A first model | Whole numbers | Many decisions at once | Reading the answer | What you can write in an expression | Where the solving happens | Writing a model as a pipe | Where to go next

The newsvendor | Optimizing the tail instead of the average | From observed history | What comes back

How much to stock | Random variables and scenarios | Planning for the average day | Meeting demand on 90% of days | Checking the answer on new scenarios | A safety margin | Several uncertain quantities | Planning for bad days | Putting a price on an event | Uncertainty from data | Other distributions | Solving again from an earlier answer | Summaries at a glance

A delivery of nothing, or of 10 to 25 units | Warehouses that supply several customers | Splitting into teams | More about these

A delivery route | Items and slots | The length of the route | Reading the answer | Uncertain travel times | An office plan | A lookup on its own | More about permutations