Assignment type problems consist in optimally assigning or allocating a given set of "activities" to a given set of "resources". Optimisation problems of the assignment type have numerous applications in production planning and logistics. A popular approach to solve such problems or to compute...

The supply chain of a section of an Indian electronic industry has been analysed and designed integrating suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and customers using lean principles. The models have been developed both at the strategic and operational level and integrated to achieve overall...

The overriding objective of the present work is to design and analyse the supply chain of a section of an existing electronics industry which is involved in the manufacturing of instruments to be used in communication and is presently unable to compete in the open market. The suppliers,...

This paper presents an application of optimization modeling to win a popular cycling game. The application involves real-life data of today's cyclists and challenges the students because of the competition aspect. Since the developed optimization model contains features of knapsack problems,...

The overriding objective of the present work is to design and analyse the supply chain of a section of an existing electronics industry which is involved in the manufacturing of instruments to be used in communication and is presently unable to compete in the open market. The suppliers,...

The supply chain of a section of an Indian electronic industry has been analysed and designed integrating suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and customers using lean principles. The models have been developed both at the strategic and operational level and integrated to achieve overall...