BWW solicited the assistance of a team North Carolina State University engineers to help them save time and money by analyzing their MRAP manufacturing operations and recommending a plan that would demonstrate their ability to meet a possible output of 4100 vehicles per year for 5 years....

In this thesis, three procurement policies (Backup Policy, Blend Policy, and Partial Order Policy) are considered and evaluated using a Discrete Time Markov Decision Process. The following factors were analyzed: retailer's demand distribution, holding cost, purchasing cost and supplier's...

Approximately 50% of the households in America invest in the stock market. In many cases the investor's buy and hold strategy leads to negative returns. Given the stock market fluctuates up and down as time progresses, analysts examine stock prices, volumes traded and ratios to recommend buy and...