OR (BCOM 3rd)

UNIT-I

Operations Research: Nature, Scope, Methodology of operations research and role in

managerial decision making. Linear Programming: Formulation of problem and its solution

by Graphical and Simplex methods, Duality.

UNIT-II

Transportation Problems: Formulation, Optimal solution, Unbalanced Transportation

problem, Degeneracy. Assignment Problems: Formulation, Optimal solution, Variants of

Assignment Problems, Travelling Salesman problems

UNIT-III

Game Theory: Games with pure and mixed strategies, Saddle Point, Odds method, Principle

of dominance, Sub Games method, Equal gains method and LPP- Graphic Method

Sequencing Problems: Processing n jobs through two machines, Processing in jobs through

three machines.

UNIT–IV

Inventory Models – EOQ Models, Quantity Discount Models, Purchase inventory models

with One Price Break (Single Discount) and Multiple Discount breaks. Network Analysis:

PERT and CPM Model, difference between PERT and CPM, Computation of Critical Path,

Slack, Floats and Probability of project completion by a target date.