SCHEDULE AND COURSE ASSIGNMENTS (Summer I, 2004)

 

DATE

 

TOPIC

TEXT

READINGS

ASSIGNMENTS

 

May

26

Operations as a competitive weapon

Ch.

Porter

 

 

 

27

Operations Strategy

Ch. 2  and Ch. 3 (91-104)

Skinner

 

 

 

28

Quality Management

Ch. 5 (pp.193-202 and 221-227)

Stalk et al.

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

 

 

 

31

Statistical Process Control

Ch.  5 (pp.(202-221)

Garvin

 

 

June

1

Case Discussion (Hank Kolb)

 

Fisher

 

 

 

2

Supply Chain Management

Ch.9

 

#1 p. 233 (5,7,8,20)

 

 

3

Forecasting

Ch 13

 

 

 

 

4

Forecasting

 

 

 

 

 

7

Aggregate Planning

Ch. 14 (583-600)

 

#2 Deac Inc 1

 

 

8

Aggregate Planning

 

 

 

 

 

9

Test #1 (Covers 5/26-6/4 Incl Assignment #2)

 

 

 

 

 

10

Inventory Management

Ch. 15

 

#3 Deac Inc 2

 

 

11

Inventory Management

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

Master Production Schedule

Ch. 16 (723-737)

 

#4 p. 697 (1,2,4,10,11,16)

 

 

15

Material Requirements Planning

Ch. 15 (737-751)

 

 

 

 

16

Material Requirements Planning

 

Spears and Bowen 

 #5 Deac Inc #3

 

 

17

Just-In-Time (lean Systems)

 Ch. 11

 

#6 Deac Inc 4

 

 

18

Case Discussion (Bose Corp JIT II Program (A))

 

 

 

 

 

21

Capacity

 Ch.6 (243-255)

 

 

 

 

22

Test #2 (Covers 6/7-6/18)

 

 

 

 

 

23

Case Discussion (Sensormatics)

 

 

 

 

 

24

Project Management

 Ch. 8

 

 

 

 

25

Project Management

 

 

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

28

Case Discusion (Nypro)

 

 

#7 p. 382 (3,10,15)

 

 

29

Location/Case Discussion (New Ballance)

Ch. 10 (441-455)