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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition
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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

by Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

Module B Rapid Review

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WHY USE ­LINEAR PROGRAMMING? (p. 700)
  • Linear programming (LP)—A mathematical technique designed to help ­operations managers plan and make decisions relative to allocation of ­resources.

Concept Questions: 1.1–1.4

VIDEO B.1

Scheduling Challenges at Alaska Airlines

REQUIREMENTS OF A ­LINEAR ­PROGRAMMING PROBLEM (p. 701)
  • Objective function—A mathematical expression in linear programming that maximizes or minimizes some quantity (often profit or cost, but any goal may be used).

  • Constraints—Restrictions that limit the degree to which a manager can pursue an objective.

All LP problems have four properties in common:

  1. LP problems seek to maximize or minimize some quantity. We refer ...

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ISBN: 9780134422404