The NBC television network, a subsidiary of the General Electric Company (GE), uses optimization-based sales systems to improve its revenues and productivity. GE’s corporate research and development center (CRD) developed these systems using operations research and management science techniques to improve NBC’s sales processes. These systems remove bottlenecks caused by manual development of sa...

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the eight years of the imposed war was full of successes and defeats, brilliant and bad memories. this holly defense taught us many valuable lessons. by the time this war was imposed, our country was recovering from the aftermaths of the revolution and the armed forces were not in perfect state. though, our armed forces accompanied with our brave people could stop the invaders. recapturing oper...

Business planning as well as analytics on top of large-scale database systems is valuable to decision makers, but planning operations known and implemented so far are very basic. In this paper we propose a new planning operation called interval disaggregate, which goes as follows. Suppose that the planner, typically the management of a company, plans sales revenues of its products in the curren...

Consider the problem of estimating the timing and magnitude of peak sales for a new consumer durable product which is infrequently purchased and initially has few replacement purchases (as compared to initial purchases) . In such a case typically the sales rate climbs to a peak over a period of years and then declines somewhat, with replacement purchases becoming a larger component of total sal...

Disclaimer The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle'...