Explores the challenges encountered in the production of goods and services, as well as models and techniques that deal with these problems. The emphasis is on developing analytic insights into a few central models which have proved their usefulness in practice.
Topics include short-term demand forecasting, aggregate production
planning, inventory planning and control, assembly line balancing, job
shop scheduling, project planning, facility layout, warehouse location
and plant expansion.
Last modified 27 Aug 2008