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Introduction & Course objective

Every organization must make a product or provide a service that someone values.  The purpose of a firm is to satisfy a customer need profitably. The operations function is the collection of people, technology and system within an organization that has primary responsibility for providing the organization’s products or services.    Most organizations function as a part of a larger supply chain.  A supply chain is a network of manufacturers and/or service providers that work together to create products or services needed by the end user (or end customer).  Organizations must carefully manage their operations and supply chains in order to prosper. 

The objective of this course is to enable students to become better managers, particularly if they find themselves working in operations and supply chain management.  A sizable part of the U.S. and international workforce is employed in operations and supply chain jobs.  These jobs are important and challenging and can lead to successful and rewarding careers. To achieve that objective, students should strive for these goals:  first, to gain a thorough understanding of what operations and supply managers do in manufacturing and service firms.  Second, to learn how to use some of the tools and techniques that operations managers use in making decisions.  Finally, students will discover the excitement that makes this a vibrant, dynamic, and rapidly changing field, and the challenges facing those who manage the operations function in service and manufacturing organizations. 

Learning Outcomes

Students taking this course can expect to achieve the following learning outcomes:

1. Understand the purpose of the firm from a supply chain perspective
2. Understand strategy formulation at both the firm and supply chain functional levels
3. Understand various manufacturing and service process choices and how those choices are influenced by the product/service being provided
4. Know how to conduct a line balancing analysis
5. Know how to read and create business process maps
6. Understand and know how to use various quality management tools
7. Understand the role of capacity in supply chain operations and be able to use mathematical tools (e.g. break-even analysis, expected value analysis) in making capacity investment decisions
8. Understand the Theory of Constraints and know the five-step approach in dealing with constraints
9. Understand the strategic sourcing process and how effective purchasing can support the supply chain functional strategy and ultimately the firm strategy
10. Understand the key consideration factors in conducting a make vs. buy analysis
11. Understand the portfolio analysis matrix and its applicability to establishing a purchasing strategy
12. Know how to use the weighted-point evaluation system to conduct a supplier evaluation
13. Understand the different modes of transportation used to move product within a supply chain and know the pros/cons of each mode
14. Understand the various roles of warehouses within a supply chain
15. Know how to measure logistics performance
16. Understand how total landed cost is calculated
17. Know how to use the weighted center of gravity method to identify the “best” location for a single plant/warehouse/store
18. Understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative forecasting methods
19. Know how to calculate a forecast using the following quantitative methods: last period, moving average, weighted moving average, exponential smoothing
20. Know to measure and assess forecast accuracy
21. Understand the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process
22. Know how to generate an S&OP plan for both level and chase production strategies
23. Understand the role of different types of inventory in establishing effective supply chains
24. Know how to calculate appropriate inventory levels and reorder points for both periodic and continuous review systems
25. Understand and know how to calculate economic order quantity (EOQ)
26. Know how to calculate an appropriate safety stock level given defined variability of supply and demand
27. Understand and know how to calculate target service levels and inventory levels for single-period inventory systems
28. Understand and be able to create a master schedule analysis
29. Understand and be able to create an MRP schedule for ordering parts from a supplier
30. Understand lean and just-in-time (JIT) philosophies as they pertain to supply chain management
31. Understand how a kanban systems works and be able to calculate the appropriate number of kanban cards needed for a given system
32. Understand the basics of project management and the product development process

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