In any applied field, such as OM, most tools are, or should be, multivariate.
Unless a problem is treated as a multivariate problem in these fields, it is
treated superficially. Therefore multivariate analysis (simultaneous analysis of
more than two variables) is, and will continue to be, very important in OM.
Table XI presents some of the more established techniques as well as some of
the emerging ones (for more details see H