Operational Research Project on Quantitative Techniques

Description
‘Operation’ implies some action applied to any area of interest and ‘Research’ means some organized process of getting information about the problem environment.

Operational Research- I
BBM- 308

Quantitative Techniques
Operational Research
DEFINITION
? Operation research is a scientific
approach to problems solving for
management.

? ‘Operation’ implies some action
applied to any area of interest and
‘Research’ means some organized
process of getting information about
the problem environment.
MODELS
ANALOGUE DETERMINISTIC
ICONIC PROBABILISTIC
SYMBOLIC COMBINED
HEURISTIC
? ICONIC (PHYSICAL) MODEL?
- Pictorial representation
- Look like real thing
- Concrete, special, easily under stable
- Ex.? toy aero plane, photograph, globe etc.

? ANALOGUE (SCHEMATIC) MODEL?
- No look alike aspect
- Properties are used to represent
- Ex.? map, organizational chart.

? DETERMINISTIC MODEL?
- All parameters are fixed
- Ex.? linear programming model.

? SYMBOLIC (MATHEMATICAL) MODEL?
- Mathematical symbols and functions are used
- Abstract and more useful
- Communication is clearer

? COMBINED ANALOGUE AND MATHEMATICAL MODEL?
- Use of mathematical models

? HEURISTIC MODEL?
- Use rules and guidelines
- Solve problems on basis of past experience
- Creativity and experience

? PROBABILISTIC MODEL?
- Used in situations where consequences cannot be predicted
- Also known as- stochastic or chance models
- Ex ? waiting lines

APPROACHES
? METHODICAL APPROACH?
- Based on scientific methods, principles,
tools, techniques for solving a problem
- Obtaining optimal results
- Systematic method

? OBJECTIVE APPROACH?
- Ensures desirability for the organization profitability

? WHOLISTIC APPROACH?
- Every aspect of the problem is studied.
SIGNIFICANCE
? Provides solution for various business problems?
- Profit maximization
- Cost minimization

? Helps in planning?
- Depends on demands
- Develop scientific basis

? Provides help in optimum resource allocation?
- Allocates resources
- Adopted by modern managements
LINEAR
PROGRAMMING
RATIO
METHOD
SIMPLEX
METHOD
WAITING
LINE
GAME
THEORY
TECHNIQUES
? LINEAR PROGRAMMING?
- Mathematical device
- Optimum use of resources
- Enhance the profitability
- Important techniques for optimization

? GAME THEORY?
- Develop during world war II by Jon
Von Newmann
- Two competitors, two opponents
- Efforts are put up
- Maximize the profits and minimize the
loses
? WAITING LINE OR QUEING THEORY?
- Most difficult to apply
- Minimizes the waiting time
- Reduces the total cost of time
- Ex ? grocery stores, medicine stores, railway stations, banks,
cinema halls.

? SIMPLEX METHOD?
- Used to find the optimum solution of business problems
- Ex ? industries, banks, financial institutions.
- Also known as ‘iterative method’ ? maximum or minimum
value of objective function will be arrived through repetitive
drawls of ‘simplex tables’.

? RATIO METHOD OF ANALYSIS?
- Obtained by dividing one number into another
- Used by management for planning, organizing, controlling,
coordination
- Accurate and used effectively.

APPLICATIONS
AGRICULTURE
MINING
MEDICAL
BANKS
PLANNING
INDUSTRIES
BUSINESS
COSTLY
OPERATION
COMBINING TWO
OR MORE
FUNCTIONS
INTERNAL
RESISTANCE
PRACTICAL
APPLICATION
LIMITATIONS
THANK YOU

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