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Production and distribution problems have historically been a major category of research in Operations Research. Yet, applications of OR/MS methods in production and distribution practice remain limited and OR/MS groups are not thriving in industry. The reason may be in the way problems are approached in practice, which then has consequences for modelling and solution methods. Perhaps a slightly different perspective for OR/MS could lead to significantly greater successes in applications to production and distribution problems.
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Karmarkar, U.S., Simon, W.E. (1994). New Directions in Modelling Production and Distribution Problems. In: Operations Research Proceedings 1993. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 1993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78910-6_2
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