Inventory management systems - Strategic Planning: facilities design - general discrete location - allocation problems - Facility location - analysis and models.
Tactical Planning - Aggregate production planning and models - Operational control - Inventory management - EOQ decision rules – cost model in inventory system - EOQ decision rules - EOQ for multiple items under constraints - ABC analysis - review systems.
Operations Scheduling and Assembly Line Balancing - Project Scheduling.
MRP I, MRP-II and ERP.
JIT, kanban system, Quality management - SPC - Taguchi method - quality circles – ANOVA– Lean Manufacturing.
REFERENCES
1) H.G. Menon,, “TQM in New Product Manufacturing”, Mc Graw Hill, 1992.
2) Hax and Candea., “Production and Inventory Management”, Prentice Hall, 1984.
3) Buffa., “Modern Production Management”, John Welley, 1983.
