TERM: Winter 06

COURSE #: OPNS 430

SECTION: 71 & 72

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

INSTRUCTOR: Gad Allon

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Welcome to the first class of ops! Required materials are 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.
4. 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 and Zemel

PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall

TITLE: Managing Business Process Flows

ED./DATE: 2nd edition, 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER: North River Press

TITLE: The Goal

ED./DATE  3rd edition, July, 2004

TERM: Winter 2005/2006

COURSE #: 450

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: Spreadsheets Modeling for Managerial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Savaskan

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: 

Supplementary readings, hard copies of spreadsheet models built in class, homework problems and case assignments.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Read:

“Essential Excel” , “Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling”, “Principles of Spreadsheet Modeling”

Chapters 1 and 2

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?

AUTHOR: W. Winston and C. Albright

PUBLISHER: Duxbury

TITLE:  Practical Management Science: spreadsheet modeling and applications

ED./DATE: Second edition, 2001.

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER:

TITLE:

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