“Decision Simulators” Speed Implementation and Improve Operations

Mark R. Lembersky and Uli H. Chi
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Mark R. Lembersky: Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington 98477
Uli H. Chi: Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington 98477

Interfaces, 1984, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: Packaging MS/OR models and algorithms in “Decision Simulators” (DS) helps users accept model performance and solutions, making implementation more likely and more rapid. Like video games and flight simulators, a DS emphasizes a believable representation of the decision-making environment, user interaction with immediate feedback on the effect of decisions, and ease of use. A decision simulator was put in practice in 1977 at Weyerhaeuser to implement a dynamic programming approach to improved timber processing. The simulator allows users (either timber buckers or management) to test different crosscutting and log-allocating decisions for economic value. This application continues to yield a multi-million dollar annual profit increase.

Keywords: decision analysis: systems; industries: lumber/wood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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