Operations Management and Logistics

Lecturer:

Michal Kavan (gar.)

Tutor:

Michal Kavan (gar.), Vladimír Brdek, Miroslav Žilka

Supervisor:

Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

The course is designed to provide engineers with the basic information and skills necessary to manage a production system of the enterprise. An emphasis will be placed on the necessary steps in logistics, operating and evaluating of manufacturing process. The topics include: Entrepreneurial characteristics of production systems, logistical competitiveness, productivity and strategy, Japanese methods of improving productivity, recent trends for production systems designing, the significance of logistics planning, production planning and budgeting process and the role of engineering economy, reasons for preparing the manufacturing business plan, decision making in production management, using forecast information in production system, value analysis introduction, processes of manufacturing standardization, material resources and capacity planning, advancement of the production quality systems. Emphasis will be on problem identification and the evaluation of alternative solution strategies.

Requirements:

Requirements for course credit: Attendance, active participation, seminar paper. Test of knowledge from lectures, exercises, and questions from the textbook.

Syllabus of lectures:

Problem areas include: Entrepreneurial characteristics of production system. operations competitiveness, productivity and strategy, Japanese methods of improving productivity, recent trends for logistical systems designing, the significance of logistical planning, production planning and budgeting process, reasons for preparing the manufacturing business plan, decision making in production management, using forecast information in production system, value analysis introduction, processes of manufacturing standardization, material resources and capacity planning, advancement of the production quality systems. Teaching methods will include lectures, group presentations and discussions of cases as well as other exercises. Each student is required to complete the terminal assignment.

1.Introduction, description of the major issues, cost functions

2.Designing and operating production Systems, cost management

3.How much to order: Economic Order Quantity models, lot sizing

4.When to reorder, statistical approach

5.How Much to Order: Fixed-Order-Interval Model

6.Scheduling in high, intermediate, low-volume systems

7.Job and operations standardization

8.Value analyses

9.Kaizen and Poka-Yoke implementations

10.The Master Production Scheduling Techniques

11.Scheduling in Low-Volume Systems

12.Effective projects of distribution channel

13.Document management solutions for Logistics departments

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Introduction of logistics, major issues, practical case

2.Logistical functions within business organizations, cost management

3.Economic Order Quantity calculations, lot sizing

4.Inventory management, uncertainty approach

5.Storehouse space layout, how much to order

6.Scheduling, autonomous student working

7.Supplier chain and distribution channel modelling

8.Practical calculations in logistics, job and operations standardization

9.Monte Carlo applications, value analyses calculations

10.Costs of cooperation enumerations, Poka-Yoke implementations

11.The Master Production Scheduling Techniques, JIT model

12.Effective projects of distribution channel, value analyses

13.Seminar paper presentation, document management for Logistics

Study Objective:

The course is designed to provide engineers with the basic information and skills necessary to manage a production system of the enterprise. An emphasis will be placed on the necessary steps in logistics, operating and evaluating of manufacturing process. The topics include: Entrepreneurial characteristics of production systems, logistical competitiveness, productivity and strategy, Japanese methods of improving productivity, recent trends for production systems designing, the significance of logistics planning, production planning and budgeting process and the role of engineering economy, reasons for preparing the manufacturing business plan, decision making in production management, using forecast information in production system, value analysis introduction, processes of manufacturing standardization, material resources and capacity planning, advancement of the production quality systems. Emphasis will be on problem identification and the evaluation of alternative solution strategies.

Study materials:

Kavan M.: Výrobní a provozní management, Grada Publishing, 2002.

Josef Sixta J, Mačát V.: Logistika - Teorie a praxe, Computer Press, 2008, ISBN 80-251-0573-3

F. Robert Jacobs and Richard B. Chase: Operations and Supply Management, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009, ISBN-10: 0073403334, ISBN-13: 978-0073403335.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	roomKN:A-313 Kavan M. 10:45–12:15 (lecture parallel1) Karlovo nám. Ucebna KA313 (A24)
Tue
Fri	roomKN:B-130 Žilka M. 07:15–08:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Karlovo nám. Učebna KN:B-130roomKN:B-130 Žilka M. 09:00–10:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.102) Karlovo nám. Učebna KN:B-130
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: