IELM-6103- Advanced Operations Management
Course Number IELM-6103
Course Title Advanced Operations Management
Degree Program M. Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management
ECTS Credits 3 Credit Points
Lecture Tutorial Practice or Laboratory
Time Distribution (in Hr.)
2 0 3
To learn the basic concepts of operations management,
operation strategy, technological innovations.
To learn the advanced theory and practices of forecasting
Course Objectives
techniques and inventory management
To study the application capacity planning and production
control systems
The student will able to practice the various concepts of
Course Outcome Operations Management which will be useful in modern
industries
Course CHAPTER INTRODUCTION
Description/Course
Production Management – Input-output model, objectives, Trends
Contents
and challenges, value chains, operations strategy, Technological
Innovations in Manufacturing, Corporate strategic choices, Process
planning and selection.
CHAPTERV II FORECASTING
Need for forecasting, the forecasting process, Forecasting
methods- qualitative methods, Quantitative models-Time series
forecasting models, moving averages, exponential smoothing with
trend and seasonal adjustment, multi-item forecasting, Simple and
multiple linear regression models, monitoring and controlling
forecasts.
CHAPTER III INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Types of inventory, Inventory classification methods, Inventory
costs Inventory models- deterministic models, probabilistic
models - safety stock and reorder points – Inventory control
systems.
CHAPTER IV PLANNING ACTIVITIES
Capacity planning- short term and long-term capacity, capacity of
facilities, break even capacity, use of decision trees, aggregate
production planning - strategies, methods, Master Production
Schedule, MRP- lot sizing, MRP II, CRP, ERP.
CHAPTER V PRODUCTION CONTROL ACTIVITIES
Production Activity Control, Just-in-time systems, Scheduling in
Manufacturing, Theory of constraints and synchronous
manufacturing.
Pre-requisites NA
Semester Year 1, Semester I
Mid Term Examination: 25% (Chapter I & II)
Assessment/Evaluation &
Assignments/Project/Presentation: 30 %
Grading System
Final Exam: 45 % (Chapter III, IV & V)
A student must attend 75 % of the lectures and 100 % of the
Attendance Requirements
laboratory exercises
1. Seetharama L.Narasimhan, Dennis W.McLeavey, Peter
J.Billington,“Production Planning and Inventory Control” ,
PHI, 2002.
2. Panneerselvam,R. Production and operations management,
References PHI, 2010.
3. Lee J.Krajewski, Larry P.Ritzman, “Operations
Management”, Pearson Education, 2006.
4. Mahadevan,B. Operations- Theory & Practice, Pearson
Education, 2007