Data Analytics in Operations Management: A Review

@article{Mivsic2019DataAI,
  title={Data Analytics in Operations Management: A Review},
  author={Velibor V. Mivsi'c and Georgia Perakis},
  journal={SSRN Electronic Journal},
  year={2019}
}
Research in operations management has traditionally focused on models for understanding, mostly at a strategic level, how firms should operate. Spurred by the growing availability of data and recent advances in machine learning and optimization methodologies, there has been an increasing application of data analytics to problems in operations management. In this paper, we review recent applications of data analytics to operations management, in three major areas -- supply chain management… 
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