After sales service is a major source of competitive advantage for the firms in current business environment. The quality of the service depends on a number of factors among which availability of spare parts at the service centers is the most critical. It is very difficult to maintain the desired inventory of spare parts due to the increasing product complexity and variety. The variation in dem...

Statistical operations are often facilitated by other operations. We can facilitate modeling operations by testing their input for irregularities and removing problems wherever possible. A planning representation is well-suited to this task. We describe the representation used in Igor, a system for exploratory data analysis, and its integration with two modeling systems, Pearl's IC and Cohen's ...

s of papers 47 follow manner. Rules for Animal Feeding Operations have been recently enforced and will require adoption of appropriate Best Management Practices (BMP’s), which includes Nutrient Management Planning for all operations where animals are raised in confinement according to regulatory definition. Nutrient management is necessary for agricultural production systems to protect air, soi...

Background Good drug regulation requires an effective system for monitoring and inspection of manufacturing and sales units. In India, despite widespread agreement on this principle, ongoing shortages of drug inspectors have been identified by national committees since 1975. The growth of India’s pharmaceutical industry and its large export market makes the problem more acute.   Methods The foc...

this paper presented a mixed integer programming for integrated scheduling and process planning. the presented process plan included some orders with precedence relations similar to multiple traveling salesman problem (mtsp), which was categorized as an np-hard problem. these types of problems are also called advanced planning because of simultaneously determining the appropriate sequence and m...

This article presents empirical tests to examine if the comprehensive development area (CDA) where the town planning is more comprehensive has relatively higher economic values than the area outside CDA. The three hypothesis are: (i) CDAs have less environmental complaints than areas outside CDA; (ii) property sales price variances in CDAs are smaller than those in areas outside CDAs; and (iii)...