OPNS 430 All Sections:  ALLON, ATA SAVASKAN, VAN MIEGHEM

COURSE #: 430

SECTION: ALL DAY SECTIONS 61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,

COURSE NAME: OPERATIONS MGT

INSTRUCTORS: Allon, Ata, Savaskan, Van Mieghem

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

Welcome to the first class of the ops core! 

Required materials available at the bookstore:

1.        Coursepack Part I: cases and readings (joint pack for all OPNS 430 sections).

2.        Coursepack Part II: overhead slides.(section-specific pack)

3.        The Goal by Goldratt and Cox. Publisher: North River Press, 2nd edition, 1992

4.        Managing Business Process Flows (MBPF) by Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel. Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2005.

First class assignment:

Read:

·         Textbook MBPF: Chapter 1.

·         Start reading The Goal (there will be an assignment in the 2nd half of the class).

Be prepared to discuss the following questions:

1.        In a business context, what is meant by operations? 

2.        What are the competitive priorities faced by a typical business (service or manufacturing)? 

3.      What role does operations play in achieving these?

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

Required

AUTHOR:

Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel

PUBLISHER:

Prentice Hall

TITLE:

Managing Business Process Flows

ED./DATE:

2nd edition, 2006

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

Required

AUTHOR:

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER:

North River Press

TITLE:

The Goal

ED./DATE:

2nd, 1992

DESHMUKH OPNS 450

TERM: Spring 2007

COURSE #:

OPNS 450

SECTION: 61, 62

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: