Operations Research category: 1119 books
A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare
What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
In A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare, Dwight McNeill shows healthcare analysts and decision-makers exactly how to adapt and apply the best analytics techniques from retail, finance, politics, and sports. McNeill describes each method in depth, presenting numerous case studies that show...
Systems Thinking: From Heresy to Practice
Public and Private Sector Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Systems Thinking is a topic which is at the forefront of how we think about management in the Public Sector and Service Industries. This collection from leading thinkers in the field takes a case study approach to a variety of issues which encompass topics such as Banking, Electrical Distribution, Manufacturing and Adult Social Care.
by G. Tomas M. Hult, David Closs, David Frayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
LEVERAGE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT
Do you have a global supply chain strategy designed for the long run?
About 90 percent of global demand is not fully met by local supply, and global supply chains will soon account for 25 percent of multinational firms' performance--meanwhile, supply...
Supply Chain Strategies
Demand Driven and Customer Focused
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Supply Chain Strategies demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy.
Whereas many textbooks on supply chain management focus on purchasing and operations, this new edition of Tony Hines'...
Retail Analytics
Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scanner systems can be used to improve inventory decisions, and develops a data-driven approach that integrates demand forecasting and inventory management...
E-Logistics and E-Supply Chain Management
Applications for Evolving Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Business models rely on the development and use of technologies in logistics and supply chain management in order to continually improve business processes. E-Logistics and E-Supply Chain Management: Applications for Evolving Business explores the creation of integrated supply chains, the developments...
Integrating Renewables in Electricity Markets
Operational Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This addition to the ISOR series addresses the analytics of the operations of electric energy systems with increasing penetration of stochastic renewable production facilities, such as wind- and solar-based generation units.
As stochastic renewable production units become ubiquitous throughout...
Publish or Perish
Scheduling Challenges in the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to manage the complex book publishing process from manuscript through printing and shipping, keeping projects on time to meet the industry's crucial spring and fall seasons. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many...
Capacity and Inventory Planning for Make-to-Order Production Systems
The Impact of a Customer Required Lead Time Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The book presents different models for the simultaneous optimization problem of capacity investment and work release rule parameterization. The overall costs are minimized either including backorder costs or considering a service level constraint. The available literature is extended with the integration...
Periodic Review Inventory Systems
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inventory Systems within Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
The focus of the work is twofold. First, it provides an introduction into fundamental structural and behavioral aspects of periodic review inventory systems. Second, it includes a comprehensive study on analytical and optimization aspects of a specific class of those systems. For the latter purpose,...
Electronic Commerce
A Managerial and Social Networks Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Throughout the book, theoretical foundations necessary for understanding Electronic Commerce (EC) are presented, ranging from consumer behavior to the economic theory of competition. Furthermore, this book presents the most current topics relating to EC as described by a diversified team of experts...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Business practices are constantly evolving in order to meet growing customer demands. By implementing fresh procedures through the use of new technologies, organizations are able to remain competitive and meet the expectations of their customers. Designing and Implementing Global Supply Chain Management...
Management Strategies
A Critique of Theories and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The wide range of possible performance criteria for business enterprises raises serious questions of definition and measurement. Indeed, measurement is at the heart of the analysis of success and failure of business operations, and much depends on the quality of the information that is available....
by Matthew J. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to optimize safety stock levels for a fashion company, where consumer demand is exceptionally hard to forecast, and inventory planning is extremely difficult. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many industries...