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About the Course

IE 503, Operations Analysis

July 31, 2024

Course Website: Moodle

Class Hours: Monday 10:35-11:30, Tuesday 11:35-12:30, Thursday 8:30-9:25

Class Room: LA002

Teaching Assistants: Debanjan Gangopadhyay ([email protected]), Simran Lakhani


([email protected]), Pulkit Khandelwal ([email protected]), Deepesh Saini
([email protected]), Deepak Naik ([email protected]), Saurabh Mehra ([email protected]),
Sangram ([email protected]), all from IEOR Department.

Office Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 3-4 pm in instructor’s office

Instructor: Ashutosh Mahajan, [email protected], Ph: x-9418, Room 104, IEOR Building;

Priyank Sinha, [email protected], Ph: x-7657, Room 005, IEOR Building

Objectives

The main objectives of the course are

1. to understand some of the complexities of planning industrial operations

2. to model, analyse and solve decision problems using quantitative approaches

Main Topics to Be Covered

Strategic Capacity Planning, Decision Trees, Location Models, Flow capturing Models

Aggregate production Planning, Forecasting

Material requirement Planning, Master Production Schedule, Inventory Models

Work Center Scheduling, theory of constraints, learning curves

Manufacturing Processes

Facility layout

Service Processes, waiting line analysis, process design

Lean manufacturing, JIT, TPM

FMS, Automation in manufacturing systems

Statistical quality control, Total quality management

Project management, CPM, PERT, Cost Crashing, quality control in project management

Basics of supply chain management, transportation systems, and logistics system

Warehousing
Revenue management/distribution channels

Prerequisite

None

Suggested Books

Lectures will be based on materials from the following references. We will follow the first text book
mostly.

1. F. Robert Jacobs, Richard B. Chase, Operations and Supply Chain Management, 15th edition,
McGraw Hill Education.
2. S. Nahmias and T. L. Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, Waveland Press.
3. W. J. Hopp and M. L. Spearman, Factory Physics, Waveland Press.

Additional reading material will be made available during the course.

Attendance
Attendance will not be taken. Still, the students are required to attend the classes. There might
be a few unannounced assessments/tests in the lectures.

Lectures
First 5 minutes of every lecture will be devoted to address doubts/queries from the previous session.
Students will not be allowed to enter the class after 5 minutes of the start of lecture.

Exams
There will be 2-3 quizzes, a mid-semester exam, an end-semester exam. If a student is unavailable
because of an exigency, a makeup exam will be conducted. The student should inform me directly
or through someone before the exam.

Grading
The following is the breakup of final scores
Class Participation 10%
Quiz 20%
Mid-semester Exam 30%
Final Exam 40%

Audit
Grade ‘CC’ or higher is required to successfully audit the course.

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