ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

SM60.66 Operations Management, 2(2-0) Semester: January 2013 Class Plan

No. Date Topic Assignment and Reading 1 15-Jan Overview

What is operations management Planning and issues in operations management Case: Class case, KT Production Forecasting Forecast characteristics and its role in operations

management

Read Heizer, chapter 1

2 22-Jan Forecasting (cont.) Forecasting techniques

Read Heizer, chapter 4 HW: Heizer 4.9, 4.19, KT (Forecasting)

3 29-Jan Product development Product development Issues for product design Capacity Plan Investment timing analysis Decision trees to capacity decisions Quiz 01

Read Heizer, p190 p200 Read Heizer, p329 p333 HW: Heizer S7.28, KT (Capacity plan)

4 05-Feb Facility location Factors that affect location decisions Center of gravity method Service location (reading assignment) Case: FedEx (in text)

Read Heizer, p347 p351 Read Heizer, p354 p360 HW: Heizer 8.23 (a, b)

5 12-Feb Inventory management Basics in inventory management Economic order quantity (EOQ) models Quiz 02

Read Heizer, p498 p519 HW: Heizer 12.13 (a, b, c, d, e)

6 19-Feb

Aggregate planning Role in operations planning Aggregate planning strategy Aggregate planning methods Aggregate planning in services (reading

assignment) Operations planning game

Read Heizer, p542 p559 HW: KT (Aggregate planning)

7 26-Feb (Make-up)

Materials requirement planning Role in operations planning MRP process Lot-sizing techniques Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Read Heizer, p576 p593 Read Heizer, p597 p600 HW: Heizer 14.19

8 05-Mar

Short-term scheduling Role in operations planning Sequencing rules Quality management

Read Heizer, p626 p628 HW: Heizer 15.13

Defining quality Total quality management Quiz 03

9 12-Mar Case Discussion: Toyota Recalls Just-in-time and lean production

Read Heizer, p220 p231 Read Heizer, p652 p669

10 19-Mar Written exam

Note: The homework (HW) assignments must be submitted in a hard copy in the following class after the

assignment is assigned (refer to the class plan table above) by 13:15. Quizzes will be given generally at the beginning of the class

o For an absentee (for any reason) for a quiz, there will not be a make-up quiz. The grade will be automatically given by the lowest grade among all the quizzes that the student take. Note that only one absentee is allowed.

Grade allocation

1. Assignment a. Homeworks (individual) (20%) b. Toyota recall (10%)

2. Quizzes 20% 3. Written exam 50%