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Financial models

• Bond portfolio optimisation (XLS) 18.50 KB

  Minimise the amount of cash that should be allocated among all available bonds which will maintain the required cash inflow over a number of periods.  

• Optimal cash balance (XLS) 27.50 KB

  A Markov decision problem for moving funds between cash and an interest bearing account in order to minimise the average cost.  

Scheduling models

• Machine scheduling (xls) 38.50 KB

  Minimise the weighted tardiness when sequencing jobs on a machine from a given set of jobs. Each job has a processing time, due date and weight.  

• Personnel scheduling (XLS) 17.50 KB

  Minimise weekly payroll cost while meeting manpower requirements for a five-day shift  

Routing models

• Plant location problem (XLS) 18.00 KB

  Locate plants in such a way that demand is satisfied in each target city, potential plant capacity is not exceeded, and overall operating costs are minimised.  

Articles

• Choosing The Right Tool for Business and Engineering Improvements (pdf) 174.18 KB

  Need to minimise cost, maximise throughput, optimise design, model uncertainty or start other performance improvement projects? Adopting the wrong tool is quite common and often leads to mediocre results while requiring considerable effort.