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by wheelinsupial 781 days ago
There is the Franz Edelman award from INFORMS [1] that used to publish accessible articles about how OR techniques are being used in industry.

The MIT LGO program has some theses published online that show how OR techniques are applied at smaller scale in industry.

I’ve been involved in some smaller scale projects that used mathematical programming techniques to help with scheduling manufacturing lines and call center shifts. We’ve used simulation to help understand how improvements can be made in call centers and warehouses.

Lots of this stuff is under industrial engineering at the operational level.

At the supply chain level, often a company is using the services of someone else. Sometimes they’ll have industrial engineers working with these techniques.

[1] https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prize...