Saravanan Venkadasalam

(Malaysian Maritime Academy, Melaka, Malaysia)

 

 

Abstract: This field seeks to find out whether the linear programming application able to assist higher learning institutions in allocating sufficient resources and maximise the available facilities to carry the educational program at cost effectively. Local private higher institution from the Melaka state was studied by applying the linear programming method to copy the needed resources for the coming semester. The PHP simplex, Management Science 6.0 and Mathlab R2013b software are utilised to simulate the optimal outcomes. The outcome indicates that the resource usage in private higher institution able to optimize by using linear programming. This study is only focusing on the enterprise resource planning. The supply chain management and customer relationship management which is division of enterprise resource planning was dropped out.

 

Key words: linear programming; enterprise resources planning; higher learning institution

JEL codes: C61