|Format: Hardcopy Black & White|
|Also Available In:||English PDF English Hardcopy Black & White Spanish PDF|
|List Price: $7.46||Source: Harvard Business School|
|Publication Date: Mar 24, 1989||Product #: 109S12-HCB-SPA|
|Discipline: Economics||Length: 4 p, Spanish Hardcopy Black & White|
Introduces some of the key concepts in linear programming--problem formulation, relevant costs, shadow prices, and reduced costs. The setting, while artificial, is quite typical: a company manufactures two models of trucks in four manufacturing departments; it must determine the "optimal" production mix given information on selling price, production costs, and manufacturing capacity requirements.
Decision making; Linear programming; Manufacturing; Manufacturing strategy; Production; Solving business problems