Supply Chain Inventory and Production Planning
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Content
- Frameworks for production and inventory planning and management.
- Deterministic and stochastic inventory management.
- Coordinated inventory management in a supply chain.
- Multiple-item inventory, production and procurement problems.
- Periodic and continuous review of inventories.
- Inventories with perishable items.
- Aggregate production and workforce planning.
- Top-down vs. bottom-up planning.
- Material requirements planning: MRP and extensions.
- Short-term production scheduling problems.
Learning goals
- Identify the main problems in production and inventory planning.
- Describe models and methods in production and inventory planning, verbally as well as mathematically.
- Discuss the assumptions and limitations of models and methods in production and inventory planning.
- Relate theoretical models of inventory and production to real life problems.
- Apply models and methods of production and inventory planning to specific problems.
- Discuss the potential applicability of models and methods of production and inventory to specific problems.
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Scheduled classes:
4 hours of lectures weekly during 11 weeks.
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These teaching activities result in an estimated distribution of the work effort of an average student as follows:
Lectures: 44 hours.
Examination regulations
Exam - Individually written report
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Ordinary exam: December. The report is handed-in in December. Deadline for hand-in will appear from the exam plan.
Reexam: February.
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Exam - Individually written report and an oral exam
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Location: Home assignment.
Internet Access: Necessary.
Written report (= the coursework) based on project work done in the last weeks of the semester
The grade for the written report has a weight of 30 % / app. 1/3 of the final grade.
The purpose of the written report is to test the achievement of all objectives.
Supplemental information concerning timing:
Hand-in of the written report or the re-exam is in February for all students.
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The grade for the oral exam has a weight of 70% / app. 2/3 of the final grade.
The oral exam is evaluated externally (internally for guest and exchange students).
The purpose of the oral exam is to test the achievement of all objectives.
Supplemental information concerning timing:
The oral exam is in December for guest and exchange students and in January for all other students.
Re-exam of the oral examination is in February for all students.
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Supplemental information on final grading in the course:
From the grades for the two exam parts, a final course grade is computed as follows: