COURSE #: OPNS 430

SECTION: 61 & 62

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR: Martin Lariviere

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Welcome to first class of ops!  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.        Textbook MBPF: Managing Business Process Flows by Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel. Prentice Hall, 1999.

Read:

· Textbook MBPF: Chapter 1.

·         What is Strategy (if you haven’t read it before)

·         Start reading The Goal (there will be an assignment in Class 15).

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 (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:

First edition, 1999

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:

Required

AUTHOR:

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER:

North River Press

TITLE:

The Goal

ED./DATE:

2^nd, 1992