TERM: Spring 2007

COURSE #:

Opns-430(TMP)

SECTION:  71 & 72

COURSE NAME:

Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR:  Wuqin Lin

CASEPACK - 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, Van Mieghem and Zemel.

 Read; Textbook MBPF: Chapters 1 and 2

Start reading the Goal (There will be an assignment in class 7)

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.

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  Required

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

PUBLISHER:  Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Managing Business Flow Process

ED./DATE:  2^nd 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 or later, 1992 or later

TERM: Spring 2007

COURSE #:

OPNS 450

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: Analytical Modeling on Spreadsheets

INSTRUCTOR: S. Deshmukh

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.  Good working knowledge of basic Excel is essential to take this course.

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.

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Recommended

AUTHOR: C. Albright and W. Winston

PUBLISHER: Duxbury Press

TITLE: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications

ED./DATE: 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE:

TERM:

Spring 07

COURSE #: 454

SECTIONs:

71

COURSE NAME:

Operations Strategy

INSTRUCTOR: Baris Ata

CASEPACK: YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Check course webpage for updates:

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/VanMieghem/ftp/454/454CoursePage.htm

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, each of them bringing different strengths to the table.  To increase the learning from the skills and knowledge that each person brings to the group, groups must be balanced. 

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

1.  TEXT  --  RECOMMENDED: There is no regular published textbook.  Instead, a preprint of the textbook by Jan Van Mieghem will be part of the casepack.

AUTHOR: J. A. Van Mieghem

PUBLISHER:

TITLE: Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice

ED./DATE: Dec. 2006

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

ED./DATE: