Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

Linear Programming Applications

Student Tip

Now we look at three larger problems—ones that have more than two decision variables each and therefore are not graphed.

The foregoing examples each contained just two variables (X₁ and X₂). Most real-world problems (as we saw in the UPS OM in Action box) contain many more variables, however. Let’s use the principles already developed to formulate a few more-complex problems. The practice you will get by “paraphrasing” the following LP situations should help develop your skills for applying linear programming to other common operations situations.

Production-Mix Example

1. LO B.6 Formulate production-mix, ...