Marketing Applications of Operational Research Techniques
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Management Decision
- Vol. 19 (4/5) , 3-86
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001276
Abstract
Introduction Operations research, i.e. the application of scientific methodology to operational problems in the search for improved understanding and control, can be said to have started with the application of mathematical tools to military problems of supply bombing and strategy, during the Second World War. Post-war these tools were applied to business problems, particularly production scheduling, inventory control and physical distribution because of the acute shortages of goods and the numerical aspects of these problems.Keywords
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