TERM: Winter 2008

COURSE #: OPNS 430

SECTION: 71 & 72

COURSE NAME: Operations Management

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

1. Course Pack: Cases, readings, and overhead slides
2. Textbook: Managing Business Process Flows (MBPF) by Anupindi, Chopra,Van Mieghem and Zemel.
3. The Goal by Goldratt and Cox.

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.

INSTRUCTOR: Sarang Deo

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

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: 2^nd edition, 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED

AUTHOR: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

PUBLISHER: North River Press

TITLE: The Goal

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

TERM: Winter 2007/2008

COURSE #:

 OPNS 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:

ED./DATE: