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Transportation & manufacturing

Several companies in the manufacturing and transportation industries prefer using Analytica for quantitative modeling. Key benefits are visual represented in models and allows for upper management to easily understand the logic around recommended changes for enhanced transparency. The representation of uncertainties with Monte Carlo simulation provides experienced analysts with a new modeling tool. Below are a few noteworthy examples.

Operations management practice: between supply chain & value chain

Is there anything in a business that is not covered by operations management practice? By definition, all of an enterprise’s internal processes are included: supply chain for ...

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Green decision analysis in manufacturing

At one time, manufacturing relied totally on deterministic decision analysis. Neither the PC nor Monte Carlo methods had been invented, but manufacturing decision processes were ...

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Decision analysis tools: outsourcing vs insourcing

Conventional business wisdom is currently that any non-core competence in an organization should be outsourced to an external supplier that is specialized in that competence. IT, ...

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The nuts & bolts of transportation modeling

Transportation modeling is one of the big applications of operations research methods. It lends itself to analysis using many of the techniques in OR and is also fundamental in ...

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How a 1979 MG Midget taught me to love risk analysis

At the tender age of 17 I sold my soul to a 1979 MG Midget. Or, at least I sold my body into indentured servitude to it.

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Transportation & manufacturing clients