TERM: Summer 2005-2006

COURSE #: OPNS-430-0 (TMP)

SECTION: 71 and 72

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR: Achal Bassamboo

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

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

  1. Course Pack: 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.

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 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:Summer 2006

COURSE #: OPNS 438B

SECTION:

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR:  Baris Ata

CASEPACK - 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: Chapter 1

What is Strategy? HBR article by Michael Porter

Start reading the Goal

Consider the following questions:

1.     In a Business context what is meant by operations?

2.     What are the competitive priorities faced by a typical business?

3.     What roles does operations play in achieving these?

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY: YES

1.  TEXT - 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

AUTHOR: Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER: North River Press

TITLE: The Goal

ED./DATE: 2nd Edition, 1992