After a description of British Coal's method of organizing purchase contracts and consequent requirements for evaluating tenders, reference is made to the use of linear programming to allocate business. The later part of the paper describes the development and operation of a user-friendly, menu-driven microcomputer decision-support system for tender evaluation called INSECT, which uses a purpose-built, quasi-optimizing routine rather than linear programming.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Ian R. Turner (1988) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched one closely related paper. Consider it for comparative context: