operations management





Operations management is the administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization. It is concerned with converting materials and labor into goods and services as efficiently as possible to maximize the profit of an organization.

Evaluation of pacesetter: Lean senior leadership and operational management , within HMRC Processing
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4.1 Perceptions and Understanding of Pacesetter 4.2 Perceptions and Understanding of Lean 4.3 Perceptions and Understanding of OM/SL 4.4 Links between Lean and OM/SL 4.5 Raising Awareness/Communication 4.6 Summary 5.1 Interviewee involvement during the implementation

Reinforcement learning in the operational management of a water system
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In this paper we present a variant of the classic Q-learning algorithm to design an operating policy for the management of a multi-purpose water reservoir. The model-free approach is applied only to a part of the model of the water system, the catchment, while the remainder

Using the expert systems in the operational management of production
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In the conditions of computing the human society, the operational management activities can be improved by using artificial intelligence. The expert system is an intelligent system based on the symbolic representation of knowing, implemented on 2 hardware structure specific to

Object oriented approach and java-based distributed simulation for container terminal operational management
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In shipping port sector containers are the most dynamic and complex to manage. To provide adequate strategy for the increasing traffic, ports must either expand facilities or improve efficiency of operations. In investigating ways in which ports can improve efficiency, this

File size distribution model in enterprise file server toward efficient operational management
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Toward efficient operational management of enterprise file server, we propose an estimation method for relationship between file number and cumulative file size in descending order of file size based on a model for file size distribution. We develop the model by weighted

Virtual organization simulation for operational management
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This paper presents concept of the Decision Support System (DSS) for operationalmanagement of the Virtual Organizations (VO). It supports the VO manager by the VO rescheduling tool and a simulation of possible future performances of the VO. The

Using harmony search for optimising university shuttle bus driver scheduling for better operational management
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Managing human resource to achieve specific goal in an organisation is a crucial task. One of various aspects in managing human resource is preparing optimum scheduling to perform certain tasks. The main objective of this paper is to illustrate the preparation and the work of

Towards an initial operational management procedure for the krill fishery in Subareas 48. 48.2 and 48.3
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An operational management procedure for krill (Euphausia superba) in Subareas 48. 48.2 and 48.3 requires a basis for the assessment of resource status, and an algorithm for specifying the levels of regulatory mechanisms (eg, a catch control law) that depends on the

Application of geographical information system in underground coal mine to assist operational management
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This research investigation aims to expand on a current Geographical Information System (Autodesk Map 3D 2007) at an underground coal mine in NSW (Metropolitan Colliery). The current GIS is only used for the sole purpose of producing ArcView shape files for the

Guidelines for the definition of operational management units
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The objective of fisheries management is the sustainable exploitation of the fish resources over the extent of their spatial distribution. Along with the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) objectives, the socio-economic viability of the fisheries exploiting the resource is also to be

GIS routing and modelling of residential waste collection for operational management and cost optimization
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In this paper, optimum routing was developed based on the travel salesman method and integrated in ArcInfo GIS using linear programming. The results of the optimized travel distances and times for residential waste collection and routing to disposal site were used to

The 2010 stock assessment of red rock lobsters (Jasus edwardsii) in CRA and development of an operational management procedure
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This document describes work conducted under Objective 4 of the MFish contract CRA2009- 01. This contract, a three-year contract that began in April 20 was awarded to the New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council Ltd.(NZ RLIC Ltd), who subcontracted this objective

An operational management procedure for the Tristan da Cunha rock lobster fishery
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This document provides full background on the OMP selected in 2013 for providing recommendations for annual TACs for the rock lobster resource at the Tristan da Cunha island. The contents include the specifics of the OMP formula itself, and the results from the

Application of a cell model for operational management of the Naaman groundwater basin, Israel.
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A Regional Cell Model is employed herein to study the Naaman groundwater basin in northwestern Israel. The Naaman basin is drained mainly by the Naaman spring and is subjected to salination by a deep-seated saline end member. The cell model is of a data

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND BALANCED SCORECARD IN THE INTEGRATION OF NORMATIVE, STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT .
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Taking into consideration the problems of strategy implementation, as well as problems of external adaptation and internal integration in the enterprise, through the prism of the application of advanced management concepts, primarily-the quality management system

Operational management procedures for New Zealand rock lobster stocks (Jasus edwardsii) in
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The red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) supports the most valuable inshore commercial fishery in New Zealand, with exports worth NZ $268 million in 2015 (Seafood New Zealand 2016), and is also valuable to customary Maori and recreational fishers. The commercialMy interest in operational risk can be traced back to the ten years or so I spent in investment banking before I took the heroic decision to move to academia. That was during the 1980s when the termoperational risk had not yet surfaced. In hindsight, however, I do realize that

An operational management system for river flows
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The introduction of the Kalman filter in hydrological modelling has started a flow of new developments, particularly in real-time river flow forecasting. These developments have not contributed to the closure of the gap between theory and practice so far. This paper

Towards a realtime Twitter analysis during crises for operational crisis management
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Todays crises attract great attention on social media, from local and distant citizens as well as from news media. This study investigates the possibilities of real-time and automated analysis of Twitter messages during crises. The analysis was performed through application

Operational security management in violent environments
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This is the outcome of a training-oriented research and research-oriented training project, in collaboration with a wide range of individuals from the main types of humanitarian organisations (UN, Red Cross movement, NGOs, think-tanks). Its primary target audience