The emphasis will be on developing the students' understanding of important issues and techniques in production and operations. This will be accomplished by motivating the theory, illustrating it with examples, and by having the students carefully solve selected homework problems. Silver, E., Pike, D., and Peterson, R. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling. Pinedo, M. Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Prentice Hall, 1995. The solvers available with QuattroPro or Excel spreadsheets are adequate for our purposes.
Exercises are due one week after they are assigned.
Exercises can be done in teams of up to four students. Two hours and 30 minutes. Style Goods and Yield Management.