Goals:
This course examines what is perhaps the most critical element in managing the supply chain for manufactured products: managing the supply chain that is inside the manufacturing plant, its direct links to suppliers and its indirect links to customers.

Specifically, this course examines a Advanced Planning Systems (APS) for manufacturing companies, with a focus on the three most commonly implemented systems: MRP (material requirements planning), JIT/Lean (just-in-time), and DBR (Drum-Buffer-Rope), also known as constraint-based planning.

Features:
The course focuses on both the theory and practice of managing manufacturing.  The course delivery system includes readings, case studies, and computer exercises.  In addition recent offerings have included:

• In-class presentations by high-level managers from Dell Computer, Herman Miller (office furniture) Allison Transmission, Intel, Sanford (office supplies), and Delphi Electronics.
• Student team evaluations of various companies manufacturing strategy and the capability of its manufacturing planning and central systems to support this strategy.
• A Student-Team Project to Design and implement a multi-product JIT system.

Job Titles that Involve Topics Studied:

• Manufacturing/Production Manager
• Master Scheduler
• Materials Manager
• Supply-Chain Manager

Faculty

Suresh Chand: Scheduling and production planning for multiperiod production inventory problems with varying demand forecasts.

Maqbool Dada: Inventory systems, pricing models, service systems, and international operations management.

Vinayak Deshpande: Supply Chain Coordination, Service Parts Management, and Contingency Logistics Systems.

Joice Hu: Assistant Professor of Management.

Ananth Iyer: Analysis of the impact of promotions on logistics systems in the grocery industry and analysis of the impact of competitors on operational management models.

Shrikant Panwalkar: Visiting Professor

Leroy B. Schwarz: Supply-Chain Management, Manufacturing, E-Enterprise, and Operations Strategy.

James Ward: Inventory-distribution system design, planar location models, and interactive computing.

Svenja Sommer: Assistant Professor of Management.

Courses

MGMT 460: Operations Management

MGMT 462: Supply Chain Design, Planning and Control

MGMT 490: Logistics: Concepts and Models

MGMT 560: Manufacturing Planning & Control

MGMT 561: Logistics

MGMT 562: Project Management

MGMT 564: Management of Service Operations

MGMT 590D: Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

MGMT 590Y: E-Commerce & Supply Chain

MGMT 661: Management of Operations Systems

MGMT 663: Analysis and Improvement of Processes in Service
                   and Manufacturing Operations

MGMT 667: International Operations Management

MGMT 669: Operations: Practice & Models

MGMT 690A: Doctoral Topics in OM I

MGMT 690B: Workshop in OM

MGMT 690C: Doctoral Topics in OM II