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- Title
What MS/OR Groups Do: Management Science Pays Off at International Paper Company.
- Authors
Falk, Patrick G.
- Abstract
In this column, Patrick C. Falk describes the impact of MS/OR at International Paper Company (IPCo.). To compete effectively and globally in the 1980s, IPCo. has taken advantage of strategic, tactical, and operational opportunities brought to full view by management science applications at corporate headquarters and in the field. A corporate operations research group, mandated to address problems of information technologies and logistics on a company-wide basis, was established in the late 1970s. Over a five-year period, the efforts of the group made possible a gradual closing of the gap between the opportunities created by technology and the way technology was being used. The result has been the application of an integrated logistics and marketing-oriented manufacturing system to problems in resource allocation, production scheduling, purchasing and inventory, and transportation management. Among other things, the system has helped optimize the use of company resources, provide the timely, relevant information management needs most to make better corporate decisions, and generate large payoffs for the corporation.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Paper Co.; INDUSTRIAL management; RESOURCE allocation; MANAGEMENT science; CORPORATE headquarters; INFORMATION technology
- Publication
Interfaces, 1988, Vol 18, Issue 2, p38
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.18.2.38