B. Defence service operations
Military principles lay greater importance on “economy of efforts” and the
“surprise” element to enemy forces. Some examples are given below:
• Development of new technology
• Optimisation of cost and time in defence projects
• Tender evaluation technology and equipment
• Siting and layout of defence factories
• Assessment of “threat-analysis” from the enemy
• Effective battle “strategies and tactics”
• Effective maintenance and replacement of equipment
• Strategy of defence supplies during war and peace
• Vendor evaluation of canteen stores departments.
• Inventory control
• Transportation problems during ‘mobilisation’, ‘operations’, ‘mock-simulation
exercises’
• Ideal locations of “supply depots” to support operational units
C. Industrial field OR is applied in a number of cases. Some are given here:
• Plant location and siting
• Finance planning
• Product and process planning
• Facility planning and construction of factory building and layout
• Purchasing, vendor evaluation and bid evaluation
• Inventory control
• Maintenance management and replacement
• Personnel management, viz. merit rating, incentive payments, etc.
D. R&D and engineering
• Technology forecasting
• Technology evaluation
• Technology management
• Project management of turnkey projects
• Systems evaluation
• Preparation of tender
• Negotiation
• Value engineering and selection of components
• Work Method study and activity sampling, etc.
E. Business management and competition
• Taking business decisions under risk and uncertainty
• Capital investment and returns.
• Selection of business and area of operations
• Decision-making under competition
• Business strategy formation
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Military principles lay greater importance on “economy of efforts” and the
“surprise” element to enemy forces. Some examples are given below:
• Development of new technology
• Optimisation of cost and time in defence projects
• Tender evaluation technology and equipment
• Siting and layout of defence factories
• Assessment of “threat-analysis” from the enemy
• Effective battle “strategies and tactics”
• Effective maintenance and replacement of equipment
• Strategy of defence supplies during war and peace
• Vendor evaluation of canteen stores departments.
• Inventory control
• Transportation problems during ‘mobilisation’, ‘operations’, ‘mock-simulation
exercises’
• Ideal locations of “supply depots” to support operational units
C. Industrial field OR is applied in a number of cases. Some are given here:
• Plant location and siting
• Finance planning
• Product and process planning
• Facility planning and construction of factory building and layout
• Purchasing, vendor evaluation and bid evaluation
• Inventory control
• Maintenance management and replacement
• Personnel management, viz. merit rating, incentive payments, etc.
D. R&D and engineering
• Technology forecasting
• Technology evaluation
• Technology management
• Project management of turnkey projects
• Systems evaluation
• Preparation of tender
• Negotiation
• Value engineering and selection of components
• Work Method study and activity sampling, etc.
E. Business management and competition
• Taking business decisions under risk and uncertainty
• Capital investment and returns.
• Selection of business and area of operations
• Decision-making under competition
• Business strategy formation
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