Resources

White Papers, Publications, & Video

Quantitative Risk Analysis for Animal Antibiotics. (Edelman Competition Finalist with Animal Health Institute and Cox Associates.)

                              Video Intro      Presentation

Controlling Order Circuity in Pickup and Delivery Problems. (White paper later published in Transportation Research)

CBA Back Room Study:  Recommendations to Save Time and Money.  (Power point summary of a study that modeled and analyzed retail bookstore B2B processes.)
Process Modeling and Simulation. (White Paper describing the basics on how to performs a process modeling and simulation study.)
Supply Chain Metrics for Dynamic Routing.  (White paper describing performance metrics for a unique logistics application.)
Tracking and Testing of US and Canadian Cattle Herds for BSE:  A Risk Management Dilemna. (Article describing a risk analysis study we collaborated upon.)
A Simulation-Optimization Approach to Air Warfare Planning.  (Published article describing an R&D project we performed for the US Air Force Research Laboratory.)
Trimming the Fat. (Summary of a series of process modeling projects done for US WEST using process simulation and principles from lean production.)
 

Some of our Favorite Tools

MATLAB- Mathematical and scientific programming environment
R- Open Source statistical analysis software
Simul8 - Simulation model development environment
MS Visual Studio (C#) - general programming and software development
MS Excel and VBA - application development
Gatherspace - Requirements management system
MindManager - Concept development and brainstorming
 
 

More Information on Operations Research/Management Science

Executive Guide to Operations Research

Institute for Operations Research & Management Science (INFORMS)

The Science of Better

Other Publications by Doug Popken 

Publication and Presentation Listwith links to sources (some are available upon request).