Other Planning

Techniques

• QUEUING LINE OR WAITING LINE

• INVENTORY
• TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS
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• OPERATIONS RESEARCH MAED-EM
GIVE ME TWO WORDS THAT YOU CAN ASSOCIATE WITH THE
PICTURE
Queuing line or waiting line

•It deals with issue of treatment of

customers to reduce the waiting
time and improving the service
Give me two items that you want your school to
procure this month using your school’s MOOE
 Inventory

• It involves forecasting demand and deciding

exactly how much inventory and when to
order. When done successfully, this helps
companies meet demand whilst reducing
expenditure. 
 Transportation Problem

•It deals with the transportation of a

single product manufactured at
different plants (supply origins) to a
number of different warehouses (demand
destinations). 
 Assignment Problem

• It is a special type of linear programming

problem where the objective is to minimize
the cost or time of completing a number of
jobs by a number of persons.
 • Press Printing wants to find the minimum total
assignment 3 jobs to 3 typesetters.

JOBS A B C
R-34 P 550.00 P 700.00 P 300.00

S-66 P 400.00 P 500.00 P 550.00

T-50 P 450.00 P 600. 00 P 350.00

STEP 1. SUBTRACT SMALLEST NUMBER IN
EACH ROW FROM EVERY NUMBER IN A ROW
 JOBS A B C
R-34 P 200. 00 P 400. 00 P0

S-66 P0 P 100.00 P 150.00

T-50 P 100.00 P 250.00 P0

STEP 2. SUBTRACT SMALLEST NUMBER IN EACH
COLUMN FROM EVERY NUMBER IN A COLUMN
JOBS A B C

R-34 P 200.00 P 300.00 P0

S-66 P0 P0 P 150.00

T-50 P 100.00 P 150.00 P0

STEP 2. DRAW A VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
LINES TO COVER ALL THE ZEROES.
STEP 3. SUBTRACT THE SMALLEST UNCOVERED
NUMBER FROM EVERY OTHER UNCOVERED NUMBER
AND ADD IT TO THE NUMBER AT THE INTERSECTION

SMALLEST
UNCOVERED
NUMBER
JOBS A B C

R-34 P 100.00 P 200 P0

S-66 P0 P0 P 250.00

T-50 P0 P 50 P0
 Operations Research

• It provides a scientific basis to the decision-makers

for solving the problems involving the interaction
of various components of organization, by
employing a team of scientists from different
disciplines, all working together for finding a
solution which is the best in the interest of the
organization as a whole.
APPLICATIONS OF
OPERATIONS
RESEARCH
1. Allocation and Distribution in
Projects

2. Production and Facilities

Planning

3. Marketing
4. Organization Behaviour

5. Finance

6. Research and Development

It is the proper
management of
inventory or stock
A.WAITING LINE
B.INVENTORY
C.TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM
Transportation model is to determine the
amount to be shipped from each source to
each destination so as to maintain the
supply and demand requirements at the
lowest transportation cost.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
One characteristic of it is that only
one job (or worker) is assigned to
one machine (or project).
A.INVENTORY
B. TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM
C. ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM
It involves the interaction of
various components of
organization, by employing a team
of scientists from different
disciplines.
A.INVENTORY
B. OPERATIONS RESEARCH
C. ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM
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