COURSE #: Opns-430

(TMP)

SECTION: 71

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: 2nd Edition, 1992

 

TERM: Spring 0405

COURSE #: OPNS 430

SECTION: All

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR: Philipp Afeche, Sunil Chopra, Gilles Reinhardt, Canan Savaskan

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes - Two parts. Part I is common and Part II is different by instructor

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR: R. Anupindi, S. Chopra, S. Deshmukh, J. van Mieghem, E. Zemel

PUBLISHER: Pearson Prentice Hall

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

INSTRUCTOR: Savaskan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : YES

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

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED

AUTHOR: C. Albright and W. Winston

PUBLISHER: Duxbury Press

TITLE: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications

ED./DATE: 2005

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