Marketing Applications of Operational Research Techniques

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.

Citation

Meidan, A. (1981), "Marketing Applications of Operational Research Techniques", Management Decision, Vol. 19 No. 4/5, pp. 3-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001276