SPREADSHEETS AND OR MS MODELS - AN END-USER PERSPECTIVE/

In 1986, Bodily stated that practitioners could use spreadsheets to mo del management science/operations research (OR/MS) problems. We survey ed OR practitioners to determine the extent of implementation of these OR/MS problems in a spreadsheet environment and found that end users are solving OR/MS problems using spreadsheets across many functional a reas of business, though in varying degrees. Some areas show higher us e than others and spreadsheet models are being used to implement vario us OR tools in a pattern very similar to their use in the nonspreadshe et environment.