| COURSE #: Opns-430 (TMP) |
SECTION: 71 |
COURSE NAME: Operations Management |
| INSTRUCTOR: Baris Ata |
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| CASEPACKET (YES or NO?): Yes |
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| 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. |
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| 1. TEXT-- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED? Required |
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| AUTHOR: Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem & Zemel |
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall |
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| TITLE: Managing Business Flow Process Flows |
ED./DATE: Second Edition 2005 |
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| 2. TEXT -- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED? Required |
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| AUTHOR: Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox |
PUBLISHER: North River Press |
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| TITLE: The Goal |
ED./DATE: 2nd Edition, 1992 |
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| TERM: Spring 0405 |
COURSE #: OPNS 430 |
SECTION: All |
COURSE NAME: Operations Management |
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| INSTRUCTOR: Philipp Afeche, Sunil Chopra, Gilles Reinhardt, Canan Savaskan |
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| CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes - Two parts. Part I is common and Part II is different by instructor |
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| FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1 |
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| IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: Yes |
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| 1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required |
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| AUTHOR: R. Anupindi, S. Chopra, S. Deshmukh, J. van Mieghem, E. Zemel |
PUBLISHER: Pearson Prentice Hall |
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| TITLE: Managing Business process Flows |
ED./DATE: 2nd edition, 2006 copyright |
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COURSE:OPNS 450 |
SECTIONS: 71 |
COURSE NAME: Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis for Managerial Decisions |
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| INSTRUCTOR: Savaskan |
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| CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : YES |
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| FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 1. Review your basic Excel skills as listed in “Essential Excel” in the case packet, and test yourself by developing a spreadsheet for the “Balance Sheet Construction” example therein. 2. Download all Excel files from the “Essential Excel” folder from the course website. 3. Download the “Formula List” add-in from the “Excel Add-ins” folder on the course website and save it on your laptop in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Library. First Class Session is Mandatory |
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| 1. TEXT -- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED |
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| AUTHOR: C. Albright and W. Winston |
PUBLISHER: Duxbury Press |
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| TITLE: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications |
ED./DATE: 2005 |
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