Course Title: Production Management

Course Objective: The management of production systems has increasingly become complex because of the continuous advancement in information technology, process technology, globalization of the market and operations and interrelationships within the supply-demand chain. This course presents the principles of contemporary production control concepts and technologies that are used by world-class enterprises. Many of the principles that are discussed can be employed by large as well as very small organizations. This course offers a valuable review of different subjects covered by the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) examinations.

Textbook: Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, 4^th ed., Wollman, Berry, and Whybark, IRWIN, 1997.

Core Material (material covered in all sections of this course):

• An understanding of the master and production planning cycle including demand management; an overview of short and medium term forecasting techniques required for master planning.
• Inventory management models and decision rules for different production environment: make-to-stock, assemble-to-order, make-to-order and engineer-to-order.
• An understanding of the master production scheduling techniques, bill of material structuring for the MPS, the final assembly schedule and the administration of the MPS.
• A detailed analysis of the basic MRP system including technical issues such as record processing, lot sizing, low-level coding, pegging etc. An understanding of administration of the MRP system including the role of MRP planner, exception codes, bottom-up replanning and MRP output. A survey of required MRP databases including BOM file, item master file, location file, calendar file and open order file; an overview of closed loop MRP and MRP II.
• An overview of the production activity control, its linkage to MRP, basic shop-floor control concepts, gantt charts, priority sequencing rules, finite loading and lead time management.
• An overview of major components of JIT systems including the pull system and pull system implementation.