Production Management

• Production systems, including
  • identification of technical
  • economic, social, human components
  • characteristics in the system
• Forecasting techniques
• Inventories, including role, measuring service level, inventory models and their application in distribution and manufacturing
• Aggregate planning of production levels and inventories, including master plan, materials requirements planning (MRP), detailed scheduling and sequencing, assembly line balancing
• Information and control systems for production operations
• Project planning and control

Suggested Reading Materials

Production Operations Management, 6th Edition
Stephenson, J. Williams. CD Rom On-Line Card, McGraw Hill.

Operations Management, 2nd Edition
Stevenson & Hojati. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2004