 –Operation Research- 4 Credits (Book ID: B1137) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions 1. a. Explain how and why Operation Research methods have been valuable in aiding executive decisions. [5 Marks] b. Discuss the usefulness of Operation Research in decision making process and the role of computers in this field. [5 Marks] 2. Explain how the linear programming technique can be helpful in decision-making in the areas
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Operations Research Unit 6 Unit 6 Structure Assignment Problem 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. Introduction Mathematical formulation of the problem Hungarian method algorithm Routing problem 6.4.1. Unbalanced A.P 6.4.2 Infeasible Assignments 6.4.3 Maximization in A.P 6.5. 6.6. Traveling salesmen problem Summary Terminal Questions Answers to SAQs and TQs 6.1 Introduction The assignment problem is a special case of the transportation problem‚ where the objective is to minimiz
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end of this session. This was the step‚ a stimulus towards being a future Business person. And for which it was very vital for me to know how a business organization manages the various processes associated with its goods and services. As a future Operation Manager it’s my responsibility to be cognizant about the know-how of what exactly my roles would then be. I learnt that OM in simple terms is a collection of processes that helps creating a service or a good starting from its input phase giving
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES OF SMALL‚ HIGH GROWTH ELECTRONICS FIRMS In a relatively short period of time the Japanese have been able to produce higher quality products that are more reliable and cost less than many competing products manufactured throughout the world. Their ability to accomplish this task has been attributed to their precise utilization of various operations management activities‚ along with human resource development in the manufacturing segment of their organizations. If
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Operation Overlord was the most decisive event in World War II. Nazi Germany had taken over most of Contenitial Europe‚ and was amassing great power. The Allied Forces launched a huge offensive‚ crossing the British Channel‚ and attacking Normandy‚ France. Overall‚ the Allies launched five assaults‚ along with paratroopers‚ on forty miles of beaches (Bowden 6). The Allies knew they had to do something. The Soviets were attacking Hitler from the east‚ but since nothing was happening in the west‚
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NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL Monterey‚ California THESIS INFORMATION OPERATIONS IN STRATEGIC‚ OPERATIONAL‚ AND TACTICAL LEVELS OF WAR: A BALANCED SYSTEMATIC APPROACH by Bunyamin Tuner September 2003 Thesis Advisor: Thesis Co-Advisor: Daniel Boger Steve Iatrou Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to
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INTRODUCTION Operations management has been defined as a set of activities that transforms inputs to outputs creating goods and services. It is made up of the following decision areas; service and product design‚ quality management‚ location strategy‚ process and capacity design‚ layout design‚ supply chain management‚ human resources and job design‚ inventory management‚ scheduling‚ and maintenance (Thompson‚ 2017). This paper will discuss three operation decision areas‚ Service and product design
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emergency‚ technical or a reassurance call from the customer. This is viewed over a twelve-hour shift and highlights the problems where the call centre is over capacity or under capacity. The case study looks at the problems with the current operations and service management within Medi–Call call centres. Within this report the main problems will be identified‚ for example – the amount of time that could be saved from each call from the customer (for more the more important emergency calls)‚ the
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Operation Ranch Hand; 1961-1972; The heart of the Vietnam War‚ and the U.S. needs an advantage. “[The military] sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam...Agent Orange‚ which contained the chemical dioxin‚ was the most commonly used of the herbicide mixtures‚ and the most effective‚” (“Agent”). In total‚ this agent accounted for 11-13 million gallons of the total herbicides released. Agent Orange was later found to be the origin of various health
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การประยุกต์ใช้เทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศเชิงภูมิศาสตร์และเทคนิคทางการวิจัยดำเนินงานในการกำหนดเส้นทางรถจัดเก็บขยะ An Application of GIS and Operations Research for Vehicle Routing in Solid Waste Collection โพธิ์งาม รัตนโชติ Po-ngarm Ratanachote Industrial Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Naresuan University‚ Maung District‚ Phitsanuloke 65000 Tel: 0 5526 1000 ext. 4200‚ Fax: 0 5561 000 ext. 4254‚ Email: po_ngarm@hotmail.com บทคัดย่อ งานวิจัยนี้นำเสนอวิธีการหาเส้นทา
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