... warehouse or new plant, distribution centres and retail outlets. - Logistics, Layout and Engineering design. - Transportation planning and scheduling - Allocation R&D budgets most effectively - Project scheduling and allocation of resources Personnel Management:- - Manpower planning, Wage/Salary administration - Negotiation in a bargaining situation - Designing organization structures effectively - Skills and Wages balancing - Scheduling of training programmes Techninques & General Management:- - Decision Support System and MIS forecasting - Making quality control more effective - Project management and Strategic planning Government:- - Economic planning natural resources - Urban and housing problems - Military, Police and Pollution control..etc. Limitations of O.R. The main reason for Ors' failure are due to unawareness on the part of decision makers about their own role, as well as avoiding the behavioral organization issues while constructing decision model. Some limitations:- 1. Often solutions to a problem is derived either by making it simplified or simplifying the assumptions thus such solutions have limitation. 2. Sometimes model do not represent the realistic situation ...

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