A Structured Linear Programming Model in the Food Industry

An account is given of the experiences of building a highly structured linear programming model for aiding buying and operating decisions in the food industry. The practical and computational considerations of a model encompassing many aspects of a company are considered. A description is given of t...

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Published in:Operational Research Quarterly (1950) Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 517 - 527
Main Authors: Williams, H. P., Redwood, A. C.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Taylor & Francis 01.12.1974
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Pergamon Press
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Algorithms
Business and Management
Buying
Case-oriented Paper
Decision making models
Decomposition
Food processing industry
Linear programming
Management
Operating
Operations Research/Decision Theory
ISSN:0160-5682, 0030-3623, 1476-9360
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Summary:An account is given of the experiences of building a highly structured linear programming model for aiding buying and operating decisions in the food industry. The practical and computational considerations of a model encompassing many aspects of a company are considered. A description is given of the application of the Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition algorithm to the model. By taking account of the special structure of the model computational economies can be made in applying decomposition.
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ISSN:0160-5682
0030-3623
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/jors.1974.102