COURSE #: Opns-430

(TMP) 

SECTION: 71 -72

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR: Baris Ata

CASEPACKET (YES or NO?): Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Welcome to the first class of ops! Required materials are available at the bookstore.

1. Course Pack I: Cases, readings, and overhead slides
2. The Goal by Goldratt and Cox.
3. Textbook: MBPF by Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel.

Read: Textbook MBPF: Chapters 1 and 2

Start reading the Goal (There will be an assignment in class 9)

Read: Shouldice Hospital

            Wriston Corporation: The Detroit Plant

For the Shouldice case, consider the following questions:

1.       Model Shouldice Hospital as a processing operation with products, attributes and resources.

2.       What are Shouldice’s competitive priorities?  What kind of market have they chosen to focus on?  How does their operations strategy support their business strategy?

For the Wriston case, consider the following questions:

1.       Why do overhead costs (Exhibit 2) vary so greatly from plant to plant in Wriston’s manufacturing network?

2.       Why have managers in the Heavy Equipment Division under-invested in the Detroit Plant?

3.       What should Richard Sullivan do with the Detroit Plant?  Justify your recommendation.

1. TEXT-- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED? Required

AUTHOR: Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem & Zemel

PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall

TITLE: Managing Business Flow Process Flows

ED./DATE: Second Edition 2005

2.  TEXT  -- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED? Required

AUTHOR: Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER: North River Press

TITLE: The Goal

ED./DATE: 2^nd Edition, 1992

TERM:

Fall 07

COURSE #: 454

SECTIONs:

71

COURSE NAME:

Operations Strategy

INSTRUCTOR: Baris Ata

CASEPACK: YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Hand-in: a copy of your resume.  (This will help me getting to know you and learn about your experiences.)

Read:                             ·  Chapter 1 of Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice (in case pack)

Prepare:                         · Mini-Case 1: The Swiss Watch Industry, (at end of Ch 1 of Ops Strat)

You will have an opportunity to form groups during the first class and here are some guidelines. Groups should have five students.

1.  TEXT  --  RECOMMENDED

AUTHOR: J. A. Van Mieghem

PUBLISHER:

TITLE: Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice

ED./DATE: 2007

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE: