A small team of operational researchers in the South West of the UK is helping the NHS make evidence-based decisions to ensure that small and large-scale changes have the intended outcomes.
With freight traffic expected to increase by 40%, the Port of Dover partnered with the University of Kent Business School to model current and future traffic flows with the aim of reducing queues, improving resource use and saving funds.
Stronger inventory management at steel distributor and processing company John Parker & Son
Air New Zealand Masters the Art of Crew Scheduling
The Brakes Group is a leading supplier to the UK catering industry. There is constant pressure on margins and a need to increase efficiency throughout the supply chain.
Most people would imagine the only link between bees and ambulances is an especially bad bee sting. However, in Brazil's largest and most traffic-plagued city the relationship is something quite different - and far more beneficial.
Faced with an extremely complex scheduling process at their heat treatment facility in Trollhättan, Sweden, managers at GKN Aerospace turned to the OR community for help. What resulted was a business-transforming tool.
Operational Research has solved historic unfairness in the South America’s Qualifying Tournament for FIFA’s 2018 World Cup by balancing the schedule, which in turn improved the tournament, reduced costs and raised revenue.
One of the biggest and most complex decisions any airline faces is replacing parts of the fleet. The driver for the latest decision was the need to replace the 747 fleet which is advancing in years.
One of the leading hospitals in the USA, the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Centre in Los Angeles, has used operational research to effectively manage costs at its operating room suites, saving millions of dollars a year.
Italian company Herambiente S.p.A. applied OR to its core business and created ‘OptiWasteFlow’, a Decision Support System (DSS) to improve accuracy of the planning process and obtain more cost-efficient solutions.
Losing tens of millions of dollars every year in scheduling penalties, an industrial transport company, The Noble Group, turns to operational research to optimise their supply chain.
The National Police Air Service used operational research modelling techniques to optimise the location of bases, response times and use of its aircraft to achieve a 14% budgetary saving.
Each night, Menzies Distribution processes approximately 1,500 tonnes of newspapers and magazines through 36 depots, and then out to over 21,000 retail premises throughout the UK.
Delivering Rapid Restoration Capacity for the AT&T Network.
HealthShare NSW, which operates a Patient Transport Service, asked operational researchers to explore resourcing options for reducing the use of alternative service providers to significantly reduce costs.
Algorithms developed by University of Glasgow researchers led to more than 200 extra kidney transplants between 2008 and 2017 – saving the NHS around £52 million over a ten year period.
Success or failure in a business setting often depends on understanding how all kinds of factors develop and interact - not just at any given moment but over months, years or even decades.
3663 is the UK's leading food service wholesale distributor and provides a highly flexible delivery service to 53,000 customers from 38 depots.